The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kéler-Béla, Albert Von

KÉLER-BÉLA, kā'lĕr-bā'lă, Albert Von, Austrian musical composer and violinist: b. Bartfeld, Hungary, 1820; d. 1882. Educated at Vienna, he became leader of the Gungl Band in Berlin in 1854. After several years' experience in the orchestra of the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 1867 he became conductor of the Kur Orchestra in Vienna, a position he held until 1873. He was very popular as a composer of orchestra and dance music and he is still looked upon as one of the best of writers of violin solos.