Very Old Jackalope Mounted Antlers Jackrabbit, Very Rare And Unique Find (BB)
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Reference Number: Avaluer:23851438 |
"Sulzbach, Emil Sigismund. Banker. Composer. Patron. * 7.5.1855 Ffm., † 25.5.1932 Bad Homburg vd H., buried in the Jewish cemetery Rat-Beil-Straße in Ffm.Son of banker Rudolph S. and his wife Theodora, née Bass (1836-1890).
Aft...er completing a commercial apprenticeship, S. joined the Sulzbach bank, of which he became a partner in 1879. Already in addition to his bank apprenticeship, he studied music theory and composition, following his inclinations. In 1893 he left the banking business so that he could only devote himself to music as a privateer, initially by continuing his studies with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory.
As a committed sponsor and patron, S. was particularly concerned with Dr. Hoch's conservatory, whose board of trustees he had been a chairman since 1883, at times (1904-23). He donated significant amounts to the Conservatory, including the purchase of a grand piano (together with his brother Karl S., around 1903/04) and the organ for the concert hall (around 1911/12), but also promoted the Palmengarten orchestra and supported poor artists in her studies and donated generously to musicians in need, their widows and orphans.
The passionate hunter also campaigned for the establishment of nature reserves and sponsored the Senckenberg Museum.
Own compositions, especially chamber music pieces, songs and choral works, many of which were premiered in Ffm.
1915 Imperial Turkish Red Crescent Medal in bronze.
On October 9, 1932, Dr. Hoch's Conservatory held a memorial service for his honorary member Emil S., at which twelve of his songs were performed.
Married (since 1886) to Julie Marckwald from Berlin (1865-?), A cousin of Martha Marckwald (1857-1943), the wife of the painter Max Liebermann (1847-1935). Two sons, the publisher Ernst Rudolf S. (1887-1954), emigrated from Berlin in 1936 via Mexico to Sweden, where he worked as a lecturer for the Bonnier publishing house in Stockholm and helped to build the film history collection, and the manufacturer HerbertPaul S. (1894-1985), emigrated from Berlin in 1937/38 to England, where he made a diplomat after the Second World War for German-British reconciliation, and a daughter, LiliTheodora Louise S. (married to Boxberger since 1913, married to Sandkühler in second marriage, 1889-1973), who lived illegally in Berlin during the Nazi era until 1944, then fled to Salzburg and later lived in Freilassing. Ernst S. was married in the first marriage (1917-24) to Kerstin Strindberg (1894-1956), the daughter of the dramatist August Strindberg (1849-1912), in the second marriage to the graphic artist Renée Goldberger (1892-1978), who Ernst S.'s death took over as editor at Bonnier Verlag in Stockholm; From the first marriage came the son Christoph S. (1919-2010), who worked as a sculptor and graphic artist in Stockholm. Herbert S. was married in second marriage to the actress Beate Scherk (1896-1982 / 83), a niece of the conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973).
Partial discount in the ISG. Individual compositions and letters (to Engelbert Humperdinck, 1899, and to Nicolas Manskopf , about 1901-28) in the UB Ffm.
Emil-S.-Straße in Bockenheim."