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7 unusual facts about Franz Kneisel


Franz Kneisel

After graduating from the Bucharest Conservatory in 1879 he went to Vienna, where he continued his studies with Jakob Grün and Joseph Hellmesberger until 1882; he made his solo début in Vienna at the end of that year.

Born in Bucharest, the son of a German bandmaster, he learned to play the flute, clarinet and trumpet as well as the violin.

In 1938, she married retired banker and business executive Felix E. Kahn (b Mannheim, Germany, 25 January 1873; d Blue Hill, Maine, 25 July 1950), who had been a director of the Paramount Pictures Corporation and was a noted collector of violins, as well as a brother of banker and philanthropist Otto H. Kahn and composer Robert Kahn

Joseph Fuchs

Born in New York, he graduated in 1918 from the Institute of Musical Art in New York where he studied with Franz Kneisel.

Lillian Fuchs

Lillian Fuchs made her New York début on the violin in 1926, but soon switched to viola at the urging of Franz Kneisel (she was once heard to say, much to the great surprise of the auditors present, that it had never been her idea to play the viola, as she considered the instrument to be too big for her!).

Lillian Fuchs began her musical studies as a pianist, later studying violin with her father and afterwards with Franz Kneisel (former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Kneisel Quartet) at the Institute of Musical Art, now the Juilliard School.

Samuel Gardner

He was a student of Franz Kneisel and Percy Goetschius, and began his career as a concert violinist; among his compositions is a violin concerto.


Hungarian violin school

Böhm's classes gave birth to the following Hungarian violinists: Joachim, Auer, Flesch, Otto Singer, Tivadar Nachez, Hubay; and to violinists of other nationalities as: Hellmesberger, Jacob Dont, Ernst (Romanian), Ferdinand Laub, Franz Kneisel and Karl Klingler.

Musicians Foundation

The certificate was signed by Frank Damrosch, August Fraemcke, Rubin Goldmark, Hugo Grunwald, Sigmund Herzog, Ferdinand von Inten and Franz Kneisel, and these gentlemen, together with Rudolph Schirmer and Maurice M. Sternberger, were designated as Directors to serve until the first annual meeting in April, 1914.


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