Eugène Ysaÿe. La musique pour vivre

This publication, which is aimed at both specialists and music lovers, also offers a timeline, a detailed list of works dedicated to Ysaÿe, as well as the updated version of the works and students appendices.

As a continuation of the biography “À la redécouverte d’Eugène Ysaÿe” published by Brepols in French in 2019, this book renews our perception of this emblematic personality of Belgian and international musical life from the 1880s and for five decades. Indeed, the career of this star violinist, composer, pedagogue, conductor and concert organizer is evoked here in a renewed and original way through various themes: his youth, his family, his masters, his repertoire, his concert partners, his musical circle (Bloch, Busoni, Casals, Chausson, Cortot, Debussy, Enescu, Fauré, Franck, Grieg, d’Indy, Kreisler, Lekeu, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns…), his compositions, his concert society of the “Concerts Ysaÿe”, his students, his tours in Europe, the United States and the Russian Empire, his privileged ties with his brother Théo, his American stay, but also his relationship with women, his music library, his readings , his violins as well as his affinities with writing and poetry.