Kneisel quartet string quartet founded in 1885 (1 Ergebnisse)

Oblong-8vo. 1 page. Signed by all four members Franz Kneisel, Louis Sve enski, Willem Willeke, and Hans Letz. They gave their final performance before retirement on April 3, 1917.The Kneisel Quartet was founded in 1885, soon after Franz Kneisel arrived in Boston as concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The original members of the quartet were all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and this remained true, in spite of changes in personnel, until 1903, when the players resigned from the orchestra in order to devote their time and energy exclusively to chamber music. In 1905 they moved from Boston to New York City, where Kneisel had accepted a position at the recently created Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School of Music). From the collection of the Swiss musician Alfred Pochon (1878-1959).…