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HUGO KREISLER (VIENNA, JANUARY 1, 1884 – BADEN, NEAR VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 10, 1929)

He was the brother of the violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962). Hugo Kreisler was the son of the Jewish doctor Samuel Kreisler (1845–1921) and his wife Anna Reches (1852–1909). After private cello lessons with Salomon Auber (1863–1934), he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig from 1899 to 1902. There he was, among other things, taught by Hans Sitt, Johannes Gottfried Merkel and Alois Reckendorf. He received cello lessons from Julius Klengel. Although he initially undertook concert tours that took him to the USA, London and Berlin , among other places , he ultimately did not strive for a solo career, unlike his brother Fritz. In 1907, Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930) founded the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra, forerunner of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Kreisler was solo cellist here from the time it was founded. Before the First World War, the orchestra gave concerts for several summers in the spa park of Baden near Vienna and, from 1917, in that of Franzensbad. Kreisler also played in a number of chamber music associations, for example in 1909/10 in the Viennese classical trio with Oskar Dachs (piano) and Rudolf Malcher (violin), in 1913/14 in the Vienna Tonkunstlerquartet (Rudof Malcher [1st violin], Francis Aranyi [2nd violin]). and Leo Siegele [viola]), 1917/18 with Margarete Löwit and Georg Steiner as a Viennese trio association and 1921–1926 in the Fitzner quartet. Hugo Kreisler also played with his brother Fritz, with the latter on the piano, and, among other things, arranged his compositions for cello came to the performance. In 1905, Hugo Kreisler married his wife Helene, née Heber. In 1908 their son Kurt was born. At the instigation of his sister-in-law Harriet Kreisler, Fritz’s wife, the couple ran a children’s home in Vienna- Grinzing. In 1929 the family moved to Baden near Vienna, where Hugo Kreisler died that same year. His wife and son fled Europe to the USA in 1938.

TRACKLIST

1. Viennese Folk Song (Arr. Hugo Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 729-B
2. Farewell to Cuchullin (Arr. by F. Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Charlton Keith (Piano) Victrola 3017-A
3. Serenade (Drigo) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 987-B
4. Miniature Viennese March (Fritz Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Charlton Keith (Piano) Victrola 3035-A
5. Syncopation (Fritz Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Charlton Keith (Piano) Victrola 3035-B
6. Serenade Espagnole (Chaminade-Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 66040
7. Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow) (Fritz Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 987-A
8. Serenade (F. Jeral-F. Kreisler) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 3017-A
9. Melody in F (Rubinstein) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 1039-A
10. Samctissima (Corelli) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and (Piano Raucheisen) Immortal Selection of Great Victor Artists JS-4-A
11. Abendlied (Schumann) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Charlton Keith (Piano) Victor 3036
12. La Cinquantaine (Gabriel-Marie) with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victor 1039
13. Apple Blossoms (Kreisler-Jacoby): I’m in love with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victrola 66116
14. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) Preislied with Fritz Kreisler (Piano) Victor Unpubl. 3776
15. Nina (Pergolesi) with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Charlton Keith (Piano) Victor 3036
16. Intermezzo No. 6 from Bizet’s Arlesienne Suite No.2 with Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and Michael Raucheisen (piano) Victor JS-4-B