Kujawiak henryk wieniawski biography

Polish composer, violinist, and pedagogue (1835–1880)

Henryk Wieniawski (pronounced[vʲɛˈɲafskʲi]^ⓘ; 10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history.^[1] His younger brother Józef Wieniawski and nephew Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski were also accomplished musicians, as was his daughter Régine, who became a naturalised British subject upon marrying into the peerage and wrote music under the name Poldowski.

Life

Early life

Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, in present-day Poland.

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His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka né Wolf Helman, was the son of a Jewish barber named Herschel Meyer Helman, from Lublin's Jewish neighborhood of Wieniawa. Wolf Helman later changed his name to Tadeusz Wieniawski, taking on the name of his neighborhood to blend into the Polish environment.

Prior to obtaining his medical degree, he had converted