Rodolphe Kreutzer Home - Geneva

Rodolphe Kreutzer's home is on Promenade de Saint-Antoine in Geneva, Switzerland.  The famed violin virtuoso was born in 1766 in Versaille and was a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1795 to 1826.  He broke his arm in 1810, which cut short his playing career, but he remained a teacher until his final years.  During his life he wrote 40 operas, but is best remembered for his 42 études.  Kreutzer is also famously remebered as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 (1803), which is also known as the Kreutzer Sonata.  He spent his last days in this home in Geneva, where he died on January 6, 1831.  There is a plaque on the outside of the home honoring Kreutzer's time there.  

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