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See also:EUGENE See also:YSAYE (1858— ) , Belgian violinist, was See also:born at See also:Liege, where he studied with his See also:father and under R . Massart, at the See also:Conservatoire, until he was fifteen; he had some lessons from See also:Wieniawski, and later from Vieuxtemps . In 1879 See also:Ysaye played in See also:Germany, and next See also:year acted as See also:leader of Bilse's See also:orchestra in See also:Berlin; he appeared in See also:Paris in 1883, and for the first See also:time in See also:London at a Philharmonic See also:concert in 1889 . He was See also:violin See also:professor at the See also:Brussels Conservatoire from 1886 to 1898, and instituted the celebrated orchestral concerts of which he was manager and conductor . Ysaye first appeared as conductor before a London See also:audience in 1900, and in 1907 conducted Fidelio at Covent See also:Garden . The See also:sonata concerts in which he played with Raoul Pugno (b . 1852), the See also:French pianist, became very popular in Paris and Brussels, and were notable features of several London concert seasons . As a violinist he ranks with the finest masters of the See also:instrument, with extraordinary See also:tempera-See also:mental See also:power as an interpreter . |
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