The Times Nr. 8379 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) erwähnt Bruckner in Zusammenhang mit Schalk:
"   NEWS OF THE MUSICAL WORLD
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     According to the Musical Courier, Franz Schalk, the young conductor whom Maurice Grau has engaged for his German operas, is of Hebraic extraction [sic] and was born in 1863. He studied violin with Hellmesberger and composition with Bruckner at the Vienna Conservatory, and went to Graz, in Bohemia, to conduct in 1888. [...]."