A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me
This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music.
    Once called by the New York Times "a violinist's violinist and a musician's musician," Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin with Franz Kneisl at New York's Institute of Musical Art. He was the original violist of the Musical Art Quartet (1926-1933) and won the Naumburg Award in 1928, the year of his American solo recital debut in New York's Town Hall.
    During these early years, he played chamber music with Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. After performing the violin solos for Ernst Lubitsch's 1934 film The Merry Widow, Kaufman became the most sought after violin soloist in Hollywood, playing in some 500 films, including Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, and Spartacus. He worked closely with Robert Russell Bennett, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklós Rózsa, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Victor Young.     
    Extraordinary as it seems today, Kaufman was largely responsible for bringing the once-forgotten music of Antonio Vivaldi to its current popularity worldwide among both classical musicians and the general population of music lovers.
    The book includes a music CD with Kaufman’s performances of Vivaldi’s Concerto 2 of op. 9, Havanaise by Camille Saint Saëns, Nocturne for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland, Much Ado about Nothing Suite for violin and piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern, among other favorites.
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A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me
This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music.
    Once called by the New York Times "a violinist's violinist and a musician's musician," Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin with Franz Kneisl at New York's Institute of Musical Art. He was the original violist of the Musical Art Quartet (1926-1933) and won the Naumburg Award in 1928, the year of his American solo recital debut in New York's Town Hall.
    During these early years, he played chamber music with Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. After performing the violin solos for Ernst Lubitsch's 1934 film The Merry Widow, Kaufman became the most sought after violin soloist in Hollywood, playing in some 500 films, including Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, and Spartacus. He worked closely with Robert Russell Bennett, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklós Rózsa, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Victor Young.     
    Extraordinary as it seems today, Kaufman was largely responsible for bringing the once-forgotten music of Antonio Vivaldi to its current popularity worldwide among both classical musicians and the general population of music lovers.
    The book includes a music CD with Kaufman’s performances of Vivaldi’s Concerto 2 of op. 9, Havanaise by Camille Saint Saëns, Nocturne for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland, Much Ado about Nothing Suite for violin and piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern, among other favorites.
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A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

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This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music.
    Once called by the New York Times "a violinist's violinist and a musician's musician," Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin with Franz Kneisl at New York's Institute of Musical Art. He was the original violist of the Musical Art Quartet (1926-1933) and won the Naumburg Award in 1928, the year of his American solo recital debut in New York's Town Hall.
    During these early years, he played chamber music with Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. After performing the violin solos for Ernst Lubitsch's 1934 film The Merry Widow, Kaufman became the most sought after violin soloist in Hollywood, playing in some 500 films, including Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, and Spartacus. He worked closely with Robert Russell Bennett, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklós Rózsa, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Victor Young.     
    Extraordinary as it seems today, Kaufman was largely responsible for bringing the once-forgotten music of Antonio Vivaldi to its current popularity worldwide among both classical musicians and the general population of music lovers.
    The book includes a music CD with Kaufman’s performances of Vivaldi’s Concerto 2 of op. 9, Havanaise by Camille Saint Saëns, Nocturne for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland, Much Ado about Nothing Suite for violin and piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern, among other favorites.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299183837
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 02/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 488
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Louis Kaufman (1905–1994) was probably the most-recorded violinist in history, with recordings of more than one hundred major concert works and hundreds of film soundtracks to his credit. Annette Kaufman (1914–2016), a pianist, shared Louis's passion for music, art, and theater as they traveled the globe on performance tours. She carried forward their joint vision in the completion of this book and in her support for the arts.

Table of Contents

Contents Illustrations Foreword by Jim Svejda Acknowledgments 1. Bucharest to Portland and Back 2. I Become a Violinist 3. New York and Kneisel 4. More Kneisel - Auer - Graduation - Chamber Music 5. The Musical Art Quartet Is Launched: I Become an Art Collector 6. The Musical Art Quartet 7. In Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet 8. Paris! 9. Italian Concerts: Encore Paris 10. "The Real Thing" : Romance and Annette 11. Together in Europe - Our Honeymoon 12. Hometown Triumph and California Here We Come! 13. The Goal: Los Angeles 14. Hollywood: The Golden Years 15. Another Aspect of Hollywood - Art and Music: William Grant Still - Darius Milhaud 16. Bernard Herrmann - Another View: Other Friends, Anthony Collins - Herrmann's Rebirth and Apotheosis 17. Concert Opportunities - Works Progress Administration: Music - Art - Theater - Trail-blazing 18. Vivaldi Discovers Me - We Meet Francis Poulenc - Historic Recordings 19. En Route to France via Honolulu 20. En Route to Venice via Zurich - after Visiting Poulenc 21. Unfinished Business: Meeting Malipiero 22. Brussels con Moto: Paris Recordings - Arrival in Brussels - Fateful Meeting with Paul Collaer 23. More Poulenc, More Brussels: Paris Premiere of 'Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione' 24. Introducing Vivaldi to America: Opus 9 Reveals Another Masterpiece - the Paris Premiere of 'La Cetra' 25. Unexpected North African Tour: Paris Friends! 26. We Meet Samuel Barber in San Francisco - Drama in Holland: Friendships with Artists 27. South American Adventures 28. Utrecht Recordings - War Crimes - Search for Spohr 29. Paris - the Survivor - Maryan 30. London Adventures in Music and Art 31. Northern Exposure 32. Miracle in Milan: Recording in Paris 33. Return to Los Angeles: Korngold Memorial Concert 34. Adventures behind the Iron Curtain 35. Recordings at Last and Lebduska Mystery 36, Cousin Mico Kaufman, Sculptor 37. The Dybbuk - a Devil to Produce 38. From Sicily to Tahiti 39. Hazardous Travel Postscript Appendix 1 - Reviews Appendix 2 - Los Angeles Program Notes, 9 December 1956 Appendix 3 - The Changing Recording World Appendix 4 - Violin Editions of Louis Kaufman Appendx 5 - A Louis Kaufman's Filmography: Concertmaster in the Golden Years, a Partial List Louis Kaufman Discography Bibliography Louis Kaufman CD Playlist
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