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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (1822–1896)

Wasielewski, Wilhelm Joseph von (vä-sē-ā-lev’skē). A German violinist; born at Gross-Leesen near Dantzic, June 17, 1822; died on Dec. 13, 1896. He wrote: ‘The Violin and its Masters’ (1869); ‘R. Schumann: A Biography’ (1858); ‘The Violin in the Seventeenth Century and the Beginnings of Instrumental Composition’ (1874); ‘History of Instrumental Music in the Sixteenth Century’ (1878); ‘Schumanniana’ (1883); ‘Beethoven’ (2 vols., 1888); ‘The Violoncello and its History’ (1889).