Gisella Neu Explained

Gisella Neu
Birth Name:Gisela Neu
Birth Date:April 25, 1908
Birth Place:Konskau, Austrian Silesia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other Names:Gisella Neu-Fishler
Occupation:Violinist

Gisella Neu (April 25, 1908 – December 22, 1989), later Gisella Neu-Fishler, was an American violinist, born in Austria-Hungary.

Early life and education

Neu was born in Konskau in Austria-Hungary (now Konská, part of Třinec in the Czech Republic). She was sometimes described as Hungarian.[1] [2] She studied at the Budapest Conservatory of Music,[3] and in the United States with A. H. Trouk.[4]

Career

Neu performed in Budapest, Vienna, and Havana as a child.[5] [6] She performed in New York City for several years, between spring 1925[7] [8] and 1930.[9] [10] She was also heard on radio programs in this period.[11]

The New York Times reported in March 1929 that Neu's "intonation is generally accurate, her tone warm and ample in volume, and her interpretations are musicianly if not notably brilliant or individual in style."[12] In December 1929, the Times found that her "extreme and manifest nervousness... made it difficult to arrive at a true estimate of her capabilities."[13] At the latter recital, she gave a first performance of a work by Max Fishler, a fantasia dedicated to her.

Neu continued as a violinist after she married Fishler in 1930.[14] She performed at a lecture on Wagner in 1935,[15] at a benefit concert in 1937,[16] and as a soloist at a 1948 concert for the International Music Lovers Guild.[17] In the 1950s and 1960s, as Gisella Neu-Fishler, she performed in Southern California.[18] [19]

Personal life

Neu married philosopher and writer Max Fishler in 1930; she also became a naturalized United States citizen that year. Her husband died in 1981,[20] and she died in 1989, at the age of 81, in Los Angeles.

Notes and References

  1. February 24, 1928 . Gisella Neu . The American Hebrew . 122 . 16 . 543.
  2. March 12, 1925 . Gisella Neu . Musical Courier . 90 . 11 . 33 . Internet Archive.
  3. News: 1952-03-13 . Spinoza to be Theme of Speaker at JCC . 2024-05-23. Newspapers.com . Lake Elsinore Valley Sun-Tribune . 9.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=3vk4AAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA59&ots=lODv2Bsp9z&dq=Professor%20Truek%20violin&pg=RA2-PA59#v=onepage&q=Professor%20Truek%20violin&f=false "Professor A. H. Truck"
  5. News: 1926-09-12 . Would Win in U.S. . 2024-05-22 . The Knoxville Journal . Newspapers.com. 22.
  6. February 1924 . Gisella Neu . Social . es . 10 . 2 . 42 . Internet Archive.
  7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-music-notes/147895444/ "Music Notes"
  8. News: 1925-12-06 . Brownsville Labor Lyceum (advertisement) . 2024-05-22 . The Standard Union . Newspapers.com . 14.
  9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-with-the-orches/147895325/ "With the Orchestras"
  10. News: 1929-12-27 . Neu Recital . 2024-05-22 . Times Union . Newspapers.com . 24.
  11. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-gisella-neu-soloist/147895198/ "Gisella Neu, Soloist"
  12. News: 1929-03-18 . Gisella Neu Heard; Youthful Violinist Gives a Musicianly Performance . 2024-05-23 . The New York Times . 80. 0362-4331.
  13. News: 1929-12-27 . Gisella Neu in Recital; Violinist Gives Ambitious Program at the Town Hall . 2024-05-23 . The New York Times . 26. 0362-4331.
  14. April 10, 1931 . Gisella Neu, Violinist . Musical America . 51 . 7 . 20 . Internet Archive.
  15. News: May 19, 1935 . Music Notes . 2024-05-23 . The New York Times. 0362-4331.
  16. News: November 24, 1937 . Music Notes . 2024-05-23 . The New York Times. 0362-4331.
  17. News: November 14, 1948 . Music Lovers Program; International Guild's Concert Is Directed by Ernst Fischer . 2024-05-23 . The New York Times. 0362-4331.
  18. Houdek, Dick. "Classical Music Previews" Valley Times (April 8, 1964): 22. via Newspapers.com
  19. September 1952 . Los Angeles . The American Theosophist . 235 . Internet Archive.
  20. News: 1981-12-06 . Fishler, Max (death notice) . 2024-05-23 . The Los Angeles Times . 53 . Newspapers.com.

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