Isidore Bertheaume (c.1752-1802) - Symphonie concertante pour deux violons (1787)

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Composer: Isidore Bertheaume (c.1752-1802)
Work: Symphonie concertante pour deux violons, Oeuvre VI (1787)
Performers: Pierre Doukan (1927-1995, violin); Robert Gendre (violin); Orchestre de Chambre Louis de Froment; Louis de Froment (1921-1994, conductor)

Symphonie concertante pour deux violons (1787)
1. Allegro moderato 0:00
2. Tempo di minuetto 10:44

Drawing: Charles-Etienne Le Guay (1762-1846) - La danse champêtre
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Isidore (Julien) Bertheaume [Berthéaume, Berthaume]
(Paris, c.1752 - St Petersburg, 19 or 20 March 1802)

French violinist and composer. The nephew and pupil of the violinist Lemière l’aîné, he was a child prodigy whose performances of his own works and those of Gaviniès, Lolli and Felice Giardini caused a sensation at 19 appearances at the Concert Spirituel during the years 1761 and 1765-69; he continued to be a favourite soloist there, appearing on 31 occasions between 1775 and 1790, when the concerts ended. He also studied with Lemière’s teacher Gaviniès. In 1767, he joined the Orchestra of the Paris Opera and became its first violin in 1774. Then in 1788, he was appointed concertmaster of the Opéra-Comique orchestra. Between 1788 and 1791, he conducted the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel. In 1791 Bertheaume left France and held several posts in northern Germany until 1801. Via Copenhagen and Stockholm he emigrated to Russia, where he became first violin in the tsar's court orchestra. He died a few months after arriving at St-Petersburg. Among Bertheaume's numerous pupils were Jean-Jacques Grasset and his nephew Charles Philippe Lafont.