Career
In 1876, he founded the eponymous Alfred Schulz-Curtius music and artists management agency in the West End of London at 44 Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus. He is most well known for his popularization of the music of Richard Wagner. In 1882, he arranged the first British staging of the epic Ring Cycle, conducted by Anton Seidl and directed by Angelo Neumann.
Alfred Schulz-Curtius had great enthusiasm for the string instruments designed by Doctor Alfred Stelzner and went to great lengths to encourage their use by soloists, ensembles and orchestras.
The conductors with whom Schulz-Curtius worked include Hermann Levi, Felix Mottl, Percy Pitt, Hans Richter, and Henry Joseph Wood. Others among the many artists whom he represented include pianist Ferruccio Busoni, violinist January Kubelík, soprano Dame Nellie Melba, and cellist Guilhermina Suggia.
He was 64 years old. From the early 1930s, South African Harold Holt managed the agency as Harold Holt Limited until his death in 1953.
In 1956, Sir Ian Hunter joined the agency and, in 1969, by which time Harolt Holt Limited was owned by Ibbs and Tillett, purchased lieutenant In the late 1990s, the agency which Alfred Schulz-Curtius had founded more than one hundred twenty years earlier merged with the Lies Askonas agency to form Askonas Holt.