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Editor: Franz Kneisel

b. Bucharest, 26.1.1865 d. New York, 26.3 1926

Teachers: Jacob Grün, Joseph Hellmesberger.

Associates: Brahms, Dvořák, Nikisch, Enescu.

Professional Appointments: Concertmaster, Vienna Hofburg Theatre, 1882 (in succession to Jacob Dont); Concertmaster, Bilse Orchestra, Berlin, 1884; Concertmaster, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1885-1903; Head of violin department at New Institute of Musical Art, New York (now the Julliard School), 1905-26.

Kneisel Quartet, founded in 1885. Second violin - Emmanuel Fiedler, Otto Roth (1886), Karl Ondriček (1900), Julius Theodorowicz (1901), Julius Roentgen (1907); viola - Louis Svencenski; cello - Fritz Giese, Anton Hekking (1890), Alwin Schroeder (1891), Willem Willeke (1907). Kneisel Quartet disbanded in 1917.

Pupils: Joseph Fuchs, Lilian Fuchs, Robert Talbot, Joan Field.

Editions

Title	Composer	Work	Publisher	Publication No.	Date
First Sonata	Brahms, Johannes	Violin Sonata no. 1 in G major	Schirmer		1918	View
Sonata	Brahms, Johannes	Violin Sonata no. 3 in D minor	G. Schirmer		1918	View
Sonata	Brahms, Johannes	Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major	Schirmer	1302	1918	View