Józef Ozimiński (6 December 1877,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

– 8 July 1945, Warsaw) was a Polish

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist and conductor. His teachers included

Stanisław Barcewicz Stanisław Barcewicz (16 April 18581 September 1929) was a noted Polish violinist, conductor and teacher. Although his repertoire included almost all of the classical and romantic violin literature, he was valued primarily for his interpretati ...

. On 1 November 1922 in Warsaw, he was the soloist in the premiere performance of

Karol Szymanowski Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 6 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. Szymanowski's early works show the inf ...

's Violin Concerto No. 1.

References

Entry in the ''Encyklopedia muzyki PWN'' (in Polish)
1877 births 1938 deaths Polish classical violinists Male classical violinists Polish conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Musicians from Warsaw {{violinist-stub