Charles Auguste de Bériot

Charles Auguste de Bériot (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl oɡyst də beʁjo]; 20 February 1802 – 8 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist, artist and composer.

Charles de Bériot was born in 1802 in Leuven, France (now part of Belgium) into a noble family but was orphaned at the age of nine.

De Bériot began studying violin with Tiby, who trained him in the French style as exemplified by Giovanni Battista Viotti.

[2] This mistake is attributed to the advanced age at which Fétis wrote his final biographical note on de Bériot.

[6] The latter encouraged de Bériot to "..listen a lot...and take what seems good to you, be like the bees and you will create a genre..."[7] After being refused a subsidy by William I of the Netherlands, he returned briefly to Belgium in 1822.

In much of northern Europe the two virtuoso's playing styles were often compared, including in a small publication which appeared in 1831.

De Bériot composed a great amount of violin music including ten concertos.

De Bériot's pioneering violin technique and Romantic style of composition make his concertos and etudes an important stepping stone for the serious violin student wishing to gain a firm foundation before studying the major concertos of the Romantic era.

Barbara Barber also released a recordings and sheet music with piano accompaniment of the first movement of de Beriot's Concerto No.