death_date death_place article_title name background birth_date instrument genre image origin birth_name occupation
08 october 1865 nice heinrich wilhelm ernst
 heinrich wilhelm ernst non_vocal_instrumentalist 08 june 1812 violin classical ernst porträt & autogramm.jpg brno , moravia heinrich wilhelm ernst musician
heinrich wilhelm ernst

heinrich wilhelm ernst -lrb- b. june 8 , 1812 ?
-lrb- erroneously may 6 , 1814 -rrb- , brünn ; d. october 8 , 1865 , nice -rrb- was a moravian-jewish violinist , violist and composer .
he was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of paganini 's greatest successors .
although he was a highly esteemed artist in his days , he is not well known today .
many saw him as the superior violinist of his time and paganini 's greatest successor .
not only did he contribute to polyphonic playing , but he also discovered new idiomatic ways to compose polyphonically conceived violin music .
his friends included hector berlioz and felix mendelssohn .
