Jacques Stückgold

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Jacques Stückgold, also Jakob Stückgold (17 January 1877 – 4 May 1953) was a Polish-German-American tenor and voice teacher.

Life

Born in Warsaw (Russian Empire), Stückgold[1] was the son of the banker Schlama Stückgold and Eva Rotmil. His elder cousin was the engineer and painter Stanislaus Stückgold [de]. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family interested in music. He studied singing in Warsaw, Milan, Venice and Pesaro, among others with Alessandro Bonci, Ottavio Nouvelli and Felice Coen.[2]

Stückgold became a voice teacher, in 1899 first in

Universität der Künste Berlin.[3]

Stückgold married his singing student

Among his students were Marcella Craft, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Zdenka Faßbender, Pál Komáromy, Anny Konetzni, Bruce Low, Zinka Milanov, Nell Rankin, Hans Tänzler, Marcel Wittrisch and Fritz Zohsel.[6]

Stückgold died in New York City at the age of 76.

Publications

  • Über Stimmbildungskunst
  • Der Bankrott der deutschen Gesangskunst

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b Dietmar Schenk: The Academy of Music in Berlin : Prussian Conservatory between Romantic Classicism and New Music, 1869 - 1932/33. Stuttgart : Steiner, 2004, p. 101, p. 138
  2. ^ Stückgold, Jacques, by Max Hoerberg
  3. ^ Stückgold (Stuckgoldt), Jacques on Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online [de]
  4. ^ on Valeska Burgstaller see Johannes Laas: Das geistliches Chorwerk Max Baumanns : Kirchenmusik im Spannungsfeld des Zweiten Vatikikanischen Konzils. Paderborn : Schöningh, 2013. train: Berlin, Univ. der Künste, dissertation, 2012 DNB
  5. ^ Stückgold, Jacques on Deutsche Biographie
  6. ^ Jacques Stückgold on University Hamburg
  7. ^ Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933 = International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés, 1933-1945 / Vol. II, The arts, sciences, and literature / ed.: Hannah Caplan, Belinda Rosenblatt. on WorldCat

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