Emanuel Ondříček

Emanuel Ondříček (pseudonym: Floris ; born December 6, 1880 in Pilsen , † December 30, 1958 in Boston ) was a Czech violinist, music teacher and composer.

Ondříček was the son of the conductor and violinist Jan Ondříček and, like his brothers František and Stanislav, became known as a violinist. He received his first violin lessons from his father and studied at the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Ševčík . He had his first successes as a violinist in Russia and the Balkan countries, later he also performed in Vienna, Budapest, Berlin and London - there already under the name Floris .

From 1910 he lived in America, where he ended his career as a violin virtuoso in 1912 after a nervous breakdown. He founded The Ondricek's Studios of Violin Art in Boston and another violin school in New York, where, in addition to his sisters Marie and Augusta Ondříčková , his brothers-in-law Karel Leitner and Bedřich Váška also taught. From 1956 he also taught violin at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University .

Ondříček composed a string quartet (1924) as well as a few other works and arrangements for violin, and in 1931 wrote the music pedagogical work The Mastery of Tone Production and Expression on the Violin .

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SURNAME	Ondříček, Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Floris (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech violinist, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 1958
Place of death	Boston