BREUER, HARRY (, Brooklyn, New York; , Brightwaters, New York). When
Harry Breuer
was 13, an illness prevented his practicing the violin, so he took up the xylophone, an instrument his father had given him, subsequently studying with xylophonist
Charles Daab
. Billed as the Boy Wonder
of the xylophone in 1919 at the New York Academy of Music, he won a job at the Strand Theater in Brooklyn, Warner Brothers’ Brooklyn studios, and went on to solo...
Breuer, Harry
(1901–1989)