Fiedler (Arthur) is born in Boston.

The son of Austrian immigrants, whose father, two uncles and a cousin were members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Germany and joins the BSO as a violist in 1915. He moves to 114 Hemenway Street in 1919, and, after turning to conducting, becomes the longtime director of the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1930.* A popular celebrity in Boston, known also for his groomed moustache and fire-chasing, Fiedler dies Brookline on July 10, 1979, and is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery.