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CDV - Maurice Strakosch (Brother of Max) 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. (“Death of Maurice Strakosch,” The New York Times, October 10, 1887; “Forty Years A Manager,” The New York Times, October 11, 1887) In 1843 he moved to New York to travel with Salvatore Patti, another tenor who managed a traveling opera troupe. (“Forty Years A Manager,” The New York Times, October 11, 1887; Katherine K. Preston, Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States 1825-1860, pg 129-130, 145). Maurice eventually managed his own troupes for a number of years, composing and performing his own pieces along the way (Preston, Opera on the Road, 203, 251). Maurice began his own company and developed a partnership with Bernard Ullman, which lasted until 1860. The two may have met at Pfaff's to discuss their careers (Lause, 59). One of the few sources that places Maurice in the Pfaff's circle is a recollection of journalist Charles Godfrey Leland who remembered Maurice as “hard to deal with and irritable” (Memoirs 344). Maurice died in Paris on October 9, 1887 (“Death of Maurice Strakosch,” The New York Times, October 10, 1887; “Forty Years A Manager,” The New York Times, October 11, 1887).

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