Bohumir Kryl

Bohumir Kryl was a CzechAmerican financial executive and art collector who is most famous as a cornetist, bandleader, and pioneer recording artist, for both his solo work and as a leader of popular and Bohemian bands. He was one of the major creative figures in the era of American music known as the Golden Age of the Bands.

Bohumir Kryl was born in Hoice, Bohemia, near Prague, onMay 1875. His first instrument was the violin, which he studied at age 10. While attending school in Hoice he was classmates with Jan Kubelk, with whom he maintained correspondence. He spent time performing both the violin and the cornet for a circus band in Prague. He also performed as an aerialist acrobat with the Rentz Circus in Germany, but an accident in 1886 ended this line of work. His father was a sculptor, and Bohumir also studied this art. He emigrated to the United States in 1889, paying the fare in part by performing with the ships orchestra. Moving to Chicago, English sculptor H.R. Saunders furthered his profession in that area. Bohumir followed Saunders to Indianapolis and was soon employed, along with his brother, as a sculptor by General Lew Wallace and also working on the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Simultaneously he joined the When Clothing Company Band, playing the cornet and soloing on this instrument. B

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