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268 SCHMELTZL SCHMITT
and then conductor of the Court band. His
works comprise five operas, among them Das
'
Leben ein Traum' (1839), and 'Die Braut des
Herzogs ' (1847), a melodrama, music to 'Faust,'
a mass, a ballet, and a quantity of instrumental
music of all descriptions. He died at Darmstadt,
Nov. 17, 1886. His son, Carl Wilhelm
Adolph, was bom at Darmstadt, Feb. 1, 1830.
He was educated by his father, and in 1847
established himself at Frankfort. In 1854 he
went to England, where he has been ever since
settled in London as an esteemed teacher. He
was a professor at the Koyal Academy of Music
until his retirement in 1903. He has published
both in England and Germany a great number
of PF. works, both solos and duets ; including
a suite dedicated to Cipriani Potter, and a set
of twenty- four studies ; many songs and vocal
pieces, and has many larger works in MS. His
'Schumann Evenings' in 1868 were well known,
and did much to advance the knowledge of
Schumann in England. G.
SCHMELTZL, or SCHMELTZEL, "Wolfgang,
a native of Kemnat in the Upper
Palatinate, was at first a Protestant cantor at
Amberg, where he married, but eventually
forsook his wife and children, and became a
Roman priest. About 1540 he was a schoolmaster
in Vienna, and in 1544 issued the book
by which he is known, a coUectionof ' Quodlibets
for four and five voices, as well as folk-songs of
the time. The title is ' Guter seltzamer vnd
kunstreicher teutscher Gesang, sonderlich etliche
kiinstliohe Quodlibet, Schlacht (bei Pavia), vnd
dergleichen mit 4 oder 5 stimmen. . . .' It
was printed at Nuremberg in four part-books.
Copies are at Berlin, in the British Museum,
and elsewhere. (See the Qtiellen-Zexikon,
Eitner's DeiUscTies Lied, vol. i. and Monaishefte
f. Musilcgesch. iii. 201. A long account of the
book is given in the Sammelbdnde of the Int.
Mus. Ges. vi. 80, by Elsa Bienenfeld.) M.
SCHMID, Anton, Custos of the Hofbibliothek
in Vienna, born at Pihl, near Leipa in
Bohemia, Jan. 30, 1787, entered the Imperial
Library at Vienna in 1818, became Scriptor in
1819, Custos in 1844, and died at Salzburg,
July 3, 1857. His department as a writer
was the history and literature of music and
hymns. He contributed to the following
works :—Dr. Ferdinand Wolfs Deber die Lais,
Sequenzen, und Leiche (Heidelberg, 1841)
Becker's Darstellung der musikalischen Literatw
(supplement, Leipzig, 1839) ; A. Schmidt's
Allg. Wiener musilc. Zeitung (from 1842 to
1848) ; Dehn's Cdcilia (from 1841 to 1848 ;
Mayenoe, Schott) ; and the Oesterreich Blatter
fur Lit. und Kunst (1844, 1845). His independent
works are Ottamano dei Fetrucci of
Fossombrone, the inventor of moiidble mdal types
for prvniing music, and his successors (Vienna,
Rohrmann, 1845) ; Joseph Haydn und Nicolo
Zingarelli, proving that Haydn was the author
of the Austrian national hymn (Vienna, Rohrmann,
1847) ; Christoph WUlibald Miter vun
Gluck (Leipzig, Fleischer, 1864) ; also a work
on chess, TschaMranga-vidjd (Vienna, Gerold,
1847).
To Sohmid in the first instance is due the
orderly and systematic arrangement of the
musical archives of the Hofbibliothek. In
recognition of his unwearied industry and
research he was made a member of many learned
societies in different parts of Europe. c. F. P.
SCHMIDT, Bernhard. See Smith, Bernard
(' Father Smith ').
SCHMIDT, JoHANN Christoph. See Smith,
John Christopher.
SCHMITT, a German musical family founded
by a Cantor at Obemburg in Bavaria. His
son Aloys was born at Erlenbach on the Main,
August 26, 1788, and taught to play by his
father ; he then learned composition from
Andre of Offenbach, and in 1816 established
himself in Frankfort as a PF. teacher. After
a few successful years there— during which,
among others, he had taught Ferdinand Hiller
—and much travelling, he migrated to Berlin,
then to Hanover, where he held the post of
Court Organist (1825-29), and lastly back to
Frankfort, where he died July 25, 1866. His
reputation as a teacher was great, though he
had a, passion for journeys, and his pupils
complained of his frequent absences. He
composed more than 100 works, of all descriptions,
including masses, four operas, two
oratorios, and string quartets, besides some
useful PF. studies.
His brother Jakob, born at Obemburg, Nov.
2, 1803, was a pupil of Aloys. He settled in
Haipburg, where he brought out an opera
(' Alfred der Grosse ') and a prodigious amount
of music, including many sonatas for the piano,
solo and with violin, variations, three books of
studies, etc., in all more than 300 works ; and
died June 1853.
The son of Aloys, Geokg Aloys, was bom
Feb. 2, 1827, during his father's residence at
Hanover. Music came naturally to him, but
it was not till after some time that he decided
to follow it. He was then at Heidelberg
university,
and put himself under Vollweiler
to serious study of counterpoint. His first
attempt was an operetta called 'Trilby,' which
was performed at Frankfort in 1850, with great
success. He then passed some years in various
towns of Germany, and at length, in 1856, was
called by Flotow to Schwerin as Court-cappellmeister
;
[he retired on a pension in 1892, and
in the following year became head of the Mozartverein
in Dresden]. In 1860 he visited London,
and played with ^clat before Queen Victoria.
He wrote operas, music to plays, and orchestral
and other works. [He edited and completed
Mozart's great mass in minor (1901) ; he died
at Dresden, Oct. 15, 1902.] Emma Brandes,