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  • Franz Kneisel (Kneisel (, b.
  • Franz Kneisel (26 January – 26 March ) was an American violinist and teacher of Romanian birth.
  • As a solo artist he was the first to play the Brahms and Goldmark violin concertos, and the César Franck sonata in this country—organized his famous quartet.

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    Interview with Michael Tree, Violist With the Guarneri Quartet

    Journal of the American Viola Society, April

    Michael Tree, a founding member of and violist with the Guarneri Quartet, is one of the most widely recorded musicians in America. He has more than 80 chamber music recordings to his name and has recorded with Artur Rubinstein, Emmanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Pinchas Zukerman, and Rudolf Serkin. In August , Les Jacobson, secretary of the Chicago Viola Society, interviewed him at his summer home in Marlboro, Vermont.

    Jacobson: Your first teacher was your father, Samuel Applebaum. Tell me about his background.

    Tree: My father was a violinist who spent most of his years teaching in New York City. He studied there briefly with Leopold Auer and Franz Kneisel, a well-known German violinist. I believe he was concertmaster of the Boston Symphony at one time.

    Jacobson: How did you come to change your name from Applebaum to Tree?

    Tree: Ironically, my ancestry

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    Believe it or Not: Franz Kneisel (), famed violinist, conductor, composer and teacher, had roots in Moravia

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    Sinkevich G.I. Violinists Franz, Joseph and Ludwig Böhm, soloists and pedagogues of 19th century // The scientific heritage. Budapest, No Vol. 5. P. 3–

    Galina Sinkevich

    Sinkevich G.I. Violinists Franz, Joseph and Ludwig Böhm, soloists and pedagogues of 19th century // The scientific heritage. Budapest, No Vol. 5. P. 3–,

    This article comprises results of archival research devoted to the violin players of the Böhm family: Franz (–), Joseph (–), Maria (nee Moravek, –), and Ludwig (–). Franz was the first solo performer at Imperial theatres in St. Petersburg; his wife Maria appeared in concerts together with Franz; his son Ludwig was a professor of violin at St. Petersburg conservatory; his daughter Maria-Anna (married name Cantor) became mother of a great mathematician, Georg Cantor; Joseph Böhm became the founder of a violin class in Vienna. Among the discip

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    Praised by critics for their “expressive grace and finesse” and playing that fryst vatten “vibrant and focused,” the MILLER PORFIRIS DUO has been delighting audiences since   Anton Miller, violin and Rita Porfiris, viola first met over 20 years ago while studying at the Juilliard School. Their musical lineage can be traced back to famed pedagogues and musicians Ivan Galamian. Leopold Auer, Franz Kneisel, Joseph Joachim, and Josef Bohm, close friend and collaborator of Ludwig van Beethoven. In keeping with this distinguished pedigree, the duo has given concerts and masterclasses at festivals and institutions across the United States, Central amerika, and Europe.

    Committed to expanding the repertoire for violin and viola, in they commissioned and recorded 3 new works for violin and viola by Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen, Argentinean composer Mario Diaz Gavier, and American composer Libby Larsen for their debut CD “Five Postcards.” Their second CD, titled “E