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Alfred MICHAELIS 1858 - 1925
| aka | A. Michaelis |
| nationality | |
| occupation | merchant |
| birth | .... <1858>, Danzig(?), GERMANY/POLAND |
| baptism | |
| death | .. Apr/May/June 1925, .........., Hendon, ENGLAND (67y) (GRO 3a / 319) |
| burial |
PARENTS
| father | ........... MICHAELIS |
| mother | ............. |
| children |
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LIFE
30 Sept 1899 manager/director GRAMCO (Italy) Limited (W. Michaelis and John Thomas Stevens co-directors)
see Kinnear's Indian Recordings, p. 40-41
also PhZ, 5/1904/322 (10 years)
also PhZ No. 17
in October 1904 with Dino Foa (engineer) founds Societa Italiana di Fonotipia in Accommendita, Milan
Alfred Michaelis was a General Manager of Fonotipia, Limited in 1906. Address: 4 Via Dante, Milan (source: The Times, No. 38,026, London, Tuesday 22 May 1906, p. 17.)
1911 ENGLAND & WALES CENSUS (Hampstead):
William Joseph DILLEY (47y)
Frances Ellen DILLEY (40y)
- Elizabeth Frances, William John, Marguerite Cecilia, Agnes Maria, Leonard James
= Alfred MICHAELIS (53y; b. 1858, GERMANY) boarder
occupation: private means
working on own account: singer
In July 1911 Alfred Michaelis was mentioned in the files of Fonotipia Limited as being resident at c/o 14, Regent Street, London. (source: - A FONOTIPIA FRAGMENTA. A History of the Societa Italiana di Fonotipia - Milano 1903-1948 by Frank Andrews (Historic Singers Trust, 2002)), p. 34
NOTES
- A FONOTIPIA FRAGMENTA. A History of the Societa Italiana di Fonotipia - Milano 1903-1948 by Frank Andrews (Historic Singers Trust, 2002),
(this (revised) edition originally appeared as a series of articles in The Talking Machine Review - International between June 1976 and December 1977)
- A Fonotipia Fragmenta by H. Frank Andrews (in: The Talking Machine Review International, No. 44, Vol. 6 (of Feb 1977), pp. 901-930
- The Talking Machine Review No. 65-66 (February 1983)
- pp. 1798-1807: Catalogue of Neophone Disc Phonographs (1906) with picture of Dr. [William] Michaelis
- see Kinnear's Indian Recordings, p. 40-41
- Neophon see: Franz Schorn's "Alte Schallplatten-Marken", p. 78 (on label: System Dr. Michaelis)
- also PhZ, 5/1904/322 (10 years)
- also PhZ No. 17
- see picture Otto Watzig (NEOPHON)
- Joe Batten's Book. The Story of Sound Recording by Joe Batten (1956, Rockcliff Publishing Corporation)
- 'Lindstrom' Companies in Britain by Frank Phillips (in: The Lindström Project. Contributions to the history of the record industry / Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schallplattenindustrie. Vol. 2 (editors: Pekka Gronow & Christiane Hofer). Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger, Wien 2010. ISBN 978-3-9500502-1-9
- Carusos First Recordings: Myth and Reality by S. P. Martland (in: ARSC Journal XXV / ii 1994, pp. 192-201)
- see: FRED GAISBERG DIARIES, part 1 - USA & Europe (1898 - 1902) (illustrated) (on this website)
- Article by Fred Gaisberg (in: The Gramophone of January 1944, pp. 117-119)
- A Voice in Time
- The Times, No. 38,026, London, Tuesday 22 May 1906, p. 17.
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