Reiser, Alois

Composed 1934. First performance Los Angeles, 24 January 1936, Los Angeles Federal Symphony Orchestra of the WPA, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1919. First performance Los Angeles, 23 March, 1933, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conductor, Ilya Bronson soloist. Received honorable mention in the Hollywood Bowl competition, 1932.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Reiser was born on Apr. 6, 1887 in Prague, Czechoslovakia; studied with Antonín Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory; also took cello lessons and toured Europe; went to New York in 1905; played cello with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Symphony; worked as a theater conductor in New York, 1918-29; moved to Hollywood in 1929, where he worked as a composer and conductor at film studios; compositions include the opera Gobi (1912), Concerto for cello and orchestra (1916), String quartet in E minor (1916), Little coquette (1918), From Mount Rainier (1926), Slavic rhapsody (1927), Trio in F major (1931), and Erewhon (1931); he died on Apr. 4, 1977 in Los Angeles.

Composed 1910. First performance Prague, August 1911, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, W. Zemanek conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1915. First performance Los Angeles, 8 March, 1931, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Biography

Reiser was born on Apr. 6, 1887 in Prague, Czechoslovakia; studied with Antonín Dvorák at the Prague Conservatory; also took cello lessons and toured Europe; went to New York in 1905; played cello with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Symphony; worked as a theater conductor in New York, 1918-29; moved to Hollywood in 1929, where he worked as a composer and conductor at film studios; compositions include the opera Gobi (1912), Concerto for cello and orchestra (1916), String quartet in E minor (1916), Little coquette (1918), From Mount Rainier (1926), Slavic rhapsody (1927), Trio in F major (1931), and Erewhon (1931); he died on Apr. 4, 1977 in Los Angeles.