A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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Vieuxtemps, Henry, born at Verviers, Belgium, Feb. 17th, 1820, died at Mustapha, Algiers, June 6th, 1881. Virtuoso on the violin and composer for his instrument. He displayed a very early liking for the violin, and his father, a soldier retired from the service, encouraged young Henry's natural taste for music by his own performances on the violin. At two years of age he would amuse himself for hours together by rubbing a violin bow across the strings of a small fiddle. At the age of four and a half he began to study music seriously, and was placed under a local teacher named Ledoux, the expense of this tuition being defrayed by an amateur friend of the family, who was astonished at the child's happy disposition for the art. His progress was so rapid that when he was six years old he played one of Rode's concertos in public. Two years later the young prodigy accompanied his master on a tour for the purpose of giving concerts in the principal towns of Belgium. In Brussels he met with De Beriot, who, charmed with his genius and precocious skill, took him in charge, and gave him lessons for several months. In 1830 he went with his new master to Paris, and performed at a concert given
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