Émile Sauret

He studied under Charles Auguste de Bériot and later became a student of Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski.

[1] Aged 18, he started studying composition as a pupil of Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he struck up many friendships.

[2] In 1873, Sauret married Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist and composer, by whom he had a daughter, Emilita.

He held posts at a variety of institutions, including the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin - where he wrote the Twelve Études Artistiques for his "beloved students" -, together with Moritz Moszkowski and the Scharwenka brothers, Xaver and Phillipp, and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was appointed a professor of violin of 1890, the Musical College in Chicago in 1903, and the Trinity College in London,[1] an appointment he took up in 1908.

His pupils included Tor Aulin, Jan Hambourg, William Henry Reed, Marjorie Hayward, Leila Waddell,[3] Otie Chew Becker, Florizel von Reuter, Elsie Southgate,[4] Gerald Walenn,[5] John Waterhouse and Ethel Barns.