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Gustav Schilling (musicologist)

Friedrich Gustav Schilling (3 November 1805 – March 1880) was a German musicologist, editor and lexicographer.

Life

Born in Schwiegershausen [de], Schilling was the son of a cantor and village schoolteacher and performed as a pianist at the age of ten. From 1823, he attended the University of Göttingen, studied theology there, and probably obtained a doctorate in philosophy.[1] In 1826, he went to the University of Halle, where he finished his studies. In 1830, he settled as a piano teacher in Stuttgart and became director of the music institute founded by Franz Stöpel.

He published numerous books on music and music education, in which he advocated a value-conservative-classical view of art, according to which the "perfection of mankind"[2] The standard of all art, connected with the popular educational ideal, was that music practice and music knowledge could be learned by all, if one only applied the right system. He became best known through the Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften (1835–1838), which he edited and in which numerous important musicians and scholars of the time participated. In some of his writings he was already accused by his contemporaries of plagiarism.[3][4][5][6][7][8] For example, his main work Versuch einer Philosophie des Schönen in der Musik (1838) draws on Carl Seidel's Charinomos. Beiträge zur allgemeinen Theorie und Geschichte der schönen Künste (two volumes, Magdeburg 1825 and 1828).[9] In part, he also plagiarised himself. In addition to plagiarism, contemporaries also criticised factual errors and unverified adoptions from other works in Schilling's encyclopaedias.[10] The criticisms, among others by Heinrich Dorn and Carl Ferdinand Becker, resulted in public polemics, which were published in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik edited by Robert Schumann and in the Jahrbüchern des deutschen National-Vereins für Musik und ihre Wissenschaften edited by Schilling.[11]

In 1839, Schilling founded the "Deutscher National-Verein für Musik und ihre Wissenschaft" (German National Association for Music and its Science) and won the Kassel Kapellmeister Louis Spohr for the presidency.[12] He became permanent secretary of this association and responsible editor of the Jahrbücher des Deutschen Nationalvereins für Musik und ihre Wissenschaft, which appeared from 1839 to 1843.[13]

He fled Stuttgart on 1 April 1857,[14] and travelled via Liverpool to the US, where he found shelter with one of his sons.[15][16][17] He lived first in New York, then in Canada, and finally in Nebraska, on his son's farm.[18][19] For debts amounting to 150,000 florins and forgery of bills of exchange, he was sentenced on 23 December 1862 "to a penal servitude of ten years."[20] However, extradition to Germany failed.

Schilling died in Crete, Nebraska.

Work

Works under the pseudonym "Dr. G. Penny"

References

  1. ^ Robert Eitner, Karl Ernst Hermann Krause (1890), "Schilling, Gustav", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–259, p. 257.
  2. ^ Gustav Schilling: Versuch einer Philosophie des Schönen in der Musik oder Ästhetik der Tonkunst, Mainz 1838
  3. ^ Stillfried-Alcantara, Rudolf Maria Bernhard; Märcker, Traugott (1847). Hohenzollerische Forschungen. 1,1: Schwäbische Forschung ; 1, Erster Bericht über die im allerhöchsten Auftrage ... in den Jahren 1845 und 1846 unternommenen Forschungen zur Aufklärung der älteren Geschichte des erlauchten Hauses Hohenzollern (in German). Berlin: Reimarus. p. 29. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum.
  4. ^ F. Hand: Warning. In Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, vol. 40, column 807 (about Schilling's Aesthetik der Tonkunst) Gustav Schilling is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
  5. ^ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik: das Magazin für neue Töne: gegr. 1834 von Robert Schumann, Verband Deutsche Oratorien und Kammerchöre (in German). Vol. 14. Leipzig: Schott. 1841. p. 9 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (in German). Vol. 43. Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann. 1841. pp. 247–248. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Hirschbach, Herrmann, ed. (1845). Musikalisch-kritisches Repertorium: aller neuen Erscheinungen im Gebiete der Tonkunst (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig. p. 212. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Hitzig, Julius Eduard, ed. (1841). Allgemeine Press-Zeitung. Annalen der Presse, der Literatur und des Buchhandels. Redigirt unter der Leitung von Julius Eduard Hitzig ... (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Weber. pp. 93–95. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Musik in Baden-Württemberg, vol. 17 (Jahrbuch 2010), Strube-Verlag, Munich, pp. 107–113; also important articles of the Encyclopädie (for example "Ästhetik" and "Acteur") adopt Seidel's text passages without indicating the source.
  10. ^ "An den Herrn Doctor Gustav Schilling in Stuttgart. (Mehr als Entgranung auf das Mehr als "Antifritif")". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (in German). No. 12. Leipzig. 9 February 1936. p. 52. ISSN 0945-6945. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  11. ^ Annegret Rosenmüller: Carl Ferdinand Becker (1804–1877). Studien zu Leben und Werk (Musikstadt Leipzig, vol. 4), Hamburg 2000, p. 69; weiterführend zu der sog. "Schilling-Affäre" vgl. ebd., pp. 69–77.
  12. ^ Jahrbücher des Deutschen Nationalvereins für Musik und ihre Wissenschaft 1. 1839 (in German). Karlsruhe: Groos. 1839. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
  13. ^ Robert Eitner, Karl Ernst Hermann Krause (1890), "Schilling, Gustav", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–259
  14. ^ Signale für die musikalische Welt, Jg. 15, Nr. 19 of 7 May 1857, p. 213 (Robert Eitner, Karl Ernst Hermann Krause (1890), "Schilling, Gustav", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–259
  15. ^ Bayerische Landbötin: 1860 (in German). Munich: Rösl. 1860. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  16. ^ Augsburger Tagblatt: 1860,1/4 (in German). Augsburg: Reichel. 1860. p. 598. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ Strack, Heinrich; Pletzer, Friedrich, eds. (1857). Bremer Sonntagsblatt: Organ des Künstlervereins, Volume 5 (in German). Bremen: Müller. p. 39. Retrieved 23 December 2023 – via Google Books.
  18. ^ "Vermischte Mittheilungen und Notizen". Musikