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2 unusual facts about Pierre Rode


Pierre Rode

These, as well as the 24 Caprices in all the major and minor keys (which have been recorded by Oscar Shumsky), were written during 1814-1819 when he lived in Berlin.

Pierre-Jean Garat

At the beginning of the Revolution he accompanied Rode to England, where the two musicians appeared together in concerts.


42 études ou caprices

Together with Pierre Baillot and Pierre Rode, he was at the center of the development of the French school of violin playing around the turn of the 19th century, which defined much of the 19th-century (and hence the modern) approach to playing the violin.

Hungarian violin school

Böhm studied in Budapest, with his father, and with Pierre Rode (probably when he was in Russia), so he is the link between the French school (an evolution of the Italian school through Viotti) and the Hungarian one.


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