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British businessman (1853 – 1918))
Alfred Schulz-Curtius (c. 1853 – 4 March 1918), also known as Alfred Curtis , was a German-British classical music impresario who was active primarily in continental Europe and the United Kingdom from the 1870s until the 1910s.
Schulz-Curtius was born in Kleinwolmsdorf near Radeberg and Dresden to Johann Heinrich Curtius and Agnes Schulz Curtius.[1] In 1876,[2] [3] he founded the eponymous Alfred Schulz-Curtius music and artists management agency in the West End of London at 44 Regent Street , Piccadilly Circus . He is most well known for his popularization of the music of Richard Wagner .[2] [4] [5] [6] In 1882, he arranged the first British staging of the epic Ring Cycle , conducted by Anton Seidl and directed by Angelo Neumann .[7] He became a British citizen in 1896.[1]
During his four or more decades of professional activity, Schulz-Curtius organized dozens of concerts at concert and recital venues such as St. James's Hall ,[7] Queen's Hall ,[8] [9] [10] the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden ,[11] Wigmore Hall ,[12] which was then known as Bechstein Hall,[13] and collaborated with other impresarios as well such as Robert Newman , founder of The Proms .
Alfred Schulz-Curtius had great enthusiasm for the string instruments designed by Dr. Alfred Stelzner [12] and went to great lengths to encourage their use by soloists , ensembles and orchestras.
The conductors with whom Schulz-Curtius worked include Hermann Levi ,[7] [9] Felix Mottl ,[7] [8] Percy Pitt ,[10] Hans Richter ,[7] [14] [15] and Henry Joseph Wood .[8] [9] [10] Others among the many artists whom he represented include pianist Ferruccio Busoni ,[16] violinist Jan Kubelík ,[17] soprano Dame Nellie Melba ,[17] and cellist Guilhermina Suggia .[13]
He married Helen Mary Perry in 1908, and they had at least one son, Alfred Siegfried Curtis.[18]
At the beginning of World War I , Lionel Powell[19] was taken on as a partner[2] in the agency (renamed Schulz-Curtius Powell) when Schulz-Curtius, a German national, was interned as an "enemy alien ", despite having become a naturalized British subject in 1896, and changing his name by deed poll to Alfred Curtis on 24 September 1914.[20] Powell continued to manage the agency through the 1920s[21] after the death of its founder in Bournemouth , Hampshire, on 4 March 1918.[22] He was 64 years old.
From the early 1930s, South African Harold Holt [2] [3] managed the agency as Harold Holt Ltd until his death in 1953. In 1956, Sir Ian Hunter joined the agency and, in 1969,[23] by which time Harolt Holt Ltd was owned by Ibbs and Tillett , purchased it.
In the late 1990s,[3] the agency which Alfred Schulz-Curtius had founded more than 120 years earlier merged with the Lies Askonas agency to form Askonas Holt.
References [ edit ]
^ a b c "The History of Askonas Holt" . Askonas Holt website . Archived from the original on 16 November 2007.
^ "In the World of Music: What the Composers, Players, Singers, and Managers Are Doing in Various Places" . The New York Times . 19 March 1899. p. 6. Full article .
^ "Alfred Schulz-Curtius' Grand Wagner Concerts (1894–98)" . Online database of library/archive holdings of concert programmes . Maintained by Cardiff University in collaboration with the Royal College of Music . Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2007 .
^ Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library: Music Archived 10 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine ("Brochure for 1898 Ring by Alfred Schultz-Curtius, Playbills 350, folio 64." British Library .)
^ a b c d e Christopher Fifield , Ibbs and Tillett : The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire (Chapter 3, pp. 25–26).
^ a b c "Of Music and Musicians" . The New York Times . 3 January 1904. p. 17. Full article .
^ a b c Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1946). My Life of Music . Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-5820-1 .
^ a b c M. (1 January 1911). "Mr. Percy Pitt" . The Musical Times . 52 (819): 293–295. doi :10.2307/905399 . JSTOR 905399 .
^ "Musical Matters Abroad" . The Pall Mall Gazette , as quoted in The New York Times . 29 January 1899. p. 6. full article .
^ a b James Christensen. "Dr. Alfred Stelzner: Pioneer in Violin Acoustics" . International Draeseke Society .
^ a b Guilhermina Suggia (January 1905). "O Regresso de Leipzig (The Return to Leipzig)" . Excerpt from Guilhermina Suggia – A Sonata de Sempre by Fátima Pombo) (in Portuguese). The Hague .
^ Autograph Letter Signed by RICHTER, Hans (1843–1916) . 31 May 1907.
^ Special Correspondence (8 December 1907). "A Boy Paderewski: Musical Prodigy Makes a Sensation in London" . The New York Times Section: The Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Dispatches, Page C4 . Full article .
^ Ferruccio Busoni (1895–1907). "Letters to his wife" .
^ a b "Melba-Kubelik Tour. Other Well-Known Artists to Join Concert Combination in America" . By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times . 6 February 1913. p. 4. full article . (Photo of Gabriel LaPierre Archived 15 June 2007 at archive.today with Jan Kubelík .)
^ London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932
^ "Obituary: Lionel John Manning Powell". The Musical Times . 73 (1068): 175. 1 January 1932. JSTOR 914478 .
^ "The London Gazette" . The London Gazette . 29 September 1914. Retrieved 1 May 2015 .
^ Kenyon, Nicholas (1 January 1980). "Beecham and the BBC Symphony Orchestra: A Collaboration That Never Happened". The Musical Times . 121 (1652): 625–628. doi :10.2307/961148 . JSTOR 961148 .
^ Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England .
^ Christopher Fifield , Ibbs and Tillett : The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire (Chapter 24, p. 341).
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