Henri Hammer
See also: Hammer
Henri Marteau is a Violoniste virtuoso and type-setter born with Rheims on March 31st, 1874, and died in Lichtenberg (Franconie) on October 3rd, 1934.
Grandson of the trader, assistant of the mayor of Rheims, Albert Marteau. His/her mother, Clara Louise Dorothée Schwendy, was the pupil of Clara Schumann. It gave its first concert to the circus of Rheims in 1884. Charles Gounod, which attended the living room of his/her parents, wrote for the young virtuoso the Offertoire and an interlude of its Messe to the memory of Jeanne d' Arc , created in 1887 with the cathedral of Rheims. Henri Marteau taught in Rheims until 1900, then with the Conservatoire of music of Geneva, of 1900 to 1908, then with that of Berlin. Because of war, it lost its place and was made Swedish citizen in 1915.
This large virtuoso, still evoked nowadays on France Musics, gave concerts in all Europe and in the United States. He composed forty works and was the subject of a biography published in German, by Günther Weib, in 2002.
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