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CHARLES AUGUSTE DE BERIOT (18cn-187o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES AUGUSTE DE See also:BERIOT (18cn-187o)  , Belgian violinist and composer . Although not definitely a See also:pupil of See also:Viotti or Baillot he was much influenced by both . He was very successful in his See also:concert See also:tours, and held appointments at the courts of See also:Belgium and See also:France . From 1843 to 1852 he was See also:violin See also:professor at the See also:Brussels See also:conservatoire . Then his eyesight began to fail, and in 1858 he became See also:blind . His compositions are still often played, and are See also:good, clean displays of technique .

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