Strakosch, Maurice and Max (brothers) <p>Maurice and Max Strakosch were brothers who emigrated from Austria. Their connection to the Pfaff&#39;s circle is tenuous; only two known sources tie them to Pfaff&#39;s directly. Furthermore, the sources indicate that contemporaries may have confused Maurice and Max with one another.</p><p>Maurice Strakosch was born in Moravia, of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire sometime around 1824. He quickly demonstrated a unique gift for music, performing as a concert pianist at the age of eleven. His musical talents also extended to opera where he gained renowned as a tenor. (<span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f367-b909-ab66-1754c56df025">&ldquo;Death of Maurice Strakosch,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>October 10, 1887; &ldquo;Forty Years A Manager,&rdquo; <em>The New York Times, </em>October 11, 1887) In 1843 he moved to New York to travel with Salvatore Patti, another tenor who managed a traveling opera troupe. (&ldquo;Forty Years A Manager,&rdquo;<em> The New York Times</em>, October 11, 1887; Katherine K. Preston, <em>Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States 1825-1860</em>, pg 129-130, 145). <span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f363-04c0-bf95-28067550fd25">Maurice eventually managed his own troupes for a number of years, composing and performing his own pieces along the way (Preston, <em>Opera on the Road, </em>203, 251)</span>. Maurice began his own company and developed a partnership with Bernard Ullman, which lasted until 1860. The two may have met at Pfaff&#39;s to discuss their careers (Lause, 59). One of the few sources that places Maurice in the Pfaff&#39;s circle is a recollection of journalist Charles Godfrey Leland who remembered Maurice as &ldquo;hard to deal with and irritable&rdquo; (<cite>Memoirs</cite> 344). Maurice died in Paris on October 9, 1887 (<span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f367-b909-ab66-1754c56df025">&ldquo;Death of Maurice Strakosch,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>October 10, 1887; &ldquo;Forty Years A Manager,&rdquo; <em>The New York Times, </em>October 11, 1887).</p><p>Max Strakosch was born in Moravia, of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire on September 27, 1835. He followed his brother to the United States in 1853. He was not known as a musical performer as was his brother, but Max did gain recognition as&nbsp;a theatre manager and impresario. In January, 1862, Max wrote a letter to Gottschalk offering him the chance for a round of American concerts. Gottschalk accepted and began the concert series in New York in February (G. Chase 296). After Maurice left to tour Europe and manage his sister-in-law Adelina Patti&rsquo;s concerts, Max remained in the United States and continued to put on operatic performances, including <cite>Don Pasquale</cite>, <cite>Norma, Il Trovatore, La Favorita, Don Giovanni</cite>, and <cite>Lucrezia Borgia</cite> (Tompkins and Kilby 156, 225). Max frequently found himself arguing with creditors and city officials as he tried to pursue his management career. <span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f370-671a-3e81-c25bb34cccc3">In the fall of 1874 Max sued the New York City Police Commissioner who had broken up some of Max&rsquo;s performances in order to &ldquo;preserve the peace.&rdquo; Max contended that the police were not concerned with preserving order, but only wanted to shut down his performance because it was performed on a Sunday (&ldquo;Sunday Concerts: Is the Law Forbidding Them Constitutional - The Case of Max Strakosch against the Police Commissioners&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>November 26, 1874). Not unlike many impresarios, Max struggled to maintain the finances necessary for the production of his shows (<span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f36c-9cb1-e0d4-52575bae60b3">&ldquo;Max Strakosch Bankrupt,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>May 27 1881). In 1878 Max was <span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f36f-e1d4-eaff-1fe35039d101">sued for a breach of contract of marriage and attempting to seduce a woman (&ldquo;Max Strakosch&rsquo;s Trouble,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>June, 14 1878). He did achieve a measure of success and in 1883 Max opened his own theatre in New York (<span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f36c-f1c7-203e-1c0947005b56">&ldquo;Max Strakosch&rsquo;s New Theatre,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times, </em>June 1, 1883). In the obituary of Charles Ignatius Pfaff, Max is mentioned as one of the &quot;Knights of the Round Table&quot; who had made their impression on the establishment (&quot;In and about the City: Death of Charles I. Pfaff,&quot; 2) In 1888 Max fell ill and struggled with his health for the remaining four years. He died <span id="docs-internal-guid-292707d6-f372-8c3c-aa00-88015ce1408c">on March 17, 1892 (&ldquo;Max Strakosch Dead,&rdquo; </span><em>The New York Times </em>March 18, 1892).</p> References & Biographical Resources\n"; <div class="view view-works-related-to-people view-id-works_related_to_people view-display-id-default"> <div class="view-content"> <ul id="views-bootstrap-works-related-to-people-default"class="views-bootstrap-list-group views-view-list-group"> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="59022" about="/node/59022" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/59022">"Appletons&#039; Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, Pickering-Sumter." In <em>Appletons&#039; Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, Pickering-Sumter</em>, edited by Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton &amp; Co., 1888.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>"His piano compositions were once very popular, among them the music of one of Bayard Taylor's songs" (716).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 716]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58959" about="/node/58959" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58959">Chase, Gilbert. <em>America’s Music: from Pilgrims to the Present</em>. Urbana: UP Illinois, 1987.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>In January, 1862, he wrote a letter to Gottschalk offering him the chance for a round of American concerts. Gottschalk accepted and began the concert series in New York in February, soon lending his sympathetic support to the Union cause. </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 296]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="56858" about="/node/56858" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/56858">Figaro [Clapp, Henry Jr.]. "Dramatic Feuilleton." <em>New York Saturday Press</em>, August 19, 1865, 40-41.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58960" about="/node/58960" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58960"><em>Illustrated New York. The Metropolis of To-day</em>. NY: International Publishing Co., 1888.