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266 SCHLAGINSTRUMENTEN SCHLICK
especially the department of publication. The
firm haa a large engraving and printing plant
of its own, being one of the few maintained by
American publishing-houses. The catalogue of
G. Schirmer numbered about 18,000 active titles
in 1906. Among the most important of its
publications ai-e the Library of Musical Classics,
comprising about 850 numbers and a series of
modern operas in vocal score with analytical
and historical prefaces written by the foremost
musical writers of theUnited States. G. Schirmer
has published the works of many American composers,
including Dudley Buck, George W.
Ohadwiok, Arthur Whiting, Henry Holden
Huss, Horatio W. Parker, Ethelbert
Nevin, and especially Charles Martin Loeffler.
The literary publications of the house
include theoretical works by Dr. Percy Goetsohius.
Dr. Theodore Baker, and others. It
established and maintained for many years the
principal circulating music library in the United
States ; but this was transferred in 1906 to the
Institute of Musical Art. r. a.
SCHLAGINSTRUMENTEN. Instruments
of percussion, such as drums, cymbals, tambourine,
etc.
SGHLEIFER. See Slide.
SCHLEPPEN. To drag. A frequent direction
in modem scores is 'Nicht sohleppend '
Don't drag !
SGHLESINGEK. A well-known musicalpublishing
house in Berlin. It was founded in
1795 by Adolf Martin Schlesinger, a man
of original character and great ability. Among
the principal work^ issued by him was the
edition of Bach's Matthew '
Passion,' one of the
fruits of Mendelssohn's revival of it,' and an
astonishingly bold undertaking for those days
—which Schlesinger brought out, according to
his favourite expression, ' for the honour of the
house.' It was announced in Sept. 1829, and
published soon afterwards both in Full and PF.
score. He also founded the Berliner Allg. mns.
Zeitung, which under the editorship of A. B.
Marx had for seven years (1824-30) much influence
for good in Germany. [See vol. iii.
p. 685a.] He died in 1839.
His second son, HEiNRiCH(born 1807), carried
on the business till his death. Dee. 14, 1879.
He founded the Echo in 1851, a periodical
which remained in his hands till 1864, when
it was sold to R. Lienau.
The eldest son, Moritz Adolf, left Berlin,
and in 1819 entered the bookselling house of
Bossange pere at Paris. In 1 823 he endeavoured
• to found a similar business for himself. Police
difficiUties prevented him from carrying out his
intention, and he founded, in 1834, a music
business instead, which for many years has had
the lead among French publishers, and is now
nearly as famous as Paris itself. He brought
his German tastes with him, and an unusual
1 March 11. 1829. See Marx'a Erinn&nvngen, il. pp. 50, 87.
degree of enterprise. His first serious effort was
an edition of Mozart's operas in PF. score, for
which Horace Vemet designed the title-page.
This was followed by editions of the complete
works of Beethoven, Weber, Hummel, etc.,
and a ' Collection de chefs d'ceuvre ' in twentyfour
vols/ He published also the fuU scores of
Meyerbeer's 'Robert,' and 'Les Huguenots';
Halevy's 'L'fclair,' 'La Juive,' 'Les Mousquetaires,
' ' La Reine de Chypre, ' ' Guido et Ginevra,
' Charles VI ' ; Donizetti's
'
La Favorite ' ;
Berlioz's 'Symphonic fantastique,' and overture
to the ' Camaval Romain ' ; the arrangements
of Wagner; the chamber -music of Onslow,
Reissiger, and a host of other pieces of all
descriptions, for which the reader must be referred
to the catalogue of the firm. Amongst
'
the educational works the M^thode des
Methodes ' is conspicuous. On Jan. 5, 1834, he
issued the first number of the Gazette MusiccUe,
which in a few months was united to the Bevvs
Musicale and ran a useful and successful course
till its expiry in 1880. [See amte, p. 79.] In
1846 M. Schlesinger sold the business to MM.
Brandus and Dufour, and retired to Baden-
Baden, where he died in Feb. 1871. G.
SCHLICK, Arnolt, the elder, was bom in
Bohemia about 1460. Like Paumann of Nuremberg
he was blind, a fine organist, and a luteplayer.
He was a member of the Hofkapelle
at Heidelberg before 1511, holding the post of
organist to the Count Palatine. In the fourth
book of the Micrologus, 1517, dedicated to
Schlick, 'mnsico consumatissimo, ac Palatini
Prinoipis organisteprobatissimo,' Ornithoparcus
'
thus apostrophises him : From your sentence
no man will enter appeale ; because there is no
man either leameder, or subtiler in this art,
than your selfe, who besides the practise, hast
wisdome, eloquence, gentlenesse, quicknesse of
wit, and in all kinds of musicke a divine
industry, and further the knowledge of many
other sciences. Thou wantest the bodily
lamp, but in thy mind shineth that golden
light ; . . wherefore not only by thy princes,
who are to thee most gracious, but even of all
men (like Orpheus and Amphion) art thou
loved' (Dowland's translation, 1609). Schlick
himself states in the preface to his 'Tabulaturen
that he made tours through Germany and
Holland, winning much renown as an organist,
and that he was in Worms in 1495, at the time
that the Reichstag was held there. Two of
Schliok's works are still in existence, the first
on organs and organists, the second, a volume
of organ and lute pieces in tablature. The
former was called : Spiegel der Orgelmacher
'
vnd Organisten, alien Stifften vnd Kirchen so
Orgel halten oder machen lassen hoohniitzlich,
duroh den hochberiimpten vnd kunstreichen
meyster Arnolt Schlicken Pfalzgrauischen
Organisten artlioh verfasst,' etc. (1511), small
4to, 30 pages (' Mirror of organ-builders and