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386 SCHWINDL SCOEDATURA
when he lived near Vienna, all trace of him
is lost. Johann Friedrich's son and pupil,
Friedkich Gottlieb, born Dee. 15, 1823, at
Hamburg, was his successor in the Nikolaikirche,
had success as a pianist and organist in Paris
(1855) and elsewhere. Two fantasias for organ,
trumpet, trombones, and drums, are his most
important compositions. He re - edited his
father's collection of chorales, and wrote preludes
to them. He died. June 11, 1896, at
Hamburg. (Eiemann's Lexikon, Quellen-Lexi-
Jcon. ) M.
SCHWINDL, or SCHWINDEL, Fkiedbioh,
was a skilful player on the violin, flute, and
clavier, in the 18th century. He was at the
Hague about 1770, where Burney met him,
and in Geneva and Miilhausen, where he brought
out some operettas, and finally he settled at
Carlsruhe, where he died August 10, 1786,
holding the position of Markgraflieh badischer
Conoertmeister. He was one of the followers
of the Mannheim school ; his numerous symphonies,
quartets, trios, etc. appeared at Amsterdam,
Paris, and London (where his music enjoyed
great popularity), from 1765 onwards. A
Mass in E minor for four voices and orchestra
is in MS. at Milan. (Eiemann's Lmkon,
Quellen-Lexikon, etc.) M.
SCHYTTE, LuDWiG Theodok, born at
Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark, April 28, 1850,
was originally a chemist, and gave up that
business for music in 1870, when he studied the
pianoforte under Anton Rde and Edmund
Neupert, and composition with Gebauer and
Gade, finally going to Taubert in Berlin, and
Liszt at Weimar. He had one of the advanced
piano classes in Horak's Academy in Vienna
.in 1887-88, and has since resided there, being
distinguished as a player, composer, and teacher.
A very large number of graceful and effective
compositions for pianoforte testifies to his industry,
and many have become widely popular,
such as op. 22, Naturstimmungen ' ' ; op. 30,
'
Pantomimen ' for PF. duet op. 53, sonata.
A pianoforte concerto is op.
;
28, and among his
many songs, a cycle, 'Die Verlassene,' deserves
mention. A comic opera, 'Fahrendes Volk,'
was not performed ; but ' Hero, ' a one-act opera,
was given at Copenhagen in 1898, and an
operetta 'Der Mameluk' at Vienna in 1903.
(Riemann's Lexikon ; Baker's Biog. Diet of
Mus.) M.
SCIOLTO, CON SCIOLTEZZA, ' freely ;
'
an
expression used in nearly the same sense as ad
libitum, but generally applied to longer passages,
or even to whole movements.
It is also applied
to a fugue in a free style. Thus what Beethoven,
in the last movement of the Sonata in
B^, op. 106, calls 'Fuga con alcune licenze,'
might otherwise be called Fuga ' sciolta.' M.
SCONTRINO, Antonio, born at Trapani in
Sicily, May 17, 1850. His father, a carpenter
by trade, was an ardent lover of music, playing
the violin and guitar as well as singing,
and constructing violins, guitars, violoncellos,
double-basses, and even pianofortes. With his
children and brothers this keen amateur formed
an orchestra in which, at the age of seven years,
Antonio was persuaded to take part as doublebass,
playing on a violoncello adapted for the
purpose, and provided with three strings only.
In 1861 he took up music in earnest, and entered
the Palermo Conservatorio to study the instrument
which chance, rather than choice, had
made his own. For harmony he was h pupU.
of Luigi Alfano, and for countei-point and composition
of Platania, the director of the institution.
In 1870 he left the Conservatorio and
toured as a virtuoso on the double-bass throughout
southern Italy ; in the following year he
obtained the libretto of an opera from Leopoldo
Marenco, but the work, 'Matelda,' was not
produced until 1876. Aided by a grant from
the municipality and province of Trapani,
Scontrino went in 1872 to Munich, where
for two years he studied German music, classical
and modern. In 1874 he came to England as a
member of Mapleson's orchestra, and afterwards
settled in Milan as a teacher of instrumental,
vocal, and theoretical music. In 1891 he was
appointed professor of counterpoint and composition
in the Palermo Conservatorio, and in
1892 a similar professorship was gained by him
in competition, at the Reale Istituto Musicale
at Florence, where he still resides. His works
include five operas :—
' Matelda,' 4 acts (Milan,
Teatro Dal Vei-me, 1876);