You are bidding on one typewritten, personally signed certificate of American violin virtuoso and composer Florizel von Reuter (1890-1985).

Dated 10. December 1942.

"Certification. I hereby confirm that Mr. Kissel has violin lessons with me and that he is a professional musician. He must therefore have the necessary time to continue his violin studies."

With stamp "Professor Florizel von Reuter // Head of the soloist class at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory // Berlin W35, Blumenthalstr. 18, phone 218710" and handwritten signature "Florizel by Reuter".

The only matching address book entry refers to the music teacher Ernst Kissel, resident of Chausseestr. 99. It refers toSerious Adolf Kissel, b. at 19. September 1906 in Seidlitz (Landsberg an der Warthe district). on the 9th In July 1927 he married the stenotypist, who was nine years his senior, in Berlin ann Louise Marie Kohl (* 17. July 1897 in Berlin-Schoeneberg).

With a pencil note by Ernst Kissel: "Lessons: mid-1941 – mid 1943."

Format: 21 x 14.8cm.

Without envelope.

Condition: Document folded and side punched; Paper browned, with crease.Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: FM 211024

About Florizel von Reuter and the conservatory (source: wikipedia):

Florizel von Reuter (stage name of; * 21. January 1890 at Davenport, Iowa; † 10 May 1985 in Waukesha, Wisconsin) was an American violin virtuoso and composer.

Life: Von Reuter was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1891 to a German violinist and his wife, who was of Scottish descent. From 1897 to 1900 he received violin lessons from Max Bendix, concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He then studied with Émile Sauret in London and with César Thomson and Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels. He also studied with Henri Marteau at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. In his youth he also received composition lessons from Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Dukas and Vincent d'Indy, among others.

In 1903/04 he toured Switzerland, Austria, England, Romania, Russia and Scandinavia. In 1905/06 he gave concerts in Latin America and the West Indies. In 1907 and 1914/15 he undertook a concert tour through Germany. He was also court violinist to Queen Elizabeth of Romania and court pianist to Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.

After another phase of study, he was director of the Zurich Music Academy from 1916. In 1932 he became professor and director of the master school for violin at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 1934/35 he succeeded Wilhelm Stross as a member of Elly Ney's piano trio. His successor was Max Strub. From 1939 he worked at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin.

In the 1940s he returned to the USA. From 1951 to 1956 he was concertmaster of the Waukesha Symphony Orchestra.

He composed several pieces, including the opera Postmeister Wyrin (world premiere in Berlin in 1946).

He was also interested in parapsychology.

Fonts (selection)

Guide to Solo Violin Music. A sketch of their creation and development with a critical examination of their main works. M. Hesse, Berlin 1926.

(Hg.): Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen: The physiology of bowing on the stringed instruments. 5. Edition, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1928.

The Twilight of the gods. Hitler's Berlin. A novel by an American who experienced it. With a foreword by William D. Miller. Cultural Press, Waukesha 1962 [1963].

The Klindworth-Scharwenka Music Conservatory was a music institute founded in Berlin in 1893, which enjoyed the reputation of an internationally renowned training center for decades.

It emerged from the merger of the Scharwenka Conservatory, founded by Xaver Scharwenka in 1881 and taken over by his brother Philipp, with Karl Klindworth's music school, which had existed since 1883.

From 1908 the conservatory was in its own building on Genthiner Str. 11 (Berlin-Tiergarten), which included two large concert halls, the Blüthner Hall and the Klindworth-Scharwenka Hall. In the early 1940s it was in Berliner Str. 39, Berlin-Charlottenburg. From around 1950 to 1960 the institute was located at Braillestrasse 7 (Berlin-Steglitz). In 1960 teaching was discontinued.

directors

1881–1892: Xaver Scharwenka (Scharwenka Conservatory)

1890-1892: Wilhelm Langhans (Scharwenka Conservatory)

1883–1892: Karl Klindworth (Klindworth School of Music)

1893-1905: Hugo Goldschmidt

1893-1917: Philipp Scharwenka

1898–1924: Xaver Scharwenka (nominal only)

1905-1937: Robert Robitschek

1937-1960: Walter Scharwenka

Known teachers (selection)

Conrad Ansorge

Hans Basserman

William Berger

Fritz von Borries

Sergei Bortkiewicz

Gustav Bumcke

Max Butting

Hugo van Dalen

Hermione d'Albert

Hanns Eisler

Harold Genzmer

Alfred von Glehn

Bruno Henze

Wolfgang Jacobi

Elizabeth Jepe

Hugo Kaun

Leo Kestenberg

Walter Kirchhoff

James Kwast

Telemaque Lambrino

Hugo Leichtentritt

Moritz Mayer-Mahr

Heinrich Reimann

Florizel von Reuter

Nino Rossi

Marie Schmidtlein

Alfred Szendrei

JamesSimon

Hans Joachim Vetter

Vladimir Vogel

students (selection)

Siegfried Behrend

John Victor Bergquist

Theodore Bohlmann

Paul Dessau

RoZa Etkin

Rodolfo Holzman

Otto Klemperer

Margaret Klose

Rudolph Müller-Chappuis

Lotar Olias

Adalbert Luczkowski