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  • Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June – 8 October ) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer.
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was one of the most important violin virtuosi of the nineteenth century.
  • From , Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz.

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    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Virtuoso Violinist Intro

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    Ernst was one of the greatest violinists of the 19th century, praised by many famous composers and critics, but he is not well known today due to a lack of biographical information about his life. As a Jewish musician living in a time of widespread anti-Semitism, Ernst avoided documentation and leaving traces of his life in order to protect himself. He lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving frequently, which undermined his health and made collaborating on compositions difficult. The lack of information about Ernst has been further exacerbated by lost documents, world wars that destroyed records and killed his family members, and the changing political boundaries where he lived.

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    Ernst was one of the greatest violinists

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    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist

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    From , Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara Schumann, and Joachim. It is a sign of his importance that, in , Brahms gave two public performances in Vienna of his own and Ernst's music to raise money for the now mortally ill violinist. Berlioz described Ernst as 'one of the artists whom I love the most, and with whose talent I am most sympathetique', while Joachim was in no doubt that Ernst was 'the greatest violinist I ever heard; he towered above the others'. Many felt that he surpassed the expressive and technical achievements of Paganini, but Ernst, unlike his great predecessor, was also a tireless champion of public chamber music, and did more than any other early nineteenth-century violinist to make Beethoven's late quartets widely known and a

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    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

    Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer ( - )

    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

    Lithograph bygd Josef Kriehuber,

    Birth nameHeinrich Wilhelm Ernst
    Born()8 June
    OriginBrno, Moravia
    Died8 October () (aged&#;53)
    Nice
    GenresClassical
    OccupationMusician
    Instrument(s)Violin, Viola, Piano

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    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June – 8 October ) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest successors. He contributed to polyphonic playing and discovered new ways to compose polyphonic violin music. His most famous, and technically difficult, compositions include the sixth of his Polyphonic Studies "Die letzte Rose", and Grand Caprice on Schubert's "Erlkönig".[1]

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    Ernst was born in Brno, Moravia on 8 June [2][n 1] He began playing violin at the age of 9, and attend