Henryk Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski
Photograph by Fritz Luckhardt
Born	(1835-07-10)10 July 1835 Lublin, Congress Poland
Died	31 March 1880(1880-03-31) (aged 44) Moscow, Russian Empire
Occupations	Composer violinist
Era	Romanticism

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.