Kreisler—Master Musician

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 36, 22 March 1929, Page 9

Kreisler—Master Musician

FRITZ KREISLER, whose name i8 constantly appearing on the pra grames, was born in 1875. He is best known to musicians as a fine intem preter of great music. He is also well known as a composer and, even more notably, as an arranger of other people’s pieces. This son of a leading Viennese doctor began studying under Hellmesberger and Auer at the Conservatorium at seven (he was about half the age of any other pupil there), Later, in Paris, he worked at theory under Delibes, and at twelve carried off one of the Conservatoire’s biggest prizes, against competitors of twenty, Strangely, after a while he left musi¢ studying medicine and art; then hé did some army service. When he came out again as a violinist, he soon began to make the reputation that far nearly thirty years has steadily grown, For some years he lived in America, He put in good service during the wax, in which he was early wounded. y eonnection with British-speaking p ple has been close and cordial. holds the gold medal of the Royddl Philharmonic Society (1904). oe =a