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ERNST, HEINRICH WILHELM (1814–1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 753 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST, HEINRICH WILHELM (1814–1865) , See also:German violinist and composer, was See also:born at See also:Brunn, in See also:Moravia, in 1814. He was educated at the Conservatorium of See also:Vienna, studying the See also:violin under See also:Joseph Bohm and Joseph Mayseder, and See also:composition under Ignaz von Seyfried. At the See also:age of sixteen he made a See also:concert tour in See also:south See also:Germany, which established his reputation as a violinist of the highest promise. In 1832 he went to See also:Paris, where he lived for several years. During this See also:period he formed an intimacy with See also:Stephen See also:Heller, which resulted in their charming See also:joint compositions—the Pensees fugitives for piano and violin. In 1843 he paid his first visit to See also:London. The impression which he then made as a violinist was more than confirmed in the following See also:year, when his rare See also:powers were recognized by the musical public. Thenceforward he visited See also:England nearly every year, until his See also:health See also:broke down owing to See also:long-continued See also:neuralgia of a most severe See also:kind. The last seven years of his See also:life were spent in retirement, chiefly at See also:Nice, where he died on the 8th of See also:October 1865. As a violinist Ernst was distinguished by his almost unrivalled executive See also:power, loftiness of conception, and intensely passionate expression. As a composer he wrote chiefly for his753 own See also:instrument, and his Elegie and Otello See also:Fantasia See also:rank among the most treasured See also:works for the violin.

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