Avraham-Yehoshua Makonovetsky (Yiddish: אברהם-יהושע מאקאָנאָװעצקי, Russian: Авраам-Егошуа Маконовичский, born 1872) was a Russian-Jewish Klezmer violinist who acted as a key informant to the Soviet Ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky in the 1930s.
Makonovetsky's father, known as Yisroel der fidler (Israel the fiddler) had lived in Bragin (now Brahin, Belarus) before marrying a woman from Khabne and relocating there, forming a klezmer ensemble there in 1858.
[3] After a few years of being underpaid and underfed as the second fiddler in Sirtovich's orchestra, Makonovetsky left Malyn for Radomyshl where he joined another klezmer ensemble under Nune Vaynshteyn.
[2] In Khabne in the 1890s he sought to improve his musical education, studying printed works by Charles Auguste de Bériot and a method book by a Polish author named Niedzielski, as well as other published concertos and etudes.
[3] After the closure of the Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture in Kyiv in 1949, Beregovsky's materials (including Makonovetsky's manuscripts) were kept in storage for several decades before being integrated into the collection of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine after the breakup of the Soviet Union.