Joseph Lambert Massart was a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

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He was born in Liège, Belgium. Despite being sponsored by the king, he was not accepted at the Paris Conservatoire because of his foreign status. He became a private pupil of Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...

. Nevertheless, he was accepted as a Professeur at the Paris Conservatoire in 1843, where he subsequently taught for 47 years.

He performed Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata

Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata, is a violin sonata which Ludwig van Beethoven published as his Opus 47...

 with Liszt

Liszt

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Among his students were Fritz Kreisler

Fritz Kreisler

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

, Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

, Henryk Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...

, Alfred De Sève

Alfred De Sève

Alfred De Sève was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H...

, Isidor Lotto, Teresina Tua, and Charles Martin Loeffler

Charles Martin Loeffler

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Massart has been credited with the origination of the systematic vibrato. He compiled 'The Art of Working at Kreutzer's Etudes' (Alphonse Leduc A.L. 9220 No 239), a supplement that contains 412 fingerings and bowings taken from his time studying with Kreutzer.

Massart was also an excellent quartet

String quartet

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 player and gave many delightful chamber concerts, with his wife, who was a pianist. http://www.closelinks.com/summary.php?id=2213&name=Lambert%20Joseph%20Massart

Massart died in Paris

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in 1892.