Julius Schulhoff
Julius Schulhoff (born August 2, 1825 in Prague , † March 13, 1899 in Berlin ) was an Austrian pianist and composer .
Life
Schulhoff's father Israel Julius was a wealthy businessman in Prague, his mother Coelestine, daughter of the banker Gabriel Wallerstein, came from Dresden. Schulhoff was a student of Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek in Prague . After his first appearances in Dresden , he lived in Paris from the mid-1840s and was initially primarily active as a recognized piano virtuoso. Successful concert tours to Spain, England and Russia followed. After a few years, however, he gave up his solo career and devoted himself entirely to teaching and composition, first in Paris, from 1870 in Dresden and later in Berlin, where he was appointed professor a year before his death.
Julius's maternal cousin was Anton Wallerstein (1813-1892), composer, violinist and concertmaster in the Royal Saxon court orchestra in Dresden and at the royal court in Hanover.
In Dresden he married the widowed banker's wife Emma Hilzheimer, née Herzberg, and adopted her two daughters Melania and Else. Melania married the Polish pianist and composer Józef Wieniawski , Else Schulhoff-Hilzheimer moved to Berlin and worked as a women's rights activist alongside Alice Salomon and Maria von Bunsen , with whom she founded the German Lyceum Club.
He was the great uncle of the composer Erwin Schulhoff .
A number of compositions for the piano have come down to us by Schulhoff, some of which are counted as salon music , but whose musical quality is recognized.
Julius Schulhoff died in Berlin in 1899 at the age of 73 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Schulhoff's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.
literature
- J. Ludvová: Schulhoff (school yard), Julius (1825–1899). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 323.
- Barbara Boisits: Schulhoff (school yard), family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 . (therein: Julius)
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schoolyard, Julius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, pp. 157–160 ( digitized version ).
- Carl Krebs: Schulhoff, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 238-240.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1899 according to ÖBL / OeML, ADB states 1898.
- ↑ lexikus.de
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X , pp. 308, 478.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulhoff, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | School yard, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1899 |
| Place of death | Berlin |