Background
Sulzberger was born in Frankfurt of Swiss parents in 1876.
Sulzberger was born in Frankfurt of Swiss parents in 1876.
In 1900 he studied at the university and conservatory in Zürich, where he was in contact with Othmar Schoeck and Gabriel Fauré.
There are few certain dates concerning his life, since Sulzberger himself contributed to keeping some facts unclear (for example, his birth year). He was recommended to pursue further studies in Paris with Charles Marie Widor and went there in 1906, He returned to Zürich in 1911. In the Central Library of Zürich, letters from e.g.
Hugo Ball, Busoni, Debussy, Ernst von Dohnányi, Joseph Szigeti, Richard Strauss and Felix Weingartner that were left behind by Sulzberger are located.