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...70th birthday. He is Composer Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, an Alsatian who came to the U. S. at 20, played the violin in Manhattan for a year under Theodore Thomas, then joined the Boston Symphony where for 18 years he shared the first violin desk with famed Franz Kneisel...
...Revolution intervened. Young Sascha journeyed to the U. S., joined the class of Franz Kneisel* under whom he developed slowly, unspectacularly, with no show of temperament. In 1915, he made his debut, was acclaimed...
...Great as the Flonzaleys, great as the Musical Art Quartet may sometime become, was the Kneisel Quartet which flourished from...
Arthur Fiedler conceived and accomplished the Esplanade concerts himself. His is a new name to nationwide concertgoers, but his musical lineage is a proud one. He was born 35 years ago in Boston, the son of Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...
...Record. When the Flonzaleys first came to the U. S., the sole chamber ensemble of any importance was the quartet of Franz Kneisel, violinist of the Boston Symphony. Kneisel was the pioneer. The Flonzaleys have spread the gospel, making it possible for many to become acquainted with much of the world's most satisfying music. Some 2,000 concerts in 500 U. S. cities, some 500 more in Europe-so have they done what Banker deCoppet meant them to do. For balance, clarity and unity they have been and still remain the best of their kind...