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- Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) contributed to the development of violin performance through his innovative virtuosic techniques and popular Spanish characteristics, and his influence on violin performing style remains even in the present day.
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“Sarasate’s virtuosity wins and pleases and surprises the audience continually. He is distinguished, not because he plays great difficulties, but because he plays with them.”
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) contributed to the development of violin performance through his innovative virtuosic techniques and popular Spanish characteristics, and his influence on violin performing style remains even in the present day.
- Chu-Yunn Lee
- 2006
Sep 16, 2024 · Pablo de Sarasate (born March 10, 1844, Pamplona, Spain—died Sept. 20, 1908, Biarritz, France) was a celebrated Spanish violin virtuoso and composer. Beginning his violin studies at the age of five, Sarasate gave his first performance at age eight and later studied at the Paris Conservatory.
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Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) contributed to the development of violin performance. through his innovative virtuosic techniques and popular Spanish characteristics, and his influence. on violin performing style remains even in the present day. He composed virtuosic compositions.
- Chu-Yunn Lee
- 2006
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Born Martín Melitón Sarasate y Navascuéz (or Navascues) on March 10, 1844, he adopted his simpler stage name when he moved to Paris and began his career. Sarasate was a native of Pamplona in Spain's culturally distinctive and musically rich Basque region. His father, Don Miguel Sarasate, was a military bandmaster and part-time violinist who, accord...
At the beginning of his career, Sarasate played mostly the established gems of the violin repertory. His interpretations of the concertos for violin and orchestra of Beethoven and Mendelssohn were well known, and observers generally described his tone as sweet and pure, free of any noise or friction caused by the contact of the bow with the strings...
Sarasate never married; early in life he was cast off by a young woman who agreed to take part in an arranged marriage, and he never got over the rejection. The charismatic violinist, who was a sharp dresser and always paid close attention to his public image, charmed women by presenting them with Spanish fans but then spurned their romantic advanc...
Sadie, Stanley, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., Macmillan, 2001. Slonimsky, Nicolas, editor emeritus, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Schirmer, 2001.
Jan 30, 2016 · The Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) was a great virtuoso performer and a prolific composer of the morceau de genre, or character piece.
His artistic pre-eminence was due principally to the purity of his tone, which was free from any tendency towards the sentimental or rhapsodic, and to that impressive facility of execution that made him a virtuoso.
