[1] Born in Zaniemyśl, Kurnik was one of the leading left-liberal journalists in Breslau from around the middle of the 19th century.
[4] Alexander Moszkowski reported in his autobiography about Kurnik's apparently rather conservative taste in music: The famous Leopold Damrosch wielded the baton, and through him we gained a hazy sense of symphonic classicism.
He brought the futurisms of Liszt and Berlioz, and when he once unleashed upon us a festive piece of music by Hans von Bronsart, it was considered a foregone conclusion that this tonal terrain was essentially dominated by the devil.
We were encouraged in this by our house oracle of the Silesian press, whose main representative, Max Kurnik, had the smell of infallibility.
Now we were completely justified in our many-handed drumming, which we had called "symphony-making" in a drastic generalisation.Kurnik died in Wrocław at the age of 61.