Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot (12 February 183322 October 1914) was a French pianist, teacher and composer.
He was born in Paris in 1833, the son of the violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot and his then common-law wife, the famed soprano Maria Malibran
(they were to marry when Charles-Wilfrid was three, but his mother died only three months later as a result of a fall from a horse, while pregnant with Charles-Wilfrid's sibling).
His stepmother, Maria Huber, was an orphan who had been adopted by Prince von Dietrichstein, the alleged natural father of Sigismond Thalberg.
Thalberg was one of Charles-Wilfrid's earliest teachers.
He became a professor of piano at the , and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Maurice Ravel and Ricardo Viñes.
His private students included Enrique Granados.
As a teacher, he insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados's own teaching of pedal technique.
He composed four piano concertos.
There is also a Sonata for Two Pianos, Op. 61.
His Flute Sonata, Op. 64 has been recorded.
Many of his scores are preserved at the Ricardo Viñes Piano Music Collection at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Ravel dedicated his "Rapsodie espagnole" to Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot.
He died at Sceaux-du-Gâtinais in 1914, aged 81.
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His field of research was macrocyclic chemistry and metal separation technologies.
André Hekking
André Hekking( 20 July 186614 December 1925) was a French cellist.
Born in Bordeaux, he studied with Charles Auguste de Bériot, touring Spain at fifteen.
In 1909, he settled in Paris to become a teacher of the cello, having in the meantime gained a reputation throughout Europe as a virtuoso.
He joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1918 and became a professor a year later.
He also taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau.
Among his notable pupils were the cellists Juan Ruiz Casaux and Charles Houdret.
He died in Paris.
Hekking was cousin to the cellists Anton Hekking and Gérard Hekking.
Wilfrid Scott-Giles
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Wilfrid de Fonvielle
Wilfrid de Fonvielle( 1824–1914) was a French science writer and balloonist.
He published hundreds of articles for technical and scientific journals such as" L'AérophileLa Naturela Revue ScientifiqueLa Science illustrée", and" L'électricité".
He was editor of" L' Aérophile".
In 1858 he spent two days in a balloon, and in 1869 he traveled 90 km with Gaston Tissandier in 35 minutes.
During the siege of Paris in the Franco- Prussian War, he escaped from the city in a balloon and went to London.
His brothers, Arthur( 1830 – 1914) and Ulrich( 1833 – 1911), were political journalists.
Charles Auguste de Bériot
Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 18028 June 1870) was a Belgian violinist and composer.
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He currently plays for Al- Ittihad, and is a member of the Libya national football team.
Eleni Gabre-Madhin
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Joseph-Ermend Bonnal
Joseph- Ermend Bonnal( 1 July 1880 – 14 August 1944); also" Ermend- Bonnal", alias" Guy Marylis") was a French composer and organist.
Ermend- Bonnal received initial musical instruction from his father, a violinist.
He then studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris under Charles- Wilfrid de Bériot, harmony under Antoine Taudou, composition under Gabriel Fauré and organ under Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne.
He also assisted Charles- Marie Widor at Saint- Sulpice, Albert Périlhou at Saint- Séverin and Charles Tournemire at the Basilica of St. Clotilde.
In 1901, Ermend- Bonnal was appointed Organist at Saint- Médard, and subsequently at Notre Dame in Boulogne- sur- Seine.
In 1920, he was offered a professorship in organ at the University of Strasbourg.
However, he decided instead to accept a position as director of the Bayonne Conservatory, which he held until 1941.
His most famous student was the composer Maurice Ohana.
In 1942, he succeeded his teacher Tournemire at the Cavaillé- Coll Organ at Basilica of St. Clotilde.
The focus of Ermend- Bonnal's musical output is organ music(" Paysages Euskariens", 1930;" Media Vita", organ symphony, 1932).
However, he also wrote in all other musical genres, ranging from children's pieces for piano to symphonies.
Of his chamber music, two string quartets and a string trio especially deserve mention.
He also wrote Ragtimes, One Steps and Tangos under the pseudonym" Guy Marylis".
Ermend- Bonnal had six Children.
Children that are still living today are Marylis Raoul- Duval, the eldest; Mayette Bonnal, and Francoise Bonnal, the youngest.
Palay, Rataboul are some of the successors today.
Ulric de Fonvielle
Ulric de Fonvielle, brother of Wilfrid de Fonvielle,( 11 February 1833, Paris – 1 July 1911, Paris) was a 19th- century French journalist and writer.

Question: Which country Charles-Wilfrid De Bériot's father is from?