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Henryk Wieniawski

Biography

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. 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.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

2,350 releases · 366 albums · active 1950–2025

  • Performance · 2,961
  • Other credits · 52

Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Wiener Musikverein · Henry Wood Hall, London · House Of Artists

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Wieniawski
  • Itzhak Perlman
  • Jascha Heifetz
  • Yehudi Menuhin
  • Michael Rabin
  • David Oistrakh
  • Heifetz

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