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Born:
16 February
1774
— Bordeaux
— France
Died:
25 November
1830
— Château de Bourbon near Damazon
— France
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Music
Rode wrote 13 violin concertos and many other works for violin.
Life
The violinist and composer Pierre Rode studied under Viotti in Paris (1787). In 1794 he began to tour abroad. He became professor at the conservatory in Paris, and met Boccherini in Spain (1799). Rode was violinist to Napoleon in 1800, and went St. Petersburg in 1803 with Boieldieu till 1808. Then he went to Germany and Vienna. In 1814 he married and settled in Berlin, but soon went back to Bordeaux.
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