Ondříček, František
Ondříček Emanuel, *6 December 1880, †30 December 1958, Czech violinist, son of Jan. He began learning to play the violin under the guidance of his father, and in 1894–99, he studied at the Prague Conservatory in the class of O. Ševčik. He gave concerts in Russia, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, London and the United States, where he settled permanently in 1910. From 1912, he worked as a teacher in New York and Boston at The Ondricek’s Studios of Violin Art, which he founded, and at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University from 1956. He composed the String Quartet (1924), and violin pieces (including arrangements). He is the author of The Book of Tone Production and Expression on the Violin (1931).