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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Austrian classical violinists, Leopold Mozart, Ludwig Minkus, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Luigi von Kunits, Fritz Kreisler, Hugo Riesenfeld, Max Rostal, Arnold Rose, Alma Rose, Willi Boskovsky, Giora Bernstein, Hugo Kauder, Eduard Melkus, Walter Weller, Jakob Dont, Thomas Zehetmair, Rudolf Kolisch, Ignaz Vitzthumb, Julian Rachlin, Walter Barylli, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Franz Clement, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Erika Morini, Norbert Brainin, Erich Gruenberg, Leopold Jansa, Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., Oskar Adler, Georg Hellmesberger, Sr., Alice Harnoncourt, Georg Hellmesberger, Jr., Felix Khuner, Wolfgang David, Felix Galimir, Hermann Graedener, Adolf Rebner, Franz Asplmayr, Heinrich Proch, Rainer Kuchl, Ludwig Straus, Johannes Wildner, Matthias Durst, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Rudolf Fitzner, Carl Heissler, Franz Amon. Excerpt: Ludwig Minkus () a.k.a. Leon Fyodorovich Minkus (1826-1917) was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher. Minkus is most noted for the music he composed while serving as Ballet Composer of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia, where he wrote for the original works and revivals of the renowned Ballet Masters Arthur Saint-Leon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer's most celebrated compositions for these Ballet Masters were La Source (1866; composed jointly with Leo Delibes), Don Quixote (1869); and La Bayadere (1877). During his career Minkus wrote a substantial amount of supplemental material for insertion into already existing ballets. Among these pieces, Minkus is most noted for the Grand Pas classique, Pas de trois and Mazurka des enfants written for Marius Petipa's 1881 revival of the ballet Paquita. Today, Minkus's ballet music is some of the most popular and performed in all of ballet, and is a most integral part of the traditional c...
