Ossy Renardy (26 April 1920 – 3 December 1953) was an Austrian classical violinist, who made a major impression in Europe before migrating to the United States at age 17.
He returned to the concert stage after the war, but only five years into his adult career he was killed in a car crash in New Mexico, at the age of 33.
[1] He was first seen in public at age 11, and then joined a touring variety troupe for a season in Merano, Italy,[1][2] beginning on 27 October 1933.
The following year (1940) he made the world premiere recording of the complete Caprices (albeit in an arrangement for violin and piano by Ferdinand David, the piano part played by Walter Robert; the first recording of the Caprices in their original solo violin form was not till 1947, by Ruggiero Ricci).
[7]) Renardy was already playing for the USO in 1941, and the following year he enlisted in the United States Army, becoming an American citizen in 1943.
[1][3] After the war he studied in New York with the famous pedagogues Theodore and Alice Pashkus in order to prepare himself for appearing anew on the stage.
1919 Vienna, d. 2006 Albuquerque NM; no relation to his regular accompanist Walter Robert)[7] was driving him from their last concert at Las Cruces, New Mexico, en route to their next engagement in Monte Vista, Colorado.
Gramophone's obituary of March 1954 said: "At thirty-three he seemed destined to don the mantle of his compatriot Kreisler, whose style of playing was not dissimilar".
[3] Irving Kolodin reviewed the set in "The New Guide To Recorded Music" (Doubleday (publisher), New York, 1950), saying "There is no single merit in the Renardy to give it precedence over the Szigeti or Heifetz or Neveu, save a richer serving of the colors in the score than previously provided by any source.