Stanisław Barcewicz (16 April 18581 September 1929) was a Polish
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,
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. Although his repertoire included almost all of the classical and romantic violin literature, he was valued primarily for his interpretations of works by
Henryk Wieniawski
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and
Felix Mendelssohn
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. He also premiered works by his teacher
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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, including the Polish premiere of the
Violin Concerto in D. He played on a
Guadagnini violin.
Biography
Stanisław Barcewicz was born in
Warsaw
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in 1858, and first studied violin at the Institute of Music there under
Apollinaire de Kontski
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Early life
He was born in Warsaw (some sources say incorrectly Kraków) as Apolinary Kątski, the youngest of five musical siblings who all used th ...
(Apolinary Kątski) and
Władysław Gorski. At the age of 11 he publicly performed
Beriot's Violin Concerto No. 7 in G major. He then studied at the
Moscow Conservatory
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, where his teachers were
Ferdinand Laub,
Jan Hřímalý
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Biography
Hřímalý was born in Plzeň, Bo ...
and
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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. He graduated in 1876 with a Gold Medal.
On 20 or 21 September 1878, as part of the
1878 Paris World Exhibition, he performed at the
Trocadéro in a concert of works by Tchaikovsky, including the first public performance of the ''
Valse-Scherzo in C'', conducted by
Nikolai Rubinstein
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Life
Born to Jewish parents in Moscow, where his father ...
. He later toured Europe extensively, including appearances in
Leipzig
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,
Dresden
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,
Hamburg
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,
Elberfeld
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,
Koblenz
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,
Berlin
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, Königsberg,
London
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,
Denmark
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,
Sweden
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,
Norway
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, Russia, and
Riga
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.
["Stanisław Barcewicz"]
by Małgorzata Kosińska, Polish Music Information Centre, 2007
In 1881 Barcewicz premiered
Johan Svendsen
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Svendsen's output includes two symphonies, a vi ...
's ''Romance for Violin and Orchestra'' in Kristiania (
Oslo
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). On 14 January 1892 he gave the Polish premieres of Tchaikovsky's
Violin Concerto in D and ''
Sérénade mélancolique
''Sérénade mélancolique'' in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 26 (Russian: ''Меланхолическая серенада''), is a piece by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that was written in February 1875. It was his first work for vi ...
'', in Warsaw, under the composer's baton.
In 1885, he became the concertmaster and second conductor of the
Warsaw Opera. He occasionally conducted operas there, and he also conducted the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
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.
In 1886, he was appointed violin and viola professor at the
Warsaw Conservatory
The Chopin University of Music (, UMFC) is a musical conservatorium and academy located in central Warsaw, Poland. It is the oldest and largest music school in Poland, and one of the largest in Europe.Emil Młynarski
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Life
Młynarski was born in Kibarty (Kybartai), Russian Empire, now in Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer and ...
. Among his pupils in Warsaw can be mentioned
Mieczysław Karłowicz
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Life
Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to ...
,
Grzegorz Fitelberg
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Li ...
,
Pyotr Stolyarsky (teacher of
David Oistrakh
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,
Nathan Milstein
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,
Boris Goldstein,
Mikhail Goldstein and others),
Henryk Gold,
Aleksander Jabłoński
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(later to become a renowned physicist),
Paul Godwin, and
Józef Ozimiński
Józef Ozimiński (6 December 1877, Warsaw – 8 July 1945, Warsaw) was a Polish violinist and conductor.
His teachers included Stanisław Barcewicz.
On 1 November 1922 in Warsaw, he was the soloist in the premiere performance of Karol Szymanow ...
.
Barcewicz also founded and led the
Warsaw String Quartet from 1892 until his death,
and he also played in a renowned piano trio with the Polish pianist
Aleksander Michałowski
Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue, and composer.
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Michałowski was born in 1851 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, which was a part of the Russian Empire. In 1867, at age 16, he stu ...
and the Russian cellist
Aleksandr Verzhbilovich.
In 1902 his former pupil Mieczysław Karłowicz wrote his Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 for Barcewicz, who premiered it on 21 March 1903 with the
Berlin Philharmonic
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Throughout the 20th century, the orchestra was led by conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922� ...
under the composer.
Barcewicz died in Warsaw in 1929, aged 71.
Recordings
He can be heard on the double CD set ''The Great Violinists'', playing pieces recorded in 1905 with piano accompaniment:
*
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's ''Melodie'', Op. 15/2 (Barcewicz's own arrangement)
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* the Canzonetta from the Violin Concerto in D by Tchaikovsky
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; and
* Henryk Wieniawski
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's ''Kujawiak Mazurka'' in A minor, Op. 3.
As an indication of his standing, other violinists in the collection include Joseph Joachim
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, Eugène Ysaÿe
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Early years
Born in Liège, Ysaÿe began ...
, Pablo de Sarasate
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, Arnold Rosé
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, Jan Kubelík
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He was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after di ...
, Willy Burmester
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Life and career
Willy Burmester was born in Hamburg and was a pupil of Joseph Joachim, with whom he studied for many years in Berlin. In 1885, howev ...
, Jacques Thibaud
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Biography
Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won th ...
, Marie Hall, Franz von Vecsey
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, Joseph Szigeti
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Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and move ...
and Fritz Kreisler
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.
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