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(Hen’-ri Ven-yov’-ske) 1835–80 Polish composer Wieniawski was a child prodigy; after studies with Massart at the Paris Conservatoire, he was the youngest at 11 years old to graduate with the Gold Medal. He was also influenced by the Belgian School of Charles-Auguste de Bériot and Henri Vieuxtemps, whom he succeeded as professor at the Brussels Conservatory, following a post ...

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brother Nikolai (1835–81) founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a child prodigy Anton played to Liszt. His legendary virtuosity was acclaimed across Europe and the US, where he toured with Wieniawski in 1872. He espoused German Romanticism and thus, as founder-director of the St Petersburg Conservatory (1862), represented the ‘conservative’ opposition to the radical nationalism of ‘The Five’. Rubinstein founded ...

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studied at the Odessa Conservatory and made his Leningrad debut in 1928. He won several competitions in the 1930s, and came second to Ginette Neveu (1919–49) in the 1935 Wieniawski competition. His international career developed after the war. Many composers wrote works for him, notably Shostakovich, whose First Concerto he played at his New York debut in 1955. ...

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1919–49 French violinist Neveu studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and with Enescu. She won the International Wieniawski Competition in 1935. She toured Europe, the US and Canada, making her London debut in 1945. Her recordings of the Brahms and Sibelius concertos show the force and passion of her playing. She died in a plane crash. Introduction | Modern ...

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second in the Ring cycle). Popular in his own day, the piece is especially familiar now from Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now. Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Henri Wieniawski | Late Romantic | Classical ...