Fritz Kreisler (Vienna, February 2, 1875 - New York, January 29, 1962) was an Austrian composer and violinist.
Fritz (Friedrich) Kreisler was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. He studied first in his city, completing his studies in Paris, under the guidance of, among others, by Léo Delibes, and Jules Massenet. After being rejected at an audition for the Vienna Philharmonic, he left music for medicine and painting. He returned triumphantly to the violin in a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1899, and came to success in America during subsequent tour from 1901 to 1903.
In America again before the end of World War I, which had taken part in the ranks of the Austrian army to leave early to injury. In 1924 he returned to Europe, living first in Berlin and, since 1938, in Paris, before returning to the USA in 1943, where requested and was granted citizenship as a result of racial persecution.
In 1962 he died in New York.
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