Wieniawski, Henryk
Born: Jul 10, 1835 AD
Died: 1880 AD, at 44 years of age.
Nationality: Polish
Categories: Composers, Violinist
Died: 1880 AD, at 44 years of age.
Nationality: Polish
Categories: Composers, Violinist
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski was born on July 10th in Lublin. Polish violinist and composer.
1850 - He returned to the Paris Conservatory and was joined by his brother Josef, where both studied composition.
1851 - Henryk Wieniawski began his career as a virtuoso in earnest, spending some three years in Russia giving concerts and writing music for his own use.
1853 - In most of his early compositions, including the violin Concerto in F-sharp minor, he put emphasis on technical difficulty and virtuoso effects. They were performance pieces which he composed with himself as a performer in mind.
1860 - The relatively stable period of his residence in St. Petersburg yielded the finest of his compositional works: Etudes-caprices op.18, Polonaise Brillante op.21, and the Second Violin Concerto in D-minor.
1872 - After his last contract in St. Petersburg had run its course, he resumed the life of the traveling virtuoso with a two-year tour of North America.
1875 - Accepted a position of the professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatory but still maintained an extensive calendar of traveling and perfoming engagements.
1877 - Exhausting concert tours of the United States of America were followed by appointment as successor to Vieuxtemps at Brussels Conservatory, where he taught.
1880 - He died of an aggravated heart condition on March 31st, in Moscow, in the midst of yet another concert tour. He was forty five at the time of his death.
1850 - He returned to the Paris Conservatory and was joined by his brother Josef, where both studied composition.
1851 - Henryk Wieniawski began his career as a virtuoso in earnest, spending some three years in Russia giving concerts and writing music for his own use.
1853 - In most of his early compositions, including the violin Concerto in F-sharp minor, he put emphasis on technical difficulty and virtuoso effects. They were performance pieces which he composed with himself as a performer in mind.
1860 - The relatively stable period of his residence in St. Petersburg yielded the finest of his compositional works: Etudes-caprices op.18, Polonaise Brillante op.21, and the Second Violin Concerto in D-minor.
1872 - After his last contract in St. Petersburg had run its course, he resumed the life of the traveling virtuoso with a two-year tour of North America.
1875 - Accepted a position of the professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatory but still maintained an extensive calendar of traveling and perfoming engagements.
1877 - Exhausting concert tours of the United States of America were followed by appointment as successor to Vieuxtemps at Brussels Conservatory, where he taught.
1880 - He died of an aggravated heart condition on March 31st, in Moscow, in the midst of yet another concert tour. He was forty five at the time of his death.
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