Friml, Rudolf
(1879–1972)> COMPOSER
Rudolf Friml Composer Prague, Czechoslovakia, December 7, 1879; Los Angeles, California, November 12, 1972. Friml studied at the Prague Conservatory under Antonin Dvořák and became an accompanist to violinist Jan Kubelik, who toured Europe and the United States. On his visit to America in 1906, Friml decided to stay. While he was pursuing a concert career, he was asked to work on an operetta for opera star Emma Trentini, who had just scored a huge success in Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta…