Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908

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1FRANZ KNEISEL
3Violinist
5Born at Bucharest, Rumania, in 1865. His father, a military band leader, was his first teacher; prize for violin, when he was fifteen. Won first prize for violin at Vienna Conservatory in 1882; became solo violinist of Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1885, holding this position for eighteen years. Founded the Kneisel Quartet in 1886; now violin instructor in the Institute of Musical Art, New York.

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