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EICHAEDSON
BICHTER
on its visits to London in 1872 and 1873, when
they suooessfully competed at the National
Music Meetings at the Crystal Palace. [He
died in London, May 1, 1885.] (Additions
from Diet, of Nat. Biog.) w. h. h.
EICHAEDSON, Joseph, an eminent iiuteplayer,
horn in 1814, and died March 22,
1862. He was engaged in most of the London
orchestras, was solo player at Jullien's concerts
for many years, and afterwards became principal
flute in the Queen's private band. [He played
at the Melodists' Club and the Sooieti
Armonica in 1836, and was a member of the
Liszt concert party in 1841, and visited Dublin
in that capacity, w. H. G. f.] His neatness
and rapidity of execution were extraordinary,
and were the great features of his playing.
He
composed numerous fantasias for his instrument,
usually extremely brilliant. G.
EICHARDSON, Vauohan, born in London
in the latter half of the 17th century, was in
praise of St. Cecilia,' written for a celebration
at Winchester about 1700, and a 'set of vocal
and instrumental music,' written for a like
occasion in 1703. [An autograph volume of
music, containing fourteen anthems, a 'Song
for the King' (1697), six sonatas for strings,
etc., is in the possession of J. S. Bumpus, Esq.]
He died before June 26, 1729, and not, as
commonly stated, in 1715. w. H. H.
EICHAULT, Charles Simon, head of a
family of celebrated French music-publishers,
bom at Chartres, May 10, 1780, came early to
Paris, . served his apprenticeship in the
music-trade with J. J. Momigny. From him
he acquired a taste for the literature of music
and chamber compositions ; and when he set
up for himself at No. 7 Eue Grange Batelifere
in 1805, the first works he published were
classical. He soon perceived that there was
an opening in Paris for editions of the best
works of German musicians, and the early efforts
of French composers of promise. His calculation
proved correct, and his judgment was so
sound that his business increased rapidly, and
he was soon obliged to move into larger premises
in the Boulevard Poissonni^re, first at No. 16,
and then at No. 26. Here he published Mozart's
Concertos in 8vo score, and other works of the
classical composers of Germany, and acquired
the bulk of the stock of the firms of Frey,
Naderman, Sieber, Pleyel, Petit, Erard, and
Delahante. He moved in 1862 to No. 4 in
the Boulevard des Italiens. In this house he
died, Feb. 20, 1866, well known as a publisher
of judgment and ability, a man of keen intellect,
and a pleasant social companion. His son,
GuiLLAUME Simon, born in Paris, Nov. 2,
1806, had long been his father's partner, and
continued in the old line of serious music. At
the same time he realised that in so important a
business it was well that the Italian school should
be represented, and accordingly bought the stock
of the publisher Pacini. On his death, Feb. 7,
1877, his son,
LfiON, born in Paris, August 6, 1839, resolved
to give a fresh impetus to the firm, which already
possessed 18,000 publications. Bearing in mind
that his grandfather had been the first to publish
Beethoven's Symphonies and Mozart's Concertos
in score ; to make known in France the oratorios
of Bao^j and Handel, and the works of Schubert,
1685 a chorister of the Chapel Eoyal, under
Dr. Blow. He was possibly a nephew of Thomas
Eichardson (alto singer, gentleman of the Chapel
Eoyal from 1664 to his death, July 23, 1712,
and lay vicar of Westminster Abbey), and a
brother of Thomas Eichardson, who was his
fellow-chorister. In June 1693 he was appointed
organist of Winchester Cathedral. In 1701 he
published A ' collection of Songs for one, two, Mendelssohn, and Schumann ; to bring out the
and three voices, acoompany'd with instruments. first operas of Ambroise Thomas and Victor
He was author of some church music : a fine Mass^ ; to encourage Berlioz when his Damnation
de Faust ' was received with contempt,
' anthem, Lord God of my '
salvation,' and an
Evening Service in C (composed in 1713), are and to welcome the orchestral compositions of
in the Tudway Collection (Harl. MSS. 7341 and Eeber and Gouvy ; M. L^on Eichault above all
7342), and another anthem, '0 how amiable,' determined to maintain the editions of the
also in Tudway, and printed in Page's Harmonia
Sacra' ; others are in the books of fortune of the firm. His intelligent administra-
German ' classical masters which had made the
different cathedrals. He was also composer of
'An Entertainment of new Musick, composed
on the Peace' [of Eyswiok], 1697 ; 'A Song in
tion of his old and honourable business procured
him a silver medal at the International Exhibition
of 1878, the highest recompense open
to music-publishers, the jury having refused
them the gold medal. g. g.
EICHTEE, Ernst Friedrich Eduard, son
of a schoolmaster, born Oct. 24, 1808, at Grossschbnau
in Lusatia ; from his eleventh year
attended the Gymnasium at Zittau, managed
the choir, and arranged independent performances.
Inl831he went to Leipzig to study with
Weinlig, the then Cantor, and made such progress
that soon after the foundation of the
Conservatorinm, in 1843, he became one of the
professors of harmony and counterpoint. Up to
1847 he conducted the Singakademie ; he was
afterwards organist successively of the Peterskirche
(1851) and the Neukirche and Nicolaikirche
(l862). After Hauptmann's death, Jan.
3, 1868, he succeeded him as Cantor of the
Thomasschule. Of his books, the Lehrbuch der
Earmonie (afterwards called PraHische Studien
zw Tfteone), (12th ed. 1876); has been translated
into Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Eussian,
Polish, and English. The Lehre mn der Fuge