Pupil of Heinrich Schenker's in the 1890s and 1900s.

Career

Son of Wiktor Klobassa (1849–96), grandson of Karol Klobassa senior (1823–86), pioneer of crude oil mining in Galicia, who was admitted to the Polish aristocracy with the suffix “-Zrencki,” and the title “hrabia” (equivalent to “Earl” in English society). Karol (Karl) junior inherited this rank at his father’s death. He, too, became an important figure in the petroleum-naphtha industy in Poland, and a board member of the East European Crude Oil Association (Iriag) in the 1920s. On May 22, 1930 he is recorded as a patient at the Oskar Mautner Waldsanatorium in Perchtoldsdorf, southwest of Vienna, where he is described as “Vice-Minister, Honorary Attaché of the Polish legation.” Where he died four years later is unknown.

Klobassa and Schenker

Klobassa is first referred to in Schenker's diary on September 12, 1897 as "my pupil," where he is mysteriously likened to Hamlet. Whether or not he continued taking lessons in the intervening period is unknown, but he certainly did so in 1906/07. In December 1906 he was late paying his fees, and again in June 1907 his end-of-year fees, such that Schenker had to threaten legal action (diary, May 1907) in order to force him to pay up. Klobassa failed to attend at the beginning of the teaching year 1907/08 (diary, October 1, 1907).

On April 14, 1914, Schenker’s diary records: “visiting card [without address] of a former pupil, Carl von Klobassa, who paid me a visit on Easter Monday.” He told the building caretaker that he had “not seen [Schenker] for six years”, which if taken strictly would mean he last saw him in 1908.

Correspondence

No correspondence is known to have survived between the two men.

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