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>The text mentions that Gramercy Park between 20th and 21st streets and 3rd and 4th Avenues is the "abode of many old families" (80) including Max Strakosch.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 80]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55807" about="/node/55807" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55807">"In and about the City: Death of Charles I. Pfaff. Something about the Proprietor of the Once Famous &quot;Bohemia.&quot;." <em>New York Times</em>, April 26, 1890, 2.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>The obituary identifies him as one of the "Knights of the Round Table" of the "lions of Bohemia."</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 2]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="59827" about="/node/59827" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/59827">Kellogg, Clara Louise. <em>Memoirs of an American Prima Donna</em>. New York : G. P. Putnam&#039;s Sons, 1913.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 200-201,204-205,240,289,292,294-296,300,303,359]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60173" about="/node/60173" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60173">Lause, Mark A. <em>The Antebellum Crisis and America&#039;s First Bohemians</em>. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="57886" about="/node/57886" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/57886">Leland, Charles Godfrey. <em>Memoirs</em>. New York: D. Appleton &amp; Co., 1893.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Leland mentions Max's brother, with whom he collaborated in business, as "hard to deal with and irritable."</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 344]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55929" about="/node/55929" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55929">Miller, Tice L. <em>Bohemians and Critics: American Theatre Criticism in the Nineteenth Century</em>. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1981.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Listed as Maurice Strakosch. Director of the American Company performance group.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 45]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="56556" about="/node/56556" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/56556">Odell, George C.D. <em>Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VIII (1865-1870)</em>. New York:Columbia University Press, 1936.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>In the 1866-67 season he assembled the Max Strakosch Alliance which put on a "grand inaugural concert" Oct. 1, 1866 at Cooper Institute (228).</p> <p>Strakocsh and Maretzeck were the team with "wretched management" of the Academy of Music that could not bring Adelina Patti (diva) to their stage (374).Odell mentions that in the 1868-69 season they presented Clara Lousie Kellogg, who had had success in Europe, at the Academy of Music, in concerts ending with the third act of <cite>Faust</cite>.This was quite a popular concert series (471).</p> <p>It is important to note that Max Strakosch is NOT Maurice Strakosch - they are brothers.Maurice was married to Amalia Patti and helped her sister Adelina get her very successful career started (653).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 228,374,471,653,682]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55847" about="/node/55847" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55847">Odell, George Clinton. <em>Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VI (1850-1857)</em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>(Information here may also be for his brother, Maurice.)Strakosch served as pianist in a concert of Maretzke on Jan. 11, 1851, at Tripler Hall. He seems to have been a figure in the concert scene from 1850-56; his wife also played with him. At the Academy, in late January of 1857 (575), he conducted the opera, subsequently starting a new season of opera that February.He held concerts in Brooklyn in the 1856-57 season and also ran a series of 4 subscription concerts for which advertisments in the <cite>Star</cite> and the <cite>New York Herald</cite> stop around Jan 24 - the date of the first concert.Because of this, Odell is unsure whether the shows at the Athenaeum (scheduled for 1/24, 1/31, 2/5, 2/12 $1 admission + $0.50 for reserved seating) ever ran (601).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 92,265,502,507,575,576,600,601]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55935" about="/node/55935" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55935">Odell, George Clinton. <em>Annals of the New York Stage: Volume VII (1857-1865)</em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Strakosch brought distinguished instrumentalists to New York on Feb.13, 1865 for the 1864-65 musical season at Niblo's Saloon.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 694]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="57452" about="/node/57452" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/57452">Personne [Wilkins, Edward G. P.]. 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"Dramatic Feuilleton." <em>New-York Saturday Press</em>, April 17, 1860, 3.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58957" about="/node/58957" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58957">Racovița von Dönniges, Elena. <em>Princess Helene Von Racowitza: An Autobiography</em>. NY: Macmillan Company, 1910.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Racovita states regarding her career, "I had picked out Max Strakosch, who was then the best impresario, and whom I knew and found very sympathetic. We had already arranged for several tours, and I was ready with a number of roles" (336). After a disagreement between Strakosch and her husband, Serge von Schewitsch, about the length of the tour, Racovita did not sign the contract.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 336]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="59828" about="/node/59828" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/59828">Spofford, Harriet Prescott. <em>Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of The Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times</em>. Hartford, Conn. : A. D. Worthington, 1884.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Spofford mentions that Kellogg sang in America under the management of Strakosch (380).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 380,383]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58958" about="/node/58958" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58958">Tompkins, Euguene and Quincy Kilby. <em>The History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901</em>. Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1908.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Tompkins mentions Strakosch's productions of <cite>Don Pasquale</cite> and his season of Italian opera including <cite>Norma, Il Trovatore, La Favorita, Don Giovanni</cite>, and <cite>Lucrezia Borgia</cite>.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 156, 225]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div>