A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sauret, Emile
SAURET, Emile, violinist, born at Dun le Roi, Cher, France, May 22, 1852, soon attracted the notice of De Bériot, and became his pupil, the last he ever had. He began to travel at an early age, playing in the chief towns of France and Italy, in Vienna and in London, where he made his first appearance at Alfred Mellon's Concerts, Covent Garden, in Aug. 1866. In 1872 he made his first visit with Strakosch to the United States, and his second in 1874, remaining there till Jan. 1876. In New York he made the acquaintance of von Bülow and Rubinstein, and on his return to Leipzig was welcomed by the latter, then engaged in the rehearsals of his 'Paradise Lost.' Sauret made his début in the Gewandhaus in May 1876 in Mendelssohn's Concerto, and was most warmly received. He however returned immediately to America, and it was not till he came back again in 1877, and went through Germany and Austria in two long and most successful tournées, that his reputation was established in his native country. He has played at the Gewandhaus every year since 1876, and is a great and desired favourite with that very critical audience. In Holland also he is well known. In England he reappeared in 1880, and played at the Crystal Palace, April 24, and Philharmonic (Bruch's Concerto No. 1) on the 28th.
Liszt has shown him much kindness, and they have often made music together. In 1879 Sauret married Miss Emma Hotter of Dusseldorf, and since that date has taken up his abode in Berlin, where he is teacher of the violin in Kullak's Academy.
His published works embrace a Concerto in G minor; a Ballade, a Legende; and a Serenade in G—all for solo violin and orchestra; Caprice de Concert in D; Scherzo fantastique; Valse-caprice; Barcarolle-mazurka, and many other drawing-room pieces, as well as transcriptions from Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Wagner, etc.