Henri Petri

Henri Willem Petri (5 April 1856 – 7 April 1914) was a Dutch violinist, music pedagogue, composer and arranger.
Life.
Born in Zeist, Petri came from a musical family. His father was hoboist in the urban orchestra of Utrecht, his cousin (1865-1950) was an organist, pianist and music pedagogue and another cousin Martinus Petri (1853-1924) was also a violinist and conductor. He received violin lessons within the family; after his father's death with the concertmaster Dahmen of the . From 1871 to 1874, he studied with Joseph Joachim in Berlin. Presumably, he subsequently studied with Henri Vieuxtemps at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels .
In 1877, Petri gave a solo performance in London. Subsequently, from 1877 to 1881, he was concertmaster at the "Fürstliche Hofkapelle Sondershausen" and from 1881 to 1882 in Hanover. From October 1882, he was concertmaster of the famous Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig. He remained in this position until 1889; he then became "Royal Saxon concertmaster (Königlich Sächsischer Konzertmeister)" at the Dresdner Hofkapelle, (present-day Staatskapelle Dresden) as it was then called.
In addition to being a concertmaster, he also taught at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Among his students were the conductor Willem Mengelberg, the composers Gustav Carl Luders, Margarethe Stern, Dora Pejačević, Arno Starck, and the violinist Franz Spiess. 
Petri worked as a violinist in various chamber music ensembles. Together with Bolland, Thümer and Klengel (later A. Schröder) he formed the Gewandhaus Quartet in Leipzig. In Dresden, he founded his own "Petri Quartet" together with Erdmann Warwas (violin), Alfred Spitzner (viola) and Georg Wille (cello). There is a portrait of this string quartet painted in 1907 by Robert Sterl. 
As an arranger he wrote a large number of arrangements for his instrument, the violin. As a composer he also wrote his own works. Petri became friends with the composer Ferruccio Busoni. He dedicated his second string quartet as well as the violin concerto whose premiere he gave in 1897 with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Busoni himself.
His son Egon Petri (1881-1962) was a pianist.