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 | | There is beauty, challenge, and yes, perfection that set apart Bach’s six suites for unaccompanied violin (three sonatas and three partitas) and hold performers and audiences alike in awe. |
 | | Following a 1924 performance of one of these works by famed virtuoso Joseph Szigeti, one of the world’s great violinists, Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), felt compelled to shut himself in his room and in 24 hours sketch out his own highly original six solo sonatas. |
 | | Completed shortly thereafter, each was dedicated to a prominent virtuoso of the day: Hungarian Joseph Szigeti, Frenchman Jacques Thibaud, Rumanian Georges Enesco, Austrian Fritz Kreisler, fellow Belgian and student Mathieu Crickboom, and Spaniard Manuel Quiroga. |
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