Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot

He was born in Paris in 1833, the son of the violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot and his then common-law wife, the famed soprano Maria Malibran[1][2] (they were to marry when Charles-Wilfrid was three, but his mother died only three months later as a result of a fall from a horse, while pregnant with Charles-Wilfrid's sibling).

His stepmother, Maria Huber, was an orphan who had been adopted by Prince von Dietrichstein, the alleged natural father of Sigismond Thalberg.

[4] He became a professor of piano at the École Niedermeyer, and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Maurice Ravel and Ricardo Viñes.

As a teacher, he insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados's own teaching of pedal technique.

[8] Many of his scores are preserved at the Ricardo Viñes Piano Music Collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder.