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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163169103321

Autore

Kreisler Fritz

Titolo

Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Lucknow Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781782891956

1782891951

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 pages)

Disciplina

940.48

Soggetti

Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962

World War, 1914-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- I -- II -- III -- ILLUSTRATIONS.

Sommario/riassunto

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-American violinist and composer of great renown, often regarded as one of the finest violinists of all time. He was, however, for a brief time an officer of the Austrian army during the First World War; but unlike the voluminous literature of Gallipoli and the Western Front in English, his memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front provide a rare insight seldom seen. Although clearly not a full record of the time that he spent in the Austrian service, before being honourably discharged after being wounded, the events that he chronicled are of considerable detail, artistic merit and lasting interest.