Kreutzer, Rodolphe (16 November 1766, Versailles; 6 June 1831, Geneva), composer, was the son of a musician in the royal chapel at Versailles. He received his first music lessons from his father and showed a remarkable aptitude for the violin as a child even before he took lessons from Antoine Stamitz. His precocious ability enabled him to give public concerts when he was not yet in his teens. He progressed so far and so rapidly that he played his own work at a spiritual concert in 1779 at age…