PIONEERRESPOND
Emil Carl Georg HARTKOPP (e)1881 - 1939
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| aka | Emile C. Hartkopp, Emil C. Hartkopp, E. C. Hartkopp, Emil Hartkopp, Emile Hartkopp, E. Hartkopp |
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| birth | 26 Dec 1881, Hamburg, GERMANY |
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| death | 27 Feb 1939, Copenhagen, DENMARK |
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| marriage | in 1905
 Renate MOSER b. 1 June 1883, Stockholm, SWEDEN |
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PARENTS
| father | .......... HARTKOPP b. .......... |
| mother | ......... ......... b. .......... |
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LIFE
He was employed by Deutsche Grammophon in 1901 and from 1904 he built up the Danish Gramophone Company subsididary Skandinavisk Grammophon Aktieselskab and was its general manager.
In the beginning he was also responsible for Skandinaviska Grammofon-Aktiebolaget in Stockholm, Sweden.
His son Eugen, who had been A&R manager in Copenhagen from 1934, succeeded him as general manager.
His brother John became general manager in Vienna.
NOTES
- The Voice, April 1939
- Emil Hartkopp: the go-between of Berliner and The Gramophone Co. by Morten Hein (in: The Lindström Project. Contributions to the history of the record industry / Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schallplattenindustrie. Vol. 4, pp. 33-43 (editors: Pekka Gronow & Christiane Hofer). Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger, Wien 2010. ISBN 978-3-9500502-0-2
- Emil Carl Georg Hartkopp on internet: Politietsregisterblade.dk
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PHOTOS
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| A recording session in Helsinki, Hotel Kamp, October 1909, with the baritone Eino Rautavaara from the Finnish Opera. From the left: Otto Brandt , Oskar Merikanto, Eino Rautevaara, E. J. Pearse and Emil Hartkopp |
THANK YOU
George Brock-Nannestad