‘Master of the violin, artist of the soul’: Władysław Baczyński
2025-01-24T08:32:00
Władysław Baczyński overcame a life of tragedy to become one of Poland’s most highly regarded 20th-century violin makers. Grzegorz Kaproń tells his story
In 1917 the Hungarian violinist and soldier Marczi Zöldy, in a private letter to Władysław Baczyński, called him the ‘master of the violin and artist of the soul’. Ten years later, the Polish violinist and music teacher Edmund Giżejewski included him among the three most outstanding violin makers of the early 20th century working in Poland, along with Gustav Häussler in Kraków and Tomasz Panufnik in Warsaw…