Alfred Schulz-Curtius was a classical music

Classical music

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 impresario

Impresario

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 who was active primarily in continental Europe

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 and the United Kingdom

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 from the 1870s until the 1920s.

In 1876, he founded the eponym

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ous Alfred Schulz-Curtius music and artists management agency in the West End of London

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 at 44 Regent Street

Regent Street

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, Piccadilly Circus

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. He is most well known for his popularization of the music of Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

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. In 1882, he arranged the first British staging of the epic Ring Cycle

Der Ring des Nibelungen

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, conducted by Anton Seidl

Anton Seidl

Anton Seidl was a Hungarian conductor.-Biography:He was born at Pest, Hungary. He began the study of music at a very early age, and when only seven years old could pick out at the piano melodies which he had heard at the theatre...

 and directed by Angelo Neumann.

During his four or more decades of professional activity, Schulz-Curtius organized dozens of concerts at concert

Concert

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 and recital

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 venues such as St. James's Hall, Queen's Hall

Queen's Hall

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, the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

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 in Covent Garden

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, Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

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, which was then known as Bechstein

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 Hall, and collaborated

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 with other impresarios as well such as Robert Newman

Robert Newman (impresario)

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, founder of The Proms

The Proms

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.

Alfred Schulz-Curtius had great enthusiasm for the string instrument

String instrument

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s designed by Dr. Alfred Stelzner

Alfred Stelzner

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  and went to great lengths to encourage their use by soloists

Solo (music)

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, ensembles

Musical ensemble

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 and orchestra

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s.

The conductors with whom Schulz-Curtius worked include Hermann Levi

Hermann Levi

Hermann Levi was a German Jewish orchestral conductor.Levi was born in Gießen, Germany, the son of a rabbi. He was educated at Gießen and Mannheim, and came to Vinzenz Lachner's notice...

, Felix Mottl

Felix Mottl

Felix Josef von Mottl was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three operas, of which Agnes Bernauer was the most successful, as well as a string quartet and numerous songs and other music...

, Percy Pitt

Percy Pitt

Percy Pitt was an English organist and conductor.A native of London, Pitt studied music at the conservatory in Leipzig, also working in Munich with Josef Rheinberger...

, Hans Richter

Hans Richter (conductor)

Hans Richter was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Biography:Richter was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was opera-singer Jozsefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory...

, and Henry Joseph Wood. Others among the many artists whom he represented include pianist

Pianist

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 Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni

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, violin

Violin

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ist Jan Kubelík

Jan Kubelík

Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Michle . His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and...

, soprano

Soprano

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 Dame Nellie Melba

Nellie Melba

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, and cellist Guilhermina Suggia

Guilhermina Suggia

Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia, was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Germany with Pablo Casals, and built an international reputation. She spent many years living in England, where she was particularly celebrated...

.

In the 1910s, early in World War I

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, Lionel Powell was taken on as a partner in the agency (renamed Schulz-Curtius Powell) when Schulz-Curtius, a German

Germans

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 national, was interned as an "enemy alien." Powell continued to manage the agency through the 1920s after the death of its founder.

From the early 1930s, South Africa

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n Harold Holt managed the agency as Harold Holt Ltd until the early 1950s. In 1956, Sir Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (impresario)

Sir Ian Bruce Hope Hunter was a British impresario of classical music. Known as ‘Mr. Festival’ to many in the arts world, Hunter was one of the most important figures in a post-World War II cultural renaissance in the United Kingdom...

 joined the agency and, in 1969, by which time Harolt Holt Ltd was owned by Ibbs and Tillett

Ibbs and Tillett

Ibbs and Tillett, “one of the legendary names in classical music artist management,” was a London-based classical music artist and concert management agency which flourished from 1906 through 1990 in the United Kingdom....

, purchased it.

In the late 1990s, the agency which Alfred Schulz-Curtius had founded more than one hundred twenty years earlier merged with the Lies Askonas agency to form Askonas Holt.