Rudolphe Kreutzer – Composer

One from another old dead bloke. Kreutzer was a mate of Beethoven who dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 to him. Born 15 November 1766 and died 6 January 1831, Kreutzer as a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La Mort d’Abel (1810).

I was practising reading guitar dots this morning and this one was in the book and I liked the sound of it so thought I would transcribe it for bass but it was immediately apparent that it dropped below the range of a four-string so I transposed it up a third to E Major (which made it a shed load harder to transcribe – serves me right for being a smart-arse). It was originally written for violin. I just thought it would be nice for people to have some nice sounding bass clef classical material to look at the wasn’t the Bach Ceillo Suites. For the record, the book had it listed as Etude No. 1 but apparently it is not Kreutzer’s first Etude but the second.