Talk:Alfred Schulz-Curtius

Extended references
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 * 1870s
 * History of Ibbs and Tillett, Christopher Fifield. Index.  Chapter 3.  Chapter 22.  Chapter 24.
 * 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,  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.
 * 1906-1908. Fifield, Chapter 10,  p. 106.
 * 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  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 (ISBN 142194149X, ISBN 978-1421941493) 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) — A.)

*NOTE: I've placed the extended references here because quite a few of them have lengthy quotes which, while they might be useful in developing improvements to the article, are far too long in sum to include in the article in this form. — Athaenara ✉  06:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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