Talk:Alfred Schulz-Curtius

message: →  Please see explanatory note* below citations.   A.  
;1870s
* History of Ibbs and Tillett, Christopher Fifield.  Index.Christopher Fifield,  Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire.  London: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.  , .  .  Preview on Google Book Search.  (General Index  “Schultz-Curtius, Alfred: pp. 21, 25, 106, 308, 341.  Schultz-Curtius and Powell: pp. 308, 309, 318.”)  Chapter 3.Fifield, Chapter 3, pp. 25-26.  “One of the leaders of the orchestra at the Wagner Festival in 1877 was Hermann Franke, who later enticed Richter back to London for a series of concerts at St James Hall in the summer of 1879.  Their success was immediate and so began the annual series of Orchestral Festival Concerts in May and June, later to become known as the Richter Concerts.  Franke initially collaborated with the impresario Alfred Schultz-Curtius, but the latter soon branched off into the field of opera such as the first British staging of the Ring in 1882 (directed by Angelo Neumann and conducted by Anton Seidl), and brought many famous conductors of Wagner to London including Mottl, Levi, Weingartner, Richard Strauss and the composer's son Siegfried.”  Chapter 22.Fifield, Chapter 22, p. 308.  “[The] agency had been founded in 1876 by Alfred Schulz-Curtius, primarily to promote Wagner's music in England, and it continued in business until the First World War when, as an ‘enemy’ alien, he was interned.  He took Lionel Powell into partnership (Schulz-Curtius and Powell, 44 Regent Street, London W1), and after Schulz-Curtius's death, Powell joined up with Harold Holt, a South African Jew, whose father was a diamond merchant.  Holt junior trained as a barrister but did not practice.  He was, according to the late Sir Ian Hunter in an interview with the author in 1996, ‘the greatest raconteur in London, who wasted away his fortune’.   When Powell died in 1931, the agency became known as Harold Holt Ltd.  Holt died in 1953…”  Chapter 24.Fifield, Chapter 24, p. 341.  “In 1969, Ian Hunter bought Harold Holt Ltd from Emmie Tillett…  Harold Holt Ltd celebrated its centenary in 1976, taking its starting date as Alfred Schultz-Curtius's activities in London a century earlier.”
* History of Askonas Holt.
;1880s
* 1882: first British staging of the Der Ring des Nibelungen.  Fifield, Chapter 3, pp. 25-26.
;1890s
* 1891, November.   Schulz-Curtius organized an event at Bechstein,  Wigmore Street (this is now Wigmore Hall) to showcase Alfred Stelzner's instruments; further promoted them in a January 1892 article for the Musical News.
* 1892-1893 season.  Obituary for conductor Percy Pitt in May 1911 The Musical Times.
* 1894-1898:  "Grand Wagner concerts" at Queen's Hall,  twenty three programmes preserved in bound volumes.
* 1894 and 1895: concerts,  cited in January 1904 The New York Times.
* 1898.  The Pall Mall Gazette   quoted in January 1899 The New York Times in about the "triple production" of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1898.
* 1898.  Schulz-Curtius brochure for Der Ring des Nibelungen,  British Library, Sir John Ritblat Gallery:  Treasures of the British Library: Music (“Brochure for 1898 Ring by Alfred Schultz-Curtius, Playbills 350, folio 64.”)  Sir John Ritblat Gallery, the British Library.
* 1899, March.  Schulz-Curtius cited  in The New York Times ("Mr. Schulz-Curtius, who has done so much for the popularization of Wagner's music")
;1900s
* 1903 concert series at Queen's Hall. 
* 1903, 1904, 1906:  Ferruccio Busoni letters.
* 1905: Guilhermina Suggia letters. (Google translation: “The wild public of enthusiasm.  After a concert in Bechstein Hall [now Wigmore Hall], everyone thought that the instrument was Italian. Some people did not believe that it was German. I was contracted for all England until 1906 by impresario Alfred Schultz Curtius.”)  
* 1906-1908.  Fifield, Chapter 10,  p. 106.Fifield, Chapter 10,  p. 106. “But briefly returning to the company's first two years (1906-08), Ibbs and Tillett had stiff competition from such firms as Daniel Mayer (established in January 1890 at Chatham House, George Street, Hanover Square, ), H. Bernhardt's Philharmonic and Concert Direction (Regent Street), Schultz-Curtius (Regent Street), Leslie Hibberd (17 Hanover Square and manager of Erard's piano showrooms in Great Marlborough Street), Ethel L. Robinson (7 Wigmore Street), Chappell's (50 Bond Street), E.A. Michell with Philip Ashbrooke (7a Piccadilly Mansions), Hugo Görlitz (119 New Bond Street), L.G. Sharpe (established in December 1900 at 61 Regent Street), T. Arthur Russell Concert Direction (established 1905 at 13 Sackville Street), Carl Junkermann (122 Regent Street), Clairfield's Operatic & Concert Direction (1 Langham Place), Lionel Powell and William Sewell.”  
* 1907, May.  Hans Richter letter.  
* 1907, December.  Richter/Lengyel concert in New York City.
;1910s
* Fifield, ch. 22.
* Lionel Powell obituary in The Musical Times.  
* October 1913-April 1914 Nellie Melba and Jan Kubelík tour (Photo of Gabriel LaPierre with Jan Kubelík.)   arranged by Schulz-Curtius Powell.
;1920s
* 1928:  Powell's collaboration with Sir Thomas Beecham  two years before the BBC Symphony Orchestra was founded.
;1930s
* Fifield, ch. 22.
* History of Askonas Holt.
* Obituary for Lionel John Manning Powell.
;1950s
* 1956: Sir Ian Hunter joined the agency.
* 1953: Death of Harold Holt. Fifield, ch. 22.
;1960s
* 1969: Sir Ian Hunter bought Harold Holt Ltd from (Emmie Tillett).  Fifield, ch. 24.
;1990s
* Harold Holt Ltd merged with the Lies Askonas agency to form Askonas Holt.
;References
In re: years prior to the founding of the Alfred Schulz-Curtius agency in London 1876:
* John F. Runciman's Richard Wagner (** "Without him we should have been without a Richter, or Richter's introducer to the English, an Alfred Schulz-Curtius; without these two men we should have no ...") may have something.
:* 2005 reprint edition (, ) listed by Blackwell Publishing.  Obituary: John F. Runciman (JSTOR) The Musical Times, Vol. 57, No. 879 (May 1, 1916), p. 250.  "We regret to announce the following deaths:  JOHN F. RUNCIMAN, who died in London, on April I, was the author of several books, but was best known as the ..."
:* Richard Wagner by John F. Runciman (1866-1916), on Project Gutenberg
:* **Full quote found here in chapter 18, part 3 (XVIII, III):
::“… by creating Bayreuth set up a standard of musical execution that no one before him had thought possible.  All the great conductors of the last fifty years are, musically, his offspring.  Without him we should have been without a Richter, or Richter's introducer to the English, an Alfred Schulz-Curtius; without these two men we should have no Robert Newman or Henry J. Wood.  Wagner's influence has been further-reaching than many of us think…”  (added 02:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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