Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer was a French violinist and composer, best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. He taught violin at the Paris Conservatoire and left the 42 Études that violin students still use. He also wrote many operas, and Lodoïska, first performed in 1791, was the work that made his name. This site has Ladoiska, a dance on its tune from the mid-nineteenth-century set The Lancers' Quadrilles.