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'''Nicolas Lambert Wéry ''' (9 May 1789 - 6 October 1867) was a Belgian violinist and violin teacher active in France and Belgium.
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'''Nicolas Lambert Wéry ''' (9 May 1789 - 6 October 1867) was a Belgian violinist and violin teacher active in France and Belgium.  He was the first violin teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory as well as its French and Dutch forerunners.
  
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==

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Nicolas Lambert Wéry (9 May 1789 - 6 October 1867) was a Belgian violinist and violin teacher active in France and Belgium. He was the first violin teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory as well as its French and Dutch forerunners.

Biography

Nicolas Lambert Wéry was born in Huy, Belgium and began studying violin at an extremely young age with Charles Delhaise. From 1805 to 1807 he studied violin in Liège with Léonard-Joseph Gaillard. In 1807 Wéry was forced to end his studies due to obbligatory military service in the French army. His regiment was stationed in Metz, France but after about a year he was authorized to return to his family. After two months in Huy he decided to return to Metz to establish himself as a musician. Wéry performed in various towns while travelling to Metz and upon arriving at Sedan, France, decided to take advantage of the professional possibilities there and made it his home. He lived in Sedan until 1822, the while time travelling periodically to Paris to study with Pierre-Marie-François de Sales Baillot. After leaving Sedan he moved briefly to Paris where he was named the director of concerts at Wauxhall where he performed his first violin concerto but left the city soon ater upon learning that the position of first violin to the king of the Netherlands, which at that time also included Belgium, had become free. Wéry obtained the position with the support of the Prince of Chimay as well as the minister of public education. Wéry taught at the forerunners of the current Brussels Royal Conservatory from 1822 until 1832 and at the newly founded conservatory from 1832 until 1860. Wéry published more than 50 works and François-Joseph Fétis refers to others in manuscript which have not been located. While his playing and teaching were well respected by his colleagues and the press, he was viewed as slightly old school in comparison with his colleagues Lambert-Joseph Meerts and Charles-Auguste de Bériot. In 1837 he purchased a Stradivarius violin of which we have no trace. He gave frequent concerts in his home beginning in the 1850's and continuing until his death. In 1857 he received the Sainte-Hélène medal from the French government for his military service as well as being a knight in the Order of Léopold. The records of the Brussels conservatory show that Wéry had intended to continue teaching longer but his repeated demands for a higher salary, which were always refused, led to his retirement in 1860. Various letters and records in the conservatories library and archives point to conflict between Wéry and the director François Joseph Fétis. Most likely Fétis saw Wéry's presence as a symbol of the former French and Dutch governments and as an outdated style. Wéry continued to teach privately until his death in 1867. The majority of his works can be found in the library of the Brussels conservatories and many works are in the private library of the Prince of Chimay.

Teaching

  • 1822-1827 - École de chant (forerunner of the Brussels conservatory established under Napoleon's rule)
  • 1827-1832 - École royale de musique (forerunners of the Brussels conservatory established under Dutch rule)
  • 1834-1860 - Conservatoire royale de musique de Bruxelles
    • 1832-1860 - Professeur de violon
    • 1834-1860 - Directeur de la classe d'ensemble pour instruments à cordes

Pieces de concours

  • Concours de violon 6 août 1834 (BBc ARC-M-85)
  • Concours de violon 1859, Classe de M. Wery (BBc ARC-M-87)
  • Concours de violon 1860, Classe de M. Mery (BBc ARC-M-94)

Notable Students

  • Jean-Baptiste Colyns - Teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory from 1863-1902
  • Jean-Baptiste Singelée - First violinist of the Brussels Opera
  • Alphonse Rancy - Teacher at the Imperial Conservatory of Saint Petersburg

Works

Works with opus numbers

  • 1 – 1er Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de second violon alto et basse (BBc 25105(1))
  • 3 – 2ème air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de second violon, alto et basse ou de piano (BBc 25105(2))
  • 4 – 3ème Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de second violon, alto et basse, ou de piano (BBc 25105(3))
  • 5 – 4ème air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de second violon, alto et basse (BBc 25105(4))
  • 6 – Deuxième concerto pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre (BBc 5847)
  • 7 – 5ème Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de violon, alto violoncelle ou de piano (BBc 25105(5))
  • 8 – Menuet de l’opéra Don Juan de Mozart, sixième air varié pour le violon (NL Hk)
  • 9 – 7ème Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement de second violon, alto et basse ou de piano (BBc 25105(6), 43592)
  • 10 – 8ème Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(7), 43593)
  • 12 – 20 Exercices pour violon (BBc 8949, 43594)
  • 13 – 10ème Air varié pour violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(8))
  • 14 – Rondo sur un chant de l’ouverture de Robin des bois pour violon avec accompagnement d’orhcestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(9))
  • 15 – Introduction et Rondo pour le violon (BBr Mus. 23.421 C)
  • 16 – 50 Variations sur la gamme ou études pour violon (BBc 8950)
  • 17 – Rondo précédé d’un récitatif pour violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(10))
  • 19 – 12 Études pour violon (BBc 8951)
  • 20 – Onzième air varié pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou piano (BBc 25105(11))
  • 24 – Adagio et rondo pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou piano (BBc 25105(12))
  • 26 – Quinzième air varié pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre (BBc 25105(13))
  • 27 – Seizième air varié pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(15))
  • 28 – Études mélodiques pour violon avec accompagnement d’un 2e violon (BBc 8952)
  • 29 – Fantaisie pour violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou le piano (BBc 25105(15))
  • 30 – Duo concertant pour deux violons (BBc 39967)
  • 31 – Duo pour violon seul (BBc 8953)
  • 32 – Morceau de salon Fantaisie pour piano et violon (BBc 25105(17))
  • 33 – 17e Air varié pour violon, avec accompagnement de piano (BBc 25105(25105(18))
  • 34 – 3 Études caractéristiques pour violon (BBc 8954)
  • 35 – Duo pour deux violons (F Pn)
  • 36 – 30 Variations ou études pour violon avec accompagnement d’un 2e violon ad libitum (BBc 8955)
  • 37 – Introduction et Polonaise pour violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre ou de piano (BBc 25105(16))
  • 38 – 3 Duos concertants pour deux violons (F Pn)
  • 39 – Andante suivi d’un rondo pour violon, avec accompagnement de piano (BBc 25105(14))
  • 40 – Nouveau variations sur la gamme (F Pn)
  • 41 – Duo concertant pour deux violons (F Pn)
  • 44 – 70 Préludes pour le violon dans les tons majeurs et mineurs (BBc8956)
  • 45 – Rêverie morceau de salon pour violon avec accompagnement de piano (F Pn)
  • 47 – 10 Préludes et huit exercices pour le violon (F Pn)

Works without opus numbers

  • La Fleur! Romance (F Pn)
  • Parlon plus bas! Nocturne à deux voix (F Pn)
  • Sans l'oublier on peut fuir ce qu'on aime (BBr Ms II 3365 (2), Mus. 22.995 B 7)

Unlocated works

  • Opus 2
  • Opus 11 - 9ème air varié
  • Opus 18
  • Opus 21
  • Opus 22
  • Opus 23
  • Opus 25
  • Opus 42 - 3 Duos pour deux violons
  • Opus 43 - 6 Études
  • Opus 44 - 70 Préludes
  • Opus 46

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