You are bidding on one Letter of nobility from 1955.


Theme:a piano concert by the pianists Paul von Schilharsky (1918-1995) and Heinz Scholz (1897-1988) in Rome.

Both were teaching at the time Salzburg Mozarteum.

Written by the wife of Heinz Scholz (marriage 1948) Eleonore Scholz, b. from Lamberg, b. on the 5th December 1914 at Emsburg Castle as the daughter of the automobile pioneer Kunibert Graf Lamberg (1866-1930) and Josephine, née Countess Waldstein-Wartenberg (1877-1941).


courtstarts the countess Clara Ledochowska (*26. June 1911 in Sarns), secretary at the Austrian Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican).

Dated the 1st March 1955.

Excerpts: “Dear Clara! My husband, together with Paul Schilharsky, is giving on the 14th. March at the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome an evening on 2 pianos. It would be nice if you could go to this concert. Please make your friends aware of this too. [...] You probably heard Heinz playing on two pianos with his brother. But my brother-in-law now lives entirely in America. [...] Now greetings, dear Clara, and don't be angry about my request to use you for my two pianists, so that their appearance in Rome is accompanied by success not only artistically but also socially. [...] Your Lore Scholz-Lamberg."

Scope: two A4 pages; without envelope.

Condition: Paper browned, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Clara L. 85 Adel


About her husband and her father (source: SalzburgWiki) and Paul von Schilharsky (source: wikipedia):

Prof. Heinrich Heinz Scholz (*25. January 1897 in Steyr, Upper Austria; † 9. January 1988 in the city of Salzburg) was an Austrian pianist, piano teacher and professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Life: After completing commercial training, Heinz Scholz began a career as a concert pianist. After his first musical training in Linz, he studied piano with Felix Petyrek at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1919 to 1921 and then became a piano teacher. From 1928 to 1968 he led a piano class at the Mozarteum. After the Second World War he was involved in the reconstruction of the Mozarteum, was professor of piano and music theory at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" from 1954 to 1968, and head of the keyboard instruments department from 1959 to 1968. From 1964 to 1965 he was interim president of the academy. He was also director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum from 1964 to 1968.

His brother and musical partner Robert Scholz (* 1902; † 1986), who was no less important as a musician and piano teacher, emigrated to the United States of America in 1938 and emigrated to Taiwan in 1963, where he found his permanent home.

Honors

1962: Silver Mozart Medal

1971: Honorary member of the Mozarteum Salzburg University of Music

Citizens of the city of Salzburg


Kunibert Raimund Count of Lamberg (* 12. November 1866 St. Gotthard near Graz; † 4. August 1930 Ottenstein, Lower Austria) was a Salzburg pioneer in early automobiles.

Life: Count Kunibert was the son of Hugo Raimund Imperial Count of Lamberg (* 1833; † 1884, governor of Salzburg and dialect writer) and Countess Stolberg-Stolberg, born Bertha (* 1845; † 1924 in Emsburg near Hellbrunn).

In 1901, Kunibert Graf Lamberg was the second person from Salzburg to own a motor car: a Serpollet steam car. This car, powered by petroleum via twelve burners, produced four horsepower at 500 revolutions per minute. His car's license plate was D-1.

When the Salzburg Automobile Club, a forerunner of today's SAMTC, was founded in 1907, Count Lamberg became its first president.

Count Kunibert was married to Josephine née Countess Waldstein-Wartenberg (* 1877; † 1941). The couple had three daughters Franziska (married. Puchner), Maria (married Steinitz) and Eleonore.

In 1908, Count Kunibert Lamberg and his wife acquired Emsburg, which had belonged to his father from 1868 to 1872. He housed his important private collection there.


Paul von Schilhawski, also Paul Schilhawsky (*9. November 1918 in Salzburg; † 2. July 1995 in Paris) was an Austrian musicologist, pianist, conductor as well as university professor and rector at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Live and act

Education and studies: Paul von Schilhawsky graduated from the Theresianum Vienna in 1936 and then studied at the Mozarteum with Franz Ledwinka (piano) and Clemens Krauss (conducting). In addition, until 1942 he completed studies in musicology and German at the University of Munich with, among others, Rudolf von Ficker and Arthur Kutscher. Further piano studies with Winfried Wolf followed later.

Musical career: After his studies, Schilhawsky initially worked as an accompanist at the Salzburg State Theater and at the Mozarteum Opera School. In 1945 he was appointed opera conductor at the Salzburg State Theater and worked there in this position until 1948. Between 1948 and 1950 he set up an opera school in Lisbon on the initiative of Paul Sacher.

In parallel to his teaching work at the Mozarteum, he gave concerts as a solo pianist, as a chamber musician and accompanist in many European countries, in North, Central and South America and in the Middle and Near East. For over 20 years he formed the Mozarteum duo together with the violinist and professor Karlheinz Franke.

Schilhawsky gave several concerts at the Salzburg Festival. He gave a solo recital and appeared as a soloist with Schumann's piano concerto and piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as chamber music with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Hans Hotter, Edith Mathis, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Walter Berry, the pianists Erik Werba and Heinz Scholz, the Violinist Franz Bruckbauer and the Barylli Quartet. In 1954 he opened the newly founded Salzburg Palace Concerts together with the violist Paul Doctor and the clarinetist Alois Heine.

Teaching and work at the Mozarteum: Schilhawsky taught at the Mozarteum from 1951; In 1960 he was appointed associate professor and in 1970 full university professor. From 1953 to 1957 he led a piano class there and in 1958 took over the class for concert singing and song interpretation. He was also head of the International Summer Academies from 1972 to 1982, for which during this time artists such as Arleen Augér, Erna Berger, Kim Borg, Karl Engel, Karl Leister, Elisabeth Leonskaja, George London, Sándor Kónya, Ernst Kovacic, Hanna Ludwig, Heinrich Schiff, Michel Schwalbé, Giulietta Simionato and Sándor Végh were recruited as educators.

From 1969 to 1971, Schilhawsky was deputy president of the Mozarteum Academy and from 1971 to 1979 he was rector of the Mozarteum University. During his time, internationally known artists such as Sandor Végh, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Antonio Janigro came to the Mozarteum as teachers.

Schilhawsky also gave annual courses in the German song department at the Autrichien Institute in Paris. For his services, the city of Paris made him an honorary citizen. Schilhawsky received further honors and numerous audio recordings are available.

Honors (selection)

Large Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Silver Medal of the City of Paris

Honorary citizen of the city of Paris

Honorary cup of the city of Salzburg

Casals Medal

Honorary member of the Mozarteum


Life: After completing commercial training, Heinz Scholz began a career as a concert pianist. After his first musical training in Linz, he studied piano with Felix Petyrek at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1919 to 1921 and then became a piano teacher. From 1928 to 1968 he led a piano class at the Mozarteum. After the Second World War he was involved in the reconstruction of the Mozarteum, was professor of piano and music theory at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" from 1954 to 1968, and head of the keyboard instruments department from 1959 to 1968. From 1964 to 1965 he was interim president of the academy. He was also director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum from 1964 to 1968. Teaching and work at the Mozarteum: Schilhawsky taught at the Mozarteum from