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| Name = Bohumir Kryl
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| Born = {{birth date|1875|05|02|mf=y}}<br /> ], ]
| Died = {{Death date and age|1961|08|07|1875|05|02|mf}}<br /> ]
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| Instrument = cornet
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| Genre = ]
| Occupation = Soloist, bandleader, sculptor, financial executive
| Years_active = 1890s – 1950s
| Label = Columbia, Edison, Pathe, Victor
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| Notable_instruments = Cornet, violin
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'''Bohumir Kryl''' (1875-1961) was a Czech-American 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 ].

==Biography==
Bohumir Kryl (originally Bohumír Kryl) was born in ], ]<ref name=cornet>{{cite web |last= Johnson |first= Geary |url= http://www.angelfire.com/music2/thecornetcompendium/well-known_soloists_6.html |title= The Cornet Compendium- The History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet: WELL-KNOWN SOLOISTS (I-K) |accessdate=2011-07-14}}</ref> near ] on 2 May 1875.<ref name=Greene78>{{cite book |title= A Passion for Polka – Old-Time Ethnic Music in America|last= Greene|first= Victor| year= 1992|publisher= University of California Press|location= Berkeley|isbn= 0-520-07584-6|page= 78|pages= 355}}</ref> His first instrument was the violin, which he studied at age 10.<ref name=Greene78 /> He spent time performing both the violin and the cornet for a ] band.<ref name=Greene78 /> He also performed as an acrobat with the Rentz Circus, but an accident in 1886 ended this line of work.<ref name=cornet /> His father was a sculptor, and Bohumir also studied this art.<ref name=cornet /> He emigrated to the United States in 1889,<ref name=Greene78 /> paying the fare in part by performing with the ship’s orchestra.<ref name=choice>{{cite web |url= http://www.choicerecordings.com/bohumir.htm |title= Bohumir Kryl (1875 to 1961) |publisher= Choice Recordings |accessdate=2011-07-14}}</ref> He settled in ] looking for relatives, and was soon employed as a sculptor by General ] and also working on the ].<ref name=cornet /> During this time and joined the When Clothing Company Band, playing the cornet<ref name=choice /> and soloing on this instrument.<ref name=cornet /> Before long he was hired by], but left in 1898 to join Thomas Preston Brooke’s Chicago Marine Band, where he spent the next two years.<ref name=cornet /> During this time he studied with Weldon of Chicago’s Second Regiment Band.<ref name=cornet />. In 1901,<ref name=cornet /> he joined the Duss Band, which was based at ], at $800 per-month and became its assistant conductor in 1903.<ref name=choice /> This band, led by Frederick Innes, was not as well known, but he was hired as soloist, and the heavy touring schedule and two solos per concert gained him wide exposure.<ref name=cornet/> Studying bandleaders Creatore and Vessela, he adopted a wild hairstyle that became his trademark.<ref name=cornet /> He became acquainted with Joseph Jiran, who owned a Czechoslovakian music store in Chicago. With Jiran’s encouragement, he formed his own band in 1906<ref name=cornet /> styled as Kryl’s Bohemian Band by 1910<ref name=Greene78 /> with the Cimera brothers.<ref>{{cite book |title= A Passion for Polka – Old-Time Ethnic Music in America|last= Greene|first= Victor| year= 1992|publisher= University of California Press|location= Berkeley|isbn= 0-520-07584-6|page= 52|pages= 355}}</ref> This group worked for Columbia, Victor, and Zonophone, recording works by such composers as ], ], and ].<ref name=Greene78 /> ] interrupted his musical career, as he was serving in the U.S. Military.<ref name=Greene78 /> With the exception of He dismantled this band in 1931.<ref name=choice /> He later formed a “Women’s Symphony Orchestra” that featured daughter Josephine on violin and daughter Marie on piano. His public musical career ended in the 1930s, when he had difficulties with the ].<ref name=cornet /> Before his musical retirement, he had travelled more than 1 million miles and soloed more than 12,000 times.<ref name=cornet /> He later formed booking agency and a music bureau.<ref name=cornet /> He died in ] in 1961, leaving an estate valued at over 1 million dollars.<ref name=cornet />

==Musical style==
Kryl was one of the few musicians who enjoyed successful dual careers as a mainstream musical artist and as an ethnic recording artist. He transitioned from a star soloist with the Sousa outfit to a leader of ethnic Czech music,<ref name=Greene79>{{cite book |title= A Passion for Polka – Old-Time Ethnic Music in America|last= Greene|first= Victor| year= 1992|publisher= University of California Press|location= Berkeley|isbn= 0-520-07584-6|page= 79|pages= 355}}</ref> and made the transition back to the broader national audience. Because of his solo ability, he was branded “the ] of the cornet".<ref name=Greene78 /> He was a master of producing ]s and the technique of ] effects.<ref name=choice />

==Legacy==

==Compositions==

==Partial discography==

===As soloist===

{| class=wikitable
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! ] !! Catalog # !! Title !! Format !! Year !! Notes
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| Edison || 8254 || Answer || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1902 || <ref name=ECR>{{cite book |title= Edison cylinder records, 1889-1912: with an illustrated history of the phonograph |last= Koenigsberg |first= Allen| year= 1987|publisher= APM Press |pages= 172}}</ref>
|-
| Edison || 3833 || The Ambassador polka || 4-minute celluloid cylinder || 1919 ||
|-
| Edison || 8327 || Arbucklenian Polka || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1902 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 822 || At the Mill || 4-minute wax cylinder || 1911 || Re-issued on Blue Amberol 1995
|-
| Edison || 3547 || Ben Bolt || 4-minute celluloid cylinder || 1918 ||
|-
| Edison || 8253 || Carnival of Venice || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1902 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 8609 || Cary waltz || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 8307 || Columbia || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 ||
|-
| U.S. Everlasting || 1305 || Du, Du || 2-minute celluloid cylinder || 1909 ||
|-
| Edison || 8308 || Inflamatus from Stabat Mater || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 8663 || King Carneval polka || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 8745 || Kryl's favorite || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1904 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 9860 || Lvi silon || 4-minute celluloid cylinder || 1913 || Bohemian series
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| Edison || 9861 || Na prej || 4-minute celluloid cylinder || 1913 || Bohemian series
|-
| Edison || 8482 || National fantasia || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 9005 || O Promise Me || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1905 || <ref name=ECR />
|-
| Edison || 9812 || Orly Polskie || 4-minute wax cylinder || - || Bohemian series, Re-issued on Blue Amberol 9862
|-
| Edison || 9807 || Pode mlejnem || 4-minute wax cylinder || - || Bohemian series, Re-issued on Blue Amberol 9857
|-
| Edison || 9813 || Povidky s. Vidensky lesu || 4-minute wax cylinder || - || Bohemian series, Re-issued on Blue Amberol 9863
|-
| Edison || 790 || Praise Ye || 4-minute wax cylinder || - || Re-issued on Blue Amberol 2054
|-
| Edison || 8208 || Russian fantasia || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1902 || <ref name=ECR />
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| Edison || 8418 || Sing, Smile, Slumber || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
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| Edison || 8811 || Sweet Sixteen waltz || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1904 || <ref name=ECR />
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| Columbia || 32033 || Utility polka || 2-minute wax cylinder || 1903 || <ref name=ECR />
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| Edison || 9808 || Zeleny hajove || 4-minute wax cylinder || - || Bohemian series, Re-issued on Blue Amberol 9858
|}

===As leader===

==External links==
* Kryl performs “O Promise Me”

==References==
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