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Jakob Stolz

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Jakob Stolz

Birth
Styria, Austria
Death
2 Jun 1919 (aged 86)
Styria, Austria
Burial
Graz, Graz Stadt, Styria, Austria Add to Map
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Nummer B-26
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Jacob Stolz (18 July 1832 – 02 June 1919) was an austrian composer and teacher of music in Graz, son of Jacob Stolz Sr. (1807-1871) and Susanna Halter (1796-1864).
Stolz was a student of Simon Sechter and founded a Musical Education Institute in 1857 ''Musikschule Öffentliches Musik- Bildungsinstitut '' Mehlplatz 1,Graz.
The Institute was continued by his daughters, Pauline (1873-1935) and Susan (1874-1933) after his death. Stolz's heritage were his own invented music theories and about 130 compositions.
He was married to Ida Carolina Bondy, who was a pianist.They had 13 children, among them: Leopold Jacob Stolz ( 1866-1957) austrian composer and conductor, royal bandmaster and Robert Elisabeth Stolz (1880-1975) austrian composer and conductor and Mary Ida Lesky (1870-1959) mother of Dr. h.c. rer. pol. Albin Lesky, Maximilian Stolz (1868-1945) austrian actor and Elisabeth Giurco (b. 1872).
In rememberance of Jakob Stolz there is a plaque near the Starcke-Häuschen and the Turkish well on the Schlossberg in Graz.
Jacob Stolz (18 July 1832 – 02 June 1919) was an austrian composer and teacher of music in Graz, son of Jacob Stolz Sr. (1807-1871) and Susanna Halter (1796-1864).
Stolz was a student of Simon Sechter and founded a Musical Education Institute in 1857 ''Musikschule Öffentliches Musik- Bildungsinstitut '' Mehlplatz 1,Graz.
The Institute was continued by his daughters, Pauline (1873-1935) and Susan (1874-1933) after his death. Stolz's heritage were his own invented music theories and about 130 compositions.
He was married to Ida Carolina Bondy, who was a pianist.They had 13 children, among them: Leopold Jacob Stolz ( 1866-1957) austrian composer and conductor, royal bandmaster and Robert Elisabeth Stolz (1880-1975) austrian composer and conductor and Mary Ida Lesky (1870-1959) mother of Dr. h.c. rer. pol. Albin Lesky, Maximilian Stolz (1868-1945) austrian actor and Elisabeth Giurco (b. 1872).
In rememberance of Jakob Stolz there is a plaque near the Starcke-Häuschen and the Turkish well on the Schlossberg in Graz.

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austrian conductor and teacher of music



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