Ernst von Schuch

There in 1872 he became music director at the Court Opera, from 1873 Royal Kapellmeister with Julius Rietz, later with Franz Wüllner.

From 1882 onward, he lived in Niederlößnitz (today part of Radebeul) in the Weintraubenstraße (in 1883 renamed at his own suggestion as Schuchstraße 15/17).

Tours as guest conductor in Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Paris aside, he remained committed to Dresden until 1914, and made its opera house there into one of the leading musical stages of Europe.

Also highly valued as a nonoperatic conductor, he was particularly known in the concert hall for his renditions of the orchestral works of Felix Draeseke and Strauss.

He married coloratura soprano Clementine von Schuch-Proska (Klementine Procházka) (1850–1932), who became an honorary member of Dresden's Royal Theatre Company.