Fritz Kreisler
1951, First Edition. London : Rockliff. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Endpapers foxed, and pages gently tanned with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #453467
Physical description; xx, 459 pages. Notes; Includes one chapter written by Fritz Kreisler ('Music and life', pages 198-204). Includes bibliography, discography and thematic catalogue of Kreisler's compositions, transcriptions, and arrangements. Contents; A Wunderkind is born (1875) ; The youngest pupil of the Vienna conservatory (1882-1885) ; In knee breeches on the American concert platform (1888-1889) ; The fiddle yields to the pen, scalpel and sword (1889-1895) ; Back in his element, music (1896-1898) ; Café 'megalomania' and its habitués (1896-1898) ; On to Berlin - and fame (1899) ; A gay young blade (1900-1902) ; Enter Harriet (1901) ; A glutton for music making but a foe of practising ; Twelve years rich in experience (1902-1914) ; America and continental Europe (1902-1914) ; Lieutenant Kreisler (1914) ; Bouquets, boos, and war hysteria (1914-1917) ; Marking time (1918-1919) ; The comeback (1919-1924) ; Music and life (by Fritz Kreisler, 1921) ; A glimpse of the orient (1923) ; A permanent home at last (1924) ; A tour 'down under' (1925) ; The world at his feet (1925-1932) ; Kreisler recordings ; Kultur in high boots and spurs (1933-1938) ; Confession of an old hoax (1935) ; World War II (1939-1945) ; Kreisler's best friend ; Kreisler and his accompanists ; Kreisler's violins ; Colleagues of the bow ; Hobbies, habits, and mistaken identities ; The twilight (1945-1950) ; Postscript: seventy-fifth birthday (1950). Subjects; Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962). Violinists -- Austria -- Biography.
Price: €45.00