Louise / Aloisia Fischhof

Birth record http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/reprodukce/?zaznamId=160&reproId=... BRNO 121/12

ALOISIA Strakosch born 20 July prob. 1833 though the Brno Births image says 1831; in Brno, daughter of Leopold Strakosch {aka the Younger}, familiant in Butschkovitz & Julia Schwarz; Czech Jewish Registers Brno Births, line 131 on Image #13 of 192.

Louise married Julius Fischhof and died in 1874; see Neue Freie Presse death notice published June 6, 1874.

Aloisia's father was Löbl Strakosch the Younger, first cousin to Salomon Strakosch b. 1795

Among her siblings were

• Moises=Moritz=Maurice Strakosch, b. 1825, the opera impresario
• Markus=Max, b. 1834, also an impresario
• Ferdinand, b. 1837, also an impresario

This line is not yet fully on GENI...

Moritz Strakosch (Maurice) was the opera impresario,1825-1887 (Paris and NY) [MT Arnbom p. 120, top.]. He is not on GENI. Said to have been born at Seelowitz near Brno (in Czech -- Židlochovice, 11 mi S of Brno), he was actually the son of Salomon Strakosch's cousin Löbl Strakosh the Younger and wife Julia Schwarz. This Moritz was born Moises Strakosch on 15 JAN 1825 at Haus #12 Bučovice (Czech Jewish Registers Bučovice Births, Image #30 of 82).

He was a musical prodigy who "made a sensation in Brno at the age of 11 with his execution on the piano of a concerto by Hummel, the Liszt of the time" (New York Times obit., http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60716F9395C10738... ). His parents [Arnbom does not name them] opposed an artistic career; Maurice fled to Vienna at age 12 with about $2 in his pocket. He sailed for New York in 1848. Another source on Moritz/Maurice, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, states he was "born in Butschowitz, Moravia, 15 Jan. 1825-died in Paris 9 Oct. 1887" {http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_Ameri...}.

Maurice had a brother Max (born Markus Strakosch in Brno, Moravia, 27 Sept 1834, not '35 as is often written; see in Czech Jewish Records, Bučovice Births, Image #54 of 82 (the birth was recorded both in Brno and in Bučovice). Markus/Max Strakosch, also an impresario and agent, died New York, 17 March 1892.

Maurice and Max Strakosch had a younger brother Ferdinand, born Oct 10, 1837 in Brno, also recorded in 'Czech Jewish Records, Bučovice Births, Image #54 of 82. He is mentioned in Marie-Therese Arnbom's book Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl und Strakosch: Fünf Familienporträts aus Wien vor 1938 (Ferdinand is erroneously referred to as Maurice and Max's father in http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70D11FF385A16738..., and correctly as their brother at http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1902-08-31/ed-1/seq-2... ).

NYT item says Phoebe Strakosch, born in Sweden to Ferdinand Strakosch, sang opera in Europe and New York, making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on October 1, 1900.

The Oregon News says "Ferdinand Strakosch was younger brother to Max and Maurice Strakosch, and died in Paris August 2 [1902], aged 62 [b. 1840]. He was an impresario at Rome and Trieste at the time that his two more famous brothers were dividing honors in operatic management In Paris and New York. Ferdinand Strakosch was the father of Miss Feba Strakosch who sang In 1900 in the season of opera in English at the Metropolitan" {http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1902-08-31/ed-1/seq-2...}