Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler was the last, best ambassador of nineteenth-century Vienna to a twentieth-century world. Because he had no formal instruction on the violin past the age of twelve, Kreisler was able to develop a completely personal style that, together with his mystical, romantic approach to music, made him universally admired. His endearing girl for storytelling led to the musical scandal that arose when he admitted in mid-career to having authored more than a dozen pieces that he had been presenting for years as arrangements of long-lost works by eighteenth-century composers.

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