Vieuxtemps

[ French vyœ-tahn ]

noun

1. Hen·ri Fran·çois Jo·seph [ah, n, -, ree, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, zhaw-, zef], 1820–81, Belgian violinist and composer.

Example Sentences

Other soloists included the saxophonist Steven Banks, who radiated mellow glamour in the long lines of a Glazunov concerto; the violinist Augustin Hadelich, who dug into the raw strangeness of Ravel’s “Tzigane” and drew out the warm midrange of his Guarneri violin in a relative rarity by Boulogne; and the violinist Joshua Bell, who played pieces by Florence Price and Henri Vieuxtemps in a concert I missed led by Jonathon Heyward, who will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony in 2023.

From New York Times

There’s a rough edge to the sound on the lowest string of the “Vieuxtemps” Guarneri del Gesù, one of the world’s most prized instruments, which is on a lifetime loan to the violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.

From New York Times

There are plenty of stories about people who loved their violins so much that they wanted to be buried with them — like the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, whose Guarneri actually rode behind him in his funeral cortège.

From Washington Post

For her last recording, she dove back into her childhood with the fourth violin concerto of Henri Vieuxtemps, a 19th-century Belgian violinist.

From Washington Post

The dazzling fingerboard gymnastics in Ysaÿe’s “Saint-Saëns Caprice,” the Szymanowski “Mythes” and the Vieuxtemps encore were dispatched with the cleanest articulation and no sense of struggle.

From Washington Post