Pablo de Sarasate looked every inch the 19th-century virtuoso. Impeccably dressed, with a finely trimmed moustache, he carried himself with aristocratic poise. He commanded the room before he even played a single note. Audiences who heard him perform on his

Imagine a dapper Spaniard with a meticulously trimmed moustache, a Stradivarius violin tucked under his chin, and a flair for making audiences swoon with every flick of his bow. That’s Pablo de Sarasate, the 19th-century violinist and composer whose music

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908), alongside Henryk Wieniawski, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaye, and countless others, was part of a group of violin virtuosi that decidedly contributed to the development of instrumental music as both performers and composers. But what is more,

The Hungarian violinist and teacher Carl Flesch writes in his Memoirs, “for all who played the violin during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Pablo de Sarasate was a magical name, and even more: he stood for aesthetic moderation,

The violin virtuosos of the 19th century were the rock stars of their day – they commanded the audiences, their latest appearances were awaited on with bated breath, and their wild playing inspired their audiences to awe. A modern virtuoso