Jacques Stückgold

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. 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 Karlsruhe and then in Munich, where he sang at the National Theatre Munich. In 1924, he was appointed professor of singing at the Universität der Künste Berlin.[3]

Stückgold married his singing student Grete Schneidt, who made a great career as soprano. They had a daughter Eva, born in 1919, the marriage was divorced in 1929. Even before the Machtergreifung by the Nazis in 1933, Berlin lecturers such as Max Trapp, Romuald Wikarski and Valeska Burgstaller[4] were removed from the university. Stückgold was subsequently dismissed in autumn 1932 by the rector Georg Schünemann for racist reasons.[1] and had to emigrate to the US, disenfranchised and robbed. From 1933 to 1937 he was still a professor of singing at the City College New York.[5]

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

Stückgold died in New York City at the age of 78.

Publications
  • Über Stimmbildungskunst
  • Der Bankrott der deutschen Gesangskunst

Further reading
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss, (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945[7] Vol II, 2 Munich : K. G. Saur Verlag 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2, p. 1144
  • Großes Sängerlexikon, CD-ROM, Directmedia, Berlin 2000, :23567 f.

References
  1. 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
  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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