Henri Wieniawski

✶July 10, 1835

†March 31, 1880

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Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. 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.

Russian-Polish musician (1835–1880)

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Biography from the article Henri Wieniawski on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.