Boris Kroyt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Kroyt

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1897

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Nov-1969

Profession: violinist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Boris Kroyt (3 June 1897 - 15 November 1969) was a classical violinist and violist.
He was the violist of the Budapest String Quartet from 1936 until the ensemble disbanded in 1967.
Kroyt was born to a Jewish-Ukrainian family in Odessa, but spent his early life and career in Germany where he had been a child prodigy violinist.
From the outbreak of World War II until his death at the age of 72, he lived in the United States and had become a naturalized U.S.
citizen in 1944.