Eugene Ysaye (1858–1931) is a Belgian violinist, conductor and composer. He was a student at the Liege Conservatory and later he received violin lessons from Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps. From 1883 to 1886 Ysaye worked and lived in Paris, where he maintained creative contacts with leading French composers, Cesar Franck being one of them. The latter dedicated to him his Violin Sonata. In 1886 Ysaye moved to Brussels. He composed six Violin Concertos, variations, a large number of compositions for violin solo. The six famous sonatas for violin solo are amongst them, each one dedicated to a fellow violinist virtuoso. The first honors the Hungarian Joseph Szigetti, the second – the Frenchman Jacques Thibaud, the third – the Romanian George Enescu, the fourth – the Austrian Fritz Chrysler, the fifth – the Belgian Mathieu Crickboom, and the sixth – the Spaniard Manuel Quiroga. In spite of the fact Ysaye lacked formal academic training as a composer, his sonatas are masterfully crafted. They display various dimensions of violinistic expressiveness, the development of instrumental techniques and sonority and, at the same time, provide the listener with a remarkable aesthetic experience.