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In 1973 Arthur Grumiaux was created a baron by King Baudouin of Belgium for his services to music; he shared the title of Baron with Paganini.
He was an extremely adaptable player who sounded equally at home in concertos,duo sonatas and chamber music, although it was the latter that he.

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The eminent Belgian violinist, Baron Arthur Grumiaux (French: [gʁy'mjo], was born to a working-class family in the Belgian town of Villers-Perwin. It was his grandfather, who ran a sheet music shop, who started him on the violin before he was 4 and introduced him to the concert stage a year later, thus precipitating another 20^th-century violinist’s long and illustrious career. The next year he was admitted to the Charleroi Conservatoire (he entered the conservatoire at the age of 6; the normal entry age was 11), where he studied violin and piano with Fernand Quinet and took first prizes in both instruments when he left aged 11. His proficiency in the two instruments, mirroring that of Kreisler, Heifetz and George Enescu before him, was later demonstrated in (now reissued) recordings of Johannes Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 2 and W.A. Mozart's Violin Sonata K. 481, where he plays both parts. Further violin studies followed at Royal Conservatoire in Brussels, where a huge commitment was demanded of Grumiaux as he was tutored by Alfred Dubois, a pupil of Eugène Ysaÿe

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the competition rebounded to become one of the most rigorous and important in the field of music. It is also significant to note that the "Premio Paganini" was one of the founding members of the World Federation for Musical Competitions that began in 1957. Much credit goes to Luigi Cortese, artistic director for an impressive 21 years, who played a fundamental role in bringing international recognition to the event. He was aided by the dedication and efforts of Carlo Marcello Rietmann, Mario Ruminelli, Lazzaro Maria De Bernardis and Renato De Barbieri. In this period, violin competitions around the world saw the dominance of the Russian school and the "Premio Paganini" was no exception: Gyorgy Pauk and Gérard Poulet, winners ex aequo of the competition, the only time in the history of the event in which two participants were granted first prize

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Few violinists have made the art of violin playing appear as effortless as Arthur Grumiaux. The ﬂowing elegance of his bow strokes and his supreme left-hand precision combined to create the epitome of a classical violinist. His impact on modern concepts of interpretative purity was incalculable.

PEDAGOGICAL BACKGROUND

Grumiaux’s ﬁrst teacher was his maternal grandfather, who encouraged him with a quarter-size instrument. Within no time he was playing short pieces and demonstrating evidence of perfect pitch, and aged ﬁve he made his ﬁrst public appearance. In 1927 he entered the Charleroi Conservatoire, ahead of the normal minimum age by ﬁve years. His natural ﬂair for both violin and piano comfortably survived the less than inspired training he received there, and aged just eleven he won the ﬁrst prize.

The following year he began his advanced studies at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels with Alfred Dubois (1898–1949), a former Ysaÿe pupil whose noble demeanour was to have