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342 SCHULTZ SCHULZE
counterpoint and composition. Sohulthesius
was an excellent performer on the clavier, and
in 1782 he was called upon to play some of his
own compositions before the Grand Duke of
Tuscany, and was very favourably received.
He became one of the most erudite musicians
of his time, and in 1807 was noTninated secretary
of the fourth class of the Acoademia di scienze,
lettere ed arti di Livomo. He died on April
18, 1816, at Leghorn. Hia treatise on the
quality and character of church music : SuUa
musica da chiesa. Memoria di Gio. Paolo
Schulthesius. Livomo, presso Tommaso Masi.
1810, 4to, was also published in the first
volume of the J'roceedings of his Acoademia.
Letters of his to Marco Santucci are in existence
in one of them he mentions this work, and expresses
his desire to hear Santuoci's opinion of
it. The following compositions were also published
:
Tre soDate per 11 Clmbalo o piano-forte con V accompa^nameuto
d'un violtno obbllgato. Composte da Olo. Paolo Schnltheaiua.
Opera 1. Livomo, 1780, obL folio. A copy of tbe second edition is
in the British Museum,
Senate a solo per 11 cembalo o pianoforte. Op, 2, Livomo, obi,
fol
Ḋeux quatuors pour piano, violon, viola et violoncello. Op. 3,
London, 1785,
Otto variazionl facill sopra un Andantlno per 11 clmbalo o pianoforte,
violino, viola e violoncello obbligato. Op. 4. Livomo, Four
oblong folio pai-t-books.
Allegretto avec 12 variationspourleClavecIn on pianoforte, vlolon,
viola et violoncello obbligato. Op, 6, Augsburg (Gombart),
Andante grazioso de Pleyel varifi pour le clavecin ou pianoforte,
vlolon et violoncello obbligato. Op, 7. Augsburg (Gombart),
Andantino original, avec tauit variations pour le piano. Op. 8.
Augsburg (Gombart).
Sept variations pour le forte-piano. Op, 9, Augsburg (Gombart).
1797. Dedicated to Job, Nic, Fcrkel.
Huit variations sur un air ruase pour piano. Op, 10. Livomo,
Douze variations sur I'alr de i/oZArouft pour piano, vlolon, viola
et violoncello. Op, 11. Florence (ITlcola Fagni).
La reconcillazione di due amici, tema con variazionl. Op. 12.
Augsburg (GombHxt), It was dedicated to Haydn,
Otto variazionl sentimentali sopra un tema orjginale intltolato
L' Amicizia per pianoforte, dedicate al aignore Carlo Mozart, flglio
maggiore del Qran Mozart. Op. 14. Leipzig. Breitkopf.
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SCHULTZ. See Peaetoeius, vol. iii. p. 805.
SCHULZ, JoHANN Abeaham Pkter, son of
a baker, bom at Liineburg, March 30, 1747.
His master was Sohmugel, a local organist of
ability, whose descriptions of Berlin and of Kimberger's
labours so excited him that at the age of
fifteen, without money and against the wish of
his family, he went thither and put himself under
the protection of Kirnberger, who was very good
to him, under whom he studied and to whom
In 1768 he was for-
he became greatly attached.
tunate enough to travel in France, Italy, and
Germany under good auspices. In 1773 he
returned to Berlin, and found his old master
and Sulzer at work on their Allgem, Theorie der
Schonen Kilnste, and undertook the musical portion
of it from S to the end. In 1776-78 he was
also Capellmeister to the French theatre at
Berlin, and afterwards to the private theatre
of the Crown Princess at Berlin and that of
Prince Henry at Eeinsberg, where he stayed for
seven years from April 1, 1780. His choruses to
' Athalia,' produced while there, were translated
and brought out at Copenhagen, and the result
was an ofler from the King of Denmark to be
his Capellmeister at a salary of 2000 thalers.
This he accepted and held for eight years, from
1787, with great credit and advantage to the
place. His health at length obliged him to
leave, and he departed, Sept. 29, 1795, for
Hamburg, Liineburg, and Berlin. He lost his
wife, and at length, on June 10, 1800, died at
Schwedt deeply and widely lamented. Schulz
was a prolific composer ; his operas are 'Clarisse'
(1775), 'La fee UrgMe ' (1782), 'Minona,' and
'
Le Barbier de Seville ' (1786), Aline ' ' (1789) ;
besides he wrote music to plays, and sacred music
'
such as ' Christi Tod, ' Maria und Johannes, ' etc.
The QueUen-Lexikon gives the names of many
church and chamber works, as well as of his
important song-collections. His literary works
include a treatise on a new mode of writing
music. He also edited Kimberger's Wahre
Grurndsaiae zwm Gebrauch der Harmonie (1783).
But his true claim to notice rests on his songs.
He was the first to give the Volkslied an artistic
turn. He was very careful to get good words,
and as a considerable move was taking place
among the poets at that date (1770-80), and
Burger, Claudius, Hblty, and others were writing,
he had good opportunities, and many of his settings
were published in the Gottingen MusenalTnanach
and Voss's Almanack. He published
also Lieder in Volkston bey dem Klavier zu
'
singen' (1782), containing forty-eight songs,
2nd ed. (1785) in two parts, and a thii-d part
in 1790. (See Eeissmann, Gesch. d. Deutschen,
Liedes, p. 149.) a.
SCHULZE, J, F. & Sons, a firm of organbuilders,
whose founder, J. F. Schulze, was
born at Milbitz-bei-Paulinzella, Thuringia, in
1794, and began his manufactory there in 1825.
His first organs were fonHorba (with ten stops) and
Milbitz (twenty-one stops). In 1825 he moved to
Paulinzella, where his business Jargely increased.
At this period his principal organs were those
for Bremen cathedral and Solingen. In 1851,
the firm sent an organ to the International
Exhibition in Hyde Park, which obtained a prize
medal and was the beginning of much work
done for England. This is now in the Town
Hall, Northampton. In 1854 they built the
great organ in the Marienkirche at Liibeck.
J. F. Schulze died in 1858, but was succeeded
by his three sons, the most distinguished of
whom was Heinrich Edmund, who introduced
many improvements. On the rebuilding of the
parish church of Donoaster, England, after the
fire in 1853, the organ was rebuilt by the Schulze
firm, with great success. Besides this fine instrument,
their most important organs are in
Bremen, Diisseldorf, Sbst, and Aplerbeck. H. E.
Schulze died in 1878 at the age of fifty-four,
and shortly after, on the death of the surviving
brother, the firm ceased to exist.
The Sohulzes' organs are most celebrated for
their flute-pipes, which are constructed so as
to admit as much wind as possible. In order to
do this the feet are opened very wide, and the
pipes are in consequence cut up unusually high.