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town's first musical conservatory. The non-denominational conservatory took in
Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish students, and proved to be so popular they soon expanded to include two buildings on Marienstrasse with eleven teachers, four assistant teachers, and a secretary. The wealth generated by the school and Elisabeth's inheritance afforded the Heydrichs a comfortable upper-middle class life style, to the extent that the family were able to employ two full-time maids and a butler. The family soon became integrated with the upper echelon of Halle society, forming close personal relationships with the officials of the city, such as the Mayor; Bruno even joined the elite
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consumption aged just nineteen. Bruno, now the eldest child, began taking on odd jobs along with his mother in order to provide for his younger sisters. Ernestine remarried a few years later in 1877 to Gustav Robert Süss, a young
Protestant locksmith, just nine years older than Bruno in order to provide a steady breadwinner for the family.
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Starting at age twelve, Bruno began to show a talent for music. He played tenor horn, double-bass, tuba, and was first violin for his school's orchestra. By age thirteen he was performing as a soloist with the
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Fearing an antisemitic backlash from the large
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neighbors. Many Jewish children attended the Halle
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Reinhold Heydrich, was an apprentice cabinetmaker and his mother Ernestine Wilhelmine, took care of the five children. In 1867, when Bruno was two years old, the family moved to
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Richard would often perform at local fairs in order to supplant the family's income. In 1879, he earned a scholarship to the prestigious
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