Joseph Knecht

[1] Joseph Knecht was born in 1864 in Bukovina in the Austrian Empire, where he played the violin from an early age.

After Boston he moved to the Metropolitan Opera where he advanced to assistant concertmaster then associate conductor.

The innovation was so successful that it became Knecht's full-time, year-round occupation in 1912, and continued until May 1926, when he resigned to concentrate on his radio work.

In his sixties, from February 1925 he was also conductor of the popular B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Band on the sponsored radio show.

There then seems to be a gap in Knecht’s recording career until he led the B F Goodrich Silvertown Cord Band back at Victor from 22 September 1925 to 31 January 1928.