rcia married M. Viardot, director of the Italian Opera at Paris,
and De Beriot espoused Mlle. Huber, daughter of a Viennese magistrate,
and ward of Prince Dietrischten Preskau, who had adopted her at an early
age.

De Beriot became identified with the Royal Conservatory of Music at
Brussels in the year 1840, and thenceforward his life was devoted to
composition and the direction of the violin school. He gave much time
and care to the education of his son Charles, who, in addition to a
wonderful resemblance to his mother, appears to have inherited much of
the musical endowment of both parents. Had not an ample fortune rendered
professional labor unnecessary, it is probable that the son of Malibran
and De Beriot would have attained a musical eminence worthy of his
lineage; but he is even now celebrated for his admirable performances
in private, and his musical evenings are said to be among the most
delightful entertainments in Parisian society, gathering the most
celebrated artists and _litterateurs_ of the great capital.

De Beriot ceased giving public concerts after taking charge of the
violin classes of the Brussels Conservatoire, though he continued to
charm select audiences in private concerts. Many of his pupils became
distinguished players, among whom may be named Monasterio, Standish,
Lauterbach, and, chief of all, Henri Vieuxtemps, with whose precocious
talents he was so much pleased that he gave him lessons gratuitously.
During his life at Brussels, and indeed during the whole of his
career, De Beriot enjoyed the friendship and esteem of many of the
most distinguished men of the day, among his most intimate friends and
admirers having been Prince de Chimay, the Russian Prince Youssoupoff,
and King Leopold I, of Belgium. The latter part of his life was not
un-laborious in composition, but otherwise of affluent and elegant ease.
During the last two years his eyesight failed him, and he gradually
became totally blind. He died, April 13, 1870, at the age of
sixty-eight, while visiting his friend Prince Youssoupoff at St.
Petersburg, of the brain malady which had long been making fatal inroads
on his health.

In originality as a composer for the violin, probably no one can surpass
De Beriot except Paganini, who exerted a remarkable modifying influence
on him after he had formed his own first style. His works are full
of grace and poetic feeling, and worked out with an intellectual
completeness of form which gives