Kochanski dedicated Serenade to his wife Zosia . It is in my opinion in gesture like Irving Berlin"s '''ll Be Loving You ,Always''.And after all with Wieniawski's Legend for his bride to be ( written over night in seeking approval of future father in law , Elgar's Salut d'amour also for bride to be instead of engagement ring , Chopin Romance from Concerto No.1 when he was in love with Konstancja Gladkowska ( her parents didn't approved of him) Brahms Hungarian Dances for Clara Schumann- never his bride to be but in my opinion Brahms immortal love, Beethoven's mortal and immortal beloved ones with even 2 possible inspirations for one Fur Elise- T.Malfatti to whom he proposed in the year of Chopin 's birth and E.Rockel ,this Serenade belongs to rare romantic gestures with love story behind with happy ending in classical music. It was a song which George Gershwin played for beloved one or rather ones, for women he loved at the moment lets say. After his death it was played in radio and many women called as those lucky addressee only to discover that song was played by George before and after them in a game Cassanova in US. Ups.. He loved one women: Paulette Goddard but she preferred ,,funny' man-Charlie Chaplin.
Kochanski was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Odessa in 1887.Like many other Poles after criminal act of Russia, Prussia,Austria in 1772, the biggest most democratic & tolerant country in Europe -Poland-the only one without ugly inquisition with religious freedom -was attacted simultaneously by all neighbors. Those despots from Berlin ,Vienna ,St. Petersburg who denied civil liberties to their own subjects found the way to annex Poland with help of bribed Polish traitors. As a result for 123 years many Poles were from gulags of Siberia for fighting in many uprisings for our independence to anywhere they found work. Some were born in Odessa like Kochanski or Syberia- Peter Tschaikovsky"s father others on Polish territory from before 1772 like Toloczyn- Irving Berlin ,Lozdzieje - J Achron ,Kurylowka -Ignacy Paderewski,Podole known as Podolia Governorate -Anton & Mikolaj Rubinstein , Wilno -Jasha Heifetz or parents of Harold Arlen-Over the Rainbow melodie, Kolomyja -Emanuel Fouermann,, Tarnowek ( today Talne)- Misha Elman. People like Kosciuszko, Pulaski, Bem,Lipinski,Szymanowska,,Serwaczynski,Chopin,Curie Sklodowska, Wieniawski , Korczak, Ko MakuszynskiPaderewski, Hoffman,Stokowski,Achron,Huberman,Sembrich Kochanska,Negri, Conrad,, Sienkiewicz, Slowacki, Mickiewicz,Mlynarski, RosenthalHorszowski, Szymanowski,Goldwyn (born in Warsaw as Szmul Gelbisz)Wonsal or Wrona/ Warner Brothers(Krasnosielc) , Szeryng ,Kochanski ,Reszke Brothers , Wars , Izraelowicz Funk (Vit.B) Zamenfoff - Esperanto , Ben-Gurion,Rajewski,Rozycki, Zygalski-those 3 man in 1932 broke Enigma and later based on their Enigma bombs machines and calculations British MI6 broke latest Enigma version, were born or living when Poland was under partitions.
Pawel was named after his father who was a violinist and first teacher to his sons : Pawel & Eli.( Eli become later great cellist ) At age 7 Pawel started to study violin in Odessa with a Pole-- Emil Mlynarski born in 1870 in Kubartai-today Lituania.Mlynarski( later Artur Rubinstein's father- in -law)was a pupil of Leopold Auer -former assistant to Wieniawski. When Pawel's and Eli's father died Mlynarski adopted both boys with total acceptance of their Jewish religion being himself a catholic.They moved to Warsaw where Mlynarski in 1901 established Warsaw Philharmonic. .In 1921 Pawel played Brahms with Walter Damrosch in NYC Soon he become a violin teacher at Juilliard School of Music.
He was a formidable violin virtuoso with legendary skills like famous staccatos from Serwaczynski/Wieniawski /Auer Tradition -at least 40 notes taken in one bow at the frog ( it's called Wieniawski's "electric staccato)
I know about it from Ania who had the same ability .

Anna Karkowska Violin
Katarzyna Karkowska Piano

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