Frank Hruby (1856-1912 center) was the founder and patriarch of one of Cleveland, Ohio's leading music familes. A native of Bohemia, he traveled throughout Europe as a musician and conductor before migrating to Cleveland in 1884, where he organized the Great Western Band. His eight children all became musicians playing at least two instruments. Four of the siblings were founding members of the "then" Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Two others would go on to play with the Orchestra which meant that a member of the Hruby family played with the Symphony for nearly 30 years. In 1916, two of his children founded the Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland's Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood which today operates as the Broadway School of Music & Art.
Hruby Family Orchestra
