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

by Louis Kaufman, Annette Kaufman, Louis Kaufman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299183807
• ISBN13: 9780299183806
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.4"