Austria’s most important violin competition dates back to the prize that violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler privately donated every year, before 1938, for the best violin student at the Vienna Music Academy.
1979 saw the year that the competition became international, where violinists of all nationalities were able to compete.
Since 1979, the International Fritz Kreisler Society organizes the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition every four years in Vienna, Austria.