Léon Roques was a renowned transcriber for works by Claude Debussy and which other Impressionist composer?
Léon Roques Léon Roques (born 24 October 1839 in Aurignac, dead 1923) was a French transcriber who is best known for his transcriptions of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Perhaps his most familiar transcription is for violin and piano of Debussy's piano work "La plus que lente".
Léon Reynier Léon Reynier (11 August 1833, in Saint-Cloud – 5 May 1895, in Paris) was a well known and greatly appreciated French virtuoso violinist. He is said to have been presented by Napoleon III with a richly varnished 1681 orange-reddish Stradivarius. A pupil of Lambert Massart, he was awarded first prize in 1848 at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1875-1879 he became one of the musicians in the French chamber music society "La Trompette" founded in 1860, along with Léon Hollander (2nd violin), Benjamin Godard (viola) and Jules Delsart (violocello).