Victor Arden

Victor Arden

Victor Arden was the stage name for an American pianist named Lewis John Fuiks (born 8 Mar 1893 Wenona, Illinois; d. 31 July 1962 New York City) who was best known as the piano duo partner of and co-orchestra leader with Phil Ohman from 1922 to 1932.

Selected compositions

1909

Education

Arden was a graduate of the University of Chicago and studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.

Family

Arden was married twice. He first married Ilse Alma Spindler (born April 1894) – a 1916 graduate of the University of Chicago – in Chicago, on May 2, 1917. Lewis and Alma had two sons: Robert Spindler Fuiks (1921–2009) and Lewis John Fuiks, Jr. (1919–2004). Victor remarried in the 1950s to Frances Newsom, a classical soprano.

External links

• William Edwards biography database, Ashburn, Virginia
• Robert Perry, piano roll historian, Auckland, New Zealand

References

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