Emil Sulzbach

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Emil Sulzbach (born May 7, 1855 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 2, 1932 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a Frankfurt banker and composer. He was of Jewish faith.

Life

His father Rudolf Sulzbach was one of the influential and wealthy Frankfurt bankers and in 1856 was one of the founders of the Sulzbach Brothers banking house , which among other things provided equity capital for the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft .

After completing his commercial training, Emil initially worked at the Sulzbach brothers' banking house. At the same time he studied music and composition and decided to follow his inclinations. In 1893 he renounced the successor to his father and resigned from the banking business. From then on he intensified his musical education by studying at the Frankfurt Dr. Hoch's Conservatory with Iwan Knorr . In 1883 he became a member of the board of trustees and chairman from 1904 to 1923. In 1903/04 he and his brother Karl Sulzbach donated a concert grand from the Theodor Steinweg company . He also donated the financial means for equipping the concert hall with a new organ.

Emil Sulzbach composed numerous chamber music pieces, songs and arias, most of which were performed in Frankfurt am Main. He had the then architect Franz von Hoven (1842–1924) build an elaborate city villa in Frankfurt and a country villa in Königstein. In his honor, a street was named in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt (near Hamburger Allee).

His son Herbert Sulzbach attended the conservatory between 1906 and 1908.

literature

  • Franz Lerner: Existence is changing, demonstrated by the hundred-year history of the Frankfurt private bank Heinrich Kirchholtes & Co., vorm. Sulzbach brothers, 1856–1956 , Ammelburg 1956, 175 pp.
  • Hans-Dieter Kirchholtes: Jewish private banks in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report for the year 1918/19 ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 14.8 MB), p. 3, accessed on July 23, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
  2. ↑ Annual report for the year 1903/04 ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.0 MB), p. 7, accessed on July 24, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
  3. ↑ Annual report for the year 1911/12 ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 21.7 MB), p. 35, accessed on July 24, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
personal data
SURNAME Sulzbach, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1932
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe