František Drdla

From 1890 to 1893 he played violin in the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera, and from 1894 to 1899 he pursued his career as the director and concertmaster of the Theater an der Wien.

[1] By then a well-known concert violinist, Drdla toured throughout Europe (1899–1905) and later the United States (1923–1925).

These works generally mixed popular Bohemian (Czech) or Hungarian melodies and presented them à la viennoise.

became popular in more than a dozen different versions including those for orchestra, piano quintet, and string quartet.

Drdla's compositions were popularized by violinists Jan Kubelík, Marie Hall, Mischa Elman, Joseph Szigeti, Váša Příhoda and others.