!!!Hämmerle, Theodor

b. Dornbirn, Jan. 16, 1859, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 15, 1930, textile producer; grandson of Franz Martin  
Haemmerle. Head of the Viennese branch of the F. M. Haemmerle company. 
Generous patron of music, founded several scholarships, owned an 
extensive private collection of musical instruments and held more than 
700 soirees of chamber music at his house. Chairman of the Wiener 
Konzertverein (Vienna Concert Association) and its successor music 
society the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft; proposed the establishment 
of a music school in Dornbirn. His brother Martin H. (1874-1946), head 
of the parent company in Vorarlberg was also greatly interested in 
music (founding member of the Society of the Friends of Music in 
Dornbirn in 1902 of which he was chairman for 10 years).



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