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 .
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Emanuel Ondříček in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Český hudební slovník osob a institucí - Ondříček, Emanuel
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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 |