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Fritz Saphir

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Probably the proprietor of a piano business in Palestine.

One of eight children born to Josef and Mathilde Saphir. He was a fine violinist, but nothing is known for certain about his professional career. His son Uri ran the Saphir Music Shop in Jerusalem for many years; and for this reason it is probable that Fritz is "der junge Saphir" ("the young Saphir" or "Saphir junior") with a piano business in Palestine, to whom Schenker refers in his diary (October 3, 1924) and, many years later, in a letter to Moriz Violin (May 9, 1933).

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  • Personal communications from Dennis Saphir, May 9 and 15, 2015

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  • William Drabkin

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Correspondence

  • OJ 6/8, [24] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Violin, dated May 9, 1933

    Schenker suggests a possible time for Wolf’s first lesson, and a schedule for him and Miss Weber. He is surprised to hear that Violin is thinking of emigrating to Palestine, and suggests that the Jews there should come to Vienna to study with himself as a “first-class Jew.” Their summer plans are not yet fixed.

Diaries