Poland, Wieniawski, International Competition, violinist, Polish, Jewish

Description: This medal is a part of my Polish medals collection Visit my page with the offers, please. You will find many interesting items related to this subject. If you wish to see other related medals, click here, please; Music Chopin Poland; History Judaica, Jewish related Holocaust The huge medal has been minted to commemorate the VI International Competitions of the Young Violinists in Lublin, in 1994. Henri Wieniawski (10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish composer and violinist. This medal has been designed by the outstanding Polish medalist, Anna Beata Wątróbska – Wdowiarska. av. The portrait of H. Wieniawski; the dates 1835 -1880 and Karol Lipinski; the dates 1780 - 1861; the portraits of 7 other musicians and composers; rv. The portrait of the members of the Henri Wieniawski Association in Poland diameter – 90 mm (3½“) weight – 244.10 gr, (8.61 oz) metal – bronze, mint patina Henri Wieniawski Born in Lublin, a Polish city under Russian rule at the time, his talent for playing the violin was recognized early on, and in 1843 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. After graduation, Wieniawski toured extensively, giving many recitals on which he was often accompanied by his brother Józef on piano. In 1847 Henryk Wieniawski published his first opus, a Grand Caprice Fantastique, the start of a modest but important catalog of 24 opus numbers. When his engagement to Isabella Hampton was opposed by her parents, Wieniawski wrote Légende, Opus 17, and this work helped the parents change their mind and the couple married in 1860. At the invitation of Anton Rubinstein, Wieniawski moved to St. Petersburg, where he lived from 1860 to 1872, teaching many violin students and leading the orchestra and string quartet of the Russian Musical Society. From 1872 to 1874 Wieniawski toured the United States with Rubinstein. In 1875 Wieniawski replaced Henri Vieuxtemps as violin professor at the conservatory at Brussels. During his residence in Brussels, Wieniawski's health was in obvious decline, often stopping him in the middle of concerts. He gave a farewell concert in Odessa on April 1879 and died from a heart attack the following year in Moscow. He is interred in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. Henryk Wieniawski was considered a violinist of genius and wrote some of the most important works in the violin repertoire, including two extremely difficult violin concertos, the second of which (D minor, 1862) is more often performed than the first (F# minor, 1853). His "L'Ecole Moderne, 10 Etudes-Caprices" is a very well-known and required work for aspiring violinists. His Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op. 16 and Légende, Op. 17 are also frequently performed works. He also wrote two popular mazurkas for solo violin and piano accompaniment (the second one, "Obertass", in G Major), using techniques such as left-hand pizzicato, harmonics, large leaps, and many double stops. . But what is sometimes called the "Russian bow grip" ought to be called the "Wieniawski bow grip": Wieniawski taught his students his own kind of very stiff bowing that allowed him to play a "devil's staccato" with ease. The first violin competition named after Wieniawski took place in Warsaw in 1935, and the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition has been held every five years since 1952. Karol Józef Lipiński Karol Józef Lipiński (October 30, 1790 – December 16, 1861) was a Polish virtuoso violinist and composer. He was born in Radzyń Podlaski. In 1810 he became the first violin and two years later the conductor of the opera orchestra at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). In 1817 he went to Italy in the hope of hearing Niccolò Paganini. The two met in Milan, met daily to play,and even performed two concerts together in April 1818, which added immensely to Lipinski's reputation. Paganini dedicated his Op. 10 to Lipinski. In 1818 on his return to Germany he stopped in Trieste to receive instructions from Dr Mazzurana, a very elderly former pupil of Giuseppe Tartini; Mazzurana was ninety years old, and could no longer play himself, but gave his criticism of Lipinski's performance of one of Tartini's sonatas. In 1820 he travelled to Berlin where he met Louis Spohr, and to Russia. In 1829 he again met Paganini in Warsaw, and they played a series of concerts that summer that were attended by nineteen-year-old Frédéric Chopin; but a rivalry developed which destroyed their friendship. In 1835-36 he went on a long tour, during which in Leipzig he met Robert Schumann. Schumann was so impressed that, as well as describing Lipinski as the greatest violinist of his age, he dedicated "Carnaval", Op.9 to him. In 1836 he visited England and played his Military Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In June 1839 Lipinski received a double appointment in Dresden, as concertmaster of the Royal Oratory and capellmeister at the court chapel. With his Dresden duties he ceased touring as a virtuoso, but concentrated on chamber music, with a special devotion to the string quartets of Beethoven. Here he also gave a joint recital with Liszt, performing Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. He developed a great reputation as the only serious rival to Paganini. Wieniawski dedicated to him his Polonaise Brillant in D. H He retired with a pension in 1861, and died in Lwów. He was the owner of a Stradivarius violin that became known as the Lipinski Stradivarius. His compositions, long forgotten and now beginning to be recorded, included four violin concertos, as well as studies, polonaises, rondos, variations, capriccios. He wrote three symphonies. His adaptation, with some of his own original music interpolated, of Ferdinand Kauer's Donauweibchen was played every season at Lwow for nearly thirty years from 1814, but the music is now lost. The Karol Lipinski University of Music in Wrocław, Poland was named after him.

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