Karel Halíř [SEP] place of birth
Karel Halíř
Karel Halíř (1 February 185921 December 1909) was a Czech violinist who lived mainly in Germany. "Karel" is also seen as Karol, Karl or Carl; "Halíř" is also seen as Halir or Haliř.
Biography.
Karel Halíř was born in Hohenelbe, Bohemia (now Vrchlabí, Czech Republic), and studied with Antonín Bennewitz in Prague (1867–73) and with Joseph Joachim in Berlin (1874–76). For the next four years (1876-1879) he was part of
played but beaten black and blue."
The violinist who did much early work to make the work popular with the public and win a place for it in the repertoire was Karel Halíř (who in 1905 was to premiere the revised version of the Sibelius Violin Concerto). When Tchaikovsky attended a Leipzig performance of the work in 1888, with Haliř as soloist, he called the event "a memorable day".
The Polish premiere of the concerto was given in Warsaw on 14 January 1892, with Stanisław Barcewicz on