Person · Male
Eugène Ysaÿe
Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
- From
- Liège, Belgium
- Active
- 1858–1931
- Releases
- 97
- classical
About
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (French: [øʒɛn iza.i]; 16 July 1858 – 12 May 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".
Member of
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Quatuor Ysaÿe eponymous, violin
Discography
Albums
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Leclair: Sonates à deux violons sans basse op. 3 / Telemann: Sonate canonique n° 1 en sol majeur pour deux violons / Ysaÿe: Première Sonate à deux violons en ut majeur
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Chausson / Saint-Saens / Leclair / Locatelli-Ysaye
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin
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Viuextemps: Violin Concerto no. 5 / Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto no. 3 / Ysaÿe: Sonata for Violin Solo no. 5
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Unaccompanied Violin
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6 Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 27
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Igor Oistrakh Trio / Bach: Trio Sonata No. 1 / Prokofiev: Sonata For Two Violins / Ysayë: Amitié / Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins And Piano
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
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Obsession: 6 sonates pour violin solo, op. 27
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Six sonates pour violon seul
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Solo
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Six Sonatas op. 27 / Rêve d'enfant / Poème élégiaque
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6 Violin Sonatas, op. 27
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Music for Two Violins
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6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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Sonatas for Solo Violin (complete)
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no. 1 / Violin Concerto no. 2 / Ysaÿe: Amitié for 2 Violins
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Vengerov Plays Bach, Shchedrin, Ysaye
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Nos Souvenirs
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Rare Transcriptions for Violin and Piano
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6 sonatas para violín solo, op. 27
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Solo Violin Sonatas
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Sonates pour violon solo
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Bach: Partita no. 2 for Violin Solo / Ysaÿe: Sonata no. 1 for Violin Solo / Bartók: Sonata for Violin Solo
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Sonates n°1, n°3, n°4 pour violon seul / Pièces pour violon et piano
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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6 Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
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Chants d'hiver - Works for Violin & Orchestra
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Sonatas, Op. 27 Nos. 1-6
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Reger: 3 Suites for Cello / Ysaÿe: Sonata for Cello
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Works for Violin and Piano
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String Trio "Le Chimay" / Sonata for Two Violins / Cello Sonata
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Flying Solo
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Saint-Saëns / Chausson / Ysaÿe
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Works for Solo Violin
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Works for Violin Solo
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French Impressions: Works for Violin and Orchestra
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Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
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par.ti.ta
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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Bach & Beyond, Part 1
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Six Sonates pour violon seul, op. 27
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Mister Paganini
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Sonatas for Solo Violin
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Violino solo
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Bach & Ysaÿe 1
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Harmonies du soir
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Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27
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Sonatas for Solo Violin
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Vieuxtemps: Cello Concerto no. 1, op. 46 / Cello Concerto no. 2, op. 50 / Ysaÿe: Méditation, op. 16 / Sérénade, op. 22
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Neiges d'antan
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Dedications
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Ysaÿe: Sonates nos. 5 & 6 / Chausson: Poème
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Six Sonatas for Solo Violin
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Kaleidoscope
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Bach & Ysaÿe 3
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6 Sonatas for Solo Violin
Compilations
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Violin Concerto / Kreutzer Sonata / Encores
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The Complete Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27 / Sonata for Two Violins
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Violon seul
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Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Saint‐Saëns: Violin Concerto no. 3 / Introduction et Rondo capriccioso / Chausson: Poème / Massenet / Ravel / Sarasate / Ysaye
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Violinist (Complete Recordings) & Conductor (Schéhérazade-excerpts)
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Sonatas by Ysaÿe, Leclair, Telemann, Locatelli / Bach: Sarabande / Paganini: Cantabile
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Violin Recital
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Joseph Joachim: The Complete Recordings (1903) / Pablo de Sarasate: The Complete Recordings (1904) / Eugène Ysaÿe: A Selection of His Recordings (1912)
Links
Conductor position
Named after artist
Sibling
Teacher
- Arvo Hannikainen
- Adolph Koldofsky
- William Primrose
- Henryk Wieniawski
- Godfried Devreese
- Louis Persinger
- Oskar Back
- Ernest Bloch
- Josef Gingold
- Mathieu Crickboom
- Jonny Heykens
- Charles Houdret
- Jascha Brodsky
- Oscar Shumsky
- Édouard Deru
- Alberto Bachmann
- Jules Craen
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- Boris Kamensky
- Léon Sametini
Also known as
Eugene Ysaye · Eugene Ysaÿe · Eugène Ysaye · イザイ編 · ウジェーヌ・イザイ
Tags
- belgian composer
- composer
- violinist
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 6df14eaa-212b-4806-833e-4254fa0d6cb4
- ISNI
- 0000000108617425
- IPI
- 00033425607
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