Aleksander Jabłoński [SEP] date of death
Aleksander Jabłoński
Professor Aleksander Jabłoński (born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in Imperial Russia, died 9 September 1980 in Skierniewice, Poland) was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
During the World War I he served in the Polish I Corps in Russia. After the war he settled in Warsaw in 1918. In 1919-1920 he fought for Poland against aggression by Soviet Russia (and was consequently decorated with the Polish Cross of Valour).
Jabłoński initially studied the violin at Warsaw
, Aleksander Jabłoński (later to become a renowned physicist), Paul Godwin, and Józef Ozimiński.
Barcewicz also founded and led the Warsaw String Quartet from 1892 until his death, and he also played in a renowned piano trio with the Polish pianist Aleksander Michałowski and the Russian cellist Aleksandr Verzhbilovich.
In 1902 his former pupil Mieczysław Karłowicz wrote his Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 for Barcewicz, who premiered it on 21 March 1903 with the Berlin Philharmonic under the composer.
Barcewicz died in Warsaw in