 Fauré dedicated his A major sonata of 1875/6 to him.Viardot's recordings are rare, partly because they were poorly engineered; but they suggest an example of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing in its rather tight phase, before the loosening and relaxing influence of Eugène Ysaÿe.Manuel García "(Manuel del POPOLO RODRIGUEZ dit GARCIA)" (1775–1832)