Arnold Schattschneider

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Arnold Schattschneider 1869-1930

Arnold Heinrich Schattschneider (born August 26, 1869 , in Gorczyn ( Wirsitz district ); † June 17, 1930 in Mannheim ) was a German musician, educator, founder and first director of the Conservatory in Bromberg .

His parents were the teacher Heinrich and his wife Florentina. The Schattschneider family came to Gorczyn in 1856, where his father became a primary school teacher, and then to Bromberg in 1872, where they settled in the Okole district.

He studied music in the Academic Master School in Berlin a . a. at Max Bruch .

In 1895 Arnold Schattschneider was appointed music teacher and head of the school orchestra at the Royal High School in Bromberg. He was also active in the girls' school, and since 1898 he became the director of the singing academy . At times he also headed the Bromberger Liedertafel founded in 1842 .

He became the founder and, from October 16, 1904, the first director of the Bydgoszcz Conservatory. From 1905 he directed the first professional chamber orchestra.

Arnold Schattschneider was a member of the General German Language Association and of the Bromberg Freemason Lodge "Janus im Osten".

In 1912 he moved to Görlitz , where he was appointed conductor of the choir at the conservatory.

In 1920 he became a professor at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim . He also worked as a guest conductor in Dresden , Cologne and Breslau .

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