Stanisław Barcewicz

Stanisław Karlovich Barcewicz (Polish: Stanisław Barcewicz; April 16, 1858, Warsaw - November 2, 1929, ibid.) was a Polish violinist and music teacher. At first he studied with Apollinaris Kontsky and Vladislav Gursky. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (1876) with Ferdinand Laub and Ivan Grzhimali, and also studied composition with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He gave a concert of works by Tchaikovsky at the Paris World Exhibition of 1878, and subsequently toured Europe extensively, including performances in Hamburg, Berlin, London, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Riga. Since 1885 he has been an accompanist of the Warsaw Opera. He also performed as part of a trio with Alexander Mikhalovsky and Александр Вержбилович. Since 1886 he was a professor of violin and viola at the Warsaw Conservatory, in 1910-1918 its director. Among Bartsevich's students, in particular, Józef Yazhembsky, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Piotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky, Paul Godwin, Bronisław Mitman and Mieczysław Karlowicz, who dedicated the Violin Concerto to his teacher, who first performed it in 1902 in Berlin. Another well-known premiere performed by Barcewicz is Johan Severin Svensen's Romance for Violin and Orchestra (1881, Oslo).