Tadeusz Wronski was a Polish violinist, musicologist, and music educator, also listed as a composer and chess player. He was born in Warsaw on April 1, 1915, and died there on January 15, 2000.
He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1939, where he studied with Józef Jarzębski. In 1947–1948, he studied at the Brussels Conservatory with André Gertler. From 1949, he was a professor at the Warsaw Higher School of Music, serving as its rector from 1973 to 1975. He also taught at the Indiana University School of Music from 1966 to 1984. From 1962 to 1965, he headed the Polish Association of Performing Musicians.
As a performer, Wronski was known chiefly for his duo performances with pianist Władysław Szpilman and for playing in the Warsaw Piano Quintet. His publications include the four-volume teaching manual Questions of Violin Playing (1957–1970) and a book on Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin (1970).
In 1990, he founded a violin competition in Warsaw devoted entirely to works for solo violin. He was buried at Old Powazki Cemetery.