Feliks Janiewicz: Violin Concerto No. 5 in E minor,

Feliks Janiewicz

 (Vilnius 1762 - 21 May 1848 Edinburgh) was a Polish composer and violinist in exile.

 

Violin Concerto No. 5 in E minor,

I. Allegro 10:04
II. Adagio 05:53
III. Rondo 06:39


He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1762. At an early age, he was violinist at the Polish Royal Chapel, after which he travelled to Vienna about 1785 to see and listen to Haydn and Mozart, and spending three years in Italy to refine his artistic abilities with the Italian masters of that day.
In Paris, he appeared at the Concerts Spirituels in December 1787, and was described in the Mercure de France as a pupil of the Italian violinist Giovanni Giornovich and was immediately recognised by the Parisians as an artist of high rank. There he was employed by the Duc d'Orléons. on the outbreak of the revolution he left France for London in 1790.
During several seasons Janiewicz played in London, visited the provinces and Ireland as a violinist, and conducted the subscription concerts in Manchester and Liverpool. He was one of the original members of the London Philharmonic Society, and in the first season (1813) was one of the leaders of the orchestra.
From 1815 he was resident in Edinburgh (he was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Festival).
He retired after 1829, and died at 84 Great King Street, Edinburgh, on 21 May 1848, aged 86.