!!!Gehmacher, Friedrich

b. Frankenmarkt (Upper Austria), Sept. 16, 1866, 
d. Salzburg, Feb. 24, 1942, law graduate. Director of the 
Unfallversicherung Salzburg medical insurance company; provided the 
funds for the construction of the  Mozarteum in Salzburg (1914) and 
was one of the main patrons of the Bibliotheca Mozartiana, the Mozart 
Medal Trust (Stiftung der Mozartmedaille), the purchase of Mozart's 
birth place, the construction of the Central Institute for Research on 
Mozart (Zentralinstitut fuer Mozartforschung) and the foundation of 
the Salzburg Festival Society (Salzburger Festspielhaus-Gemeinde) in 
1917. Cultivating Mozart's memory became a tradition in the G. family.

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