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274 SCHOTTISCHE SCHRADIECK
brother, Adam (who afterwards was a bandmaster
in Canada and India, dying in the latter
country), and conducted with great success since
1849 by J. B. Wolf (born 1815, died 1881),
and, since his death, by Mr. Carl Volkert.
Another branch in Paris soon followed. Peter,
a younger brother of Franz Philipp, and grandson
of Bernhard, lived in Brussels and managed
the business of the branches there and in Paris,
forwarding at the same time the circulation of
the Mainz publications. He died Sept. 20,
1894, in Paris. Besides these four independent
houses the firm has dep8ts in Leipzig, Rotterdam,
and New York. Franz Philipp (born 1811),
grandson of Bernhard, took part in the business
from 1825, and managed it after the death of
his father Andreas, first in partnership with his
uncle Johann Joseph, and after his death by
himself. Since his death in Milan in 1874 the
business has been carried on with the old
traditions by Peter Schoti; (a son of the
Brussels Peter), Franz von Landwehr (a
nephew of the family), and Dr. L. Strecker.
The Sohotts have been music-publishers to the
Court since 1824.
At a time when the book and music trade
was regulated by no fixed laws, the correct and
elegant editions of Mainz found a ready
entrance into foreign countries, and the firm
was thus stimulated to keep ahead of rivals by
making constant improvements in music-printing
and engraving. They were the first to use
lithography for this purpose, an important
turning-point in the printing of music. Their
copyright publications now amount to over
23,000, including Beethoven's latest quartets,
Ninth Symphony, and Mass in D, nearly all
the operas of Donizetti, Rossini, Adam, and
Auber, most of Rink's organ-music, ' der Choralfreund,
' in nine volumes ; Ecole pratique de la
'
modulation,' op. 99; 'Gesangstudien' (vocalises,
m^thode de chant, etc.) by Bordfese, Bordogni,
Concone, Fetis, Gavaude, Garcia, Lablache, Abb^
Mainzer, Rossini, Rubini, Vacoaj, etc. To come
to later times, Wagner's 'Meistersinger,' 'Ring
des Nibelungen, ' and ' Parsifal. ' The establishment
has been enlarged by the addition of a
printing-office (where have been printed, among
others, Gottfried Weber's theoretical works, the
periodical Gdcilia, 1824-48, etc.), and in 1829
of a piano factory, which, however, was given
up in 1860 on account of the extension of the
main business.
The Schotts, besides innumerable services to
art and artists, have done good work in a smaller
circle by fostering music in Mainz itself.
Franz and his wife Betty (riJe von Braunrasch,
born 1820, died 1875) left a considerable sum
for the maintenance of a, permanent orchestra
and conductor of eminence, in order that Mainz
might hold its own in music with the richer
cities of the Rhine provinces. c. f. p.
SCHOTTISCHE ('The Scotch dance'), a
round dance very similar to the polka. It must
not be confounded with the feossaise, which was
a country dance of Scotch origin introduced into
France towards the end of the 1 8th century. The
Schottische was first danced in England in 1848,
when it was also known as the German Polka.
It does not seem to have been danced in Paris,
as Cellarius (La Danse des Salons, Paris, 1847)
does not include it amongst the dances he
describes. The music is almost the same as
that of the polka, but should be played rather
slower. The following is the tune to which it
was originally danced in England.
w. B. s.
SCHRADIECK, Henry, violinist, was bomat
Hamburg, on April 29, 1846. He received his
first lesson from his father on his fourth birthday,
and already made public appearance^ in
his sixth year. In 1854 Teresa Milanollo
heard, and took considerable interest in him,
putting him into the hands of Leonard at the
Conservatoire in Brussels, where he stayed for
four years, and gained the first prize. Afterwards
he studied under David at Leipzig (1859-61),
obtaining his first important engagement in
1863assoloist in the so-called 'Private Concerts,'
conducted by Reinthaler at Bremen. The
following year he was appointed professor of
the violin at the Moscow Conservatorium, but
in 1868 returned to Hamburg to take the post
vacated by Auer as Conpertmeister of the Philharmonic
Society. After six years he moved
(in 1874) to Leipzig, becoming Concertmeister
at the Gewandhaus concerts, professor at the
Conservatorium, and leader of the theatre orchestra.
His pupils became very numerous, and
at length he found himself overburdened with
so many duties, and accepted an appointment
as conductor and teacher of the violin at the
College of Music at Cincinnati. Here he worked
until 1889, and then returned to his native town,
taking his old position as Concertmeister of the
Philharmonic Society, besides teaching at the
Hamburg Conservatorium. Subsequently he
went to New York as principal violin professor
at the National Conservatoire, moving in 1899
to Philadelphia, where he teaches at the S.
Broad Street Conservatoire.
As a writer of Studies for the violin he stands
very high. Amongst them are twenty-five