Jacques Pierre Rode (1774-1830)
- Dixième Concerto (en si mineur) pour le Violon, Op.19 (c.1807), IPR 24
Performers: Friedemann Eіchhοrn (violin); South West German Radio Orchestra; Nicolás Pаsquеt (conductor)
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French violinist and composer. He studied violin with Andre-Joseph
Fauvel (1780-88), making his first public appearance at age 12 in
Bordeaux. He then was taken to Paris by Fauvel and became a pupil of
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1787). He made his first appearance there as
soloist in Viotti's 13th Concerto (1790), and introduced Viotti's 17th
and 18th concertos to the Parisian public (1792). He was also a
violinist in the orchestra of the Theatre de Monsieur (1789-92). In 1795
he was appointed professor of violin at the Paris Conservatory, but
immediately embarked on a tour of Holland and Germany; also appeared in
London, but was exiled (along with Viotti) for political reasons in
1798. He returned to Paris in 1799 and resumed his duties at the
Conservatory; also served as solo violin at the Opera. He became solo
violinist to Napoleon in 1800, and brought out his extraordinarily
successful 7th Violin Concerto. While on his way to Russia in 1803, he
played throughout Germany; served as solo violinist to Czar Alexander I
in St. Petersburg (1804-08). He scored an enormous success in Russia,
but after his return to Paris his playing declined. In 1811-12 he toured
Europe, and while in Vienna he performed Beethoven's Violin Sonata,
op.96 (a score written expressly for him) with Archduke Rudolph (1812).
He returned to France in 1819, but made only a few unsuccessful
appearances in subsequent seasons; a disastrous appearance in Paris in
1828 caused him to abandon the concert stage. At the apex of his career,
he was acclaimed as the foremost representative of the French violin
school. He was also esteemed as a composer. In addition to 13 notable
violin concertos, he composed 12 string quartets (so-called ‘quatuors
brilliants’ with a dominant first violin part), 24 duos for 2 Violins,
24 caprices, airs varies, etc. With Pierre Baillot and Rodolphe
Kreutzer, he wrote the violin method for the Conservatory (1803).
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