WEIR, FELIX FOWLER

WEIR, FELIX FOWLER. Concert violinist (8 October 1884 in Chicago, Illinois; 9 May 1978 in Fairlawn, New Jersey). He studied violin as a child, encouraged by an uncle who was an amateur musician. He first played on a public concert at the age of eleven. He obtained his musical education at Chicago Musical College; after graduation he went abroad to study at the Conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, but had to return because of death in the family. He was an assisting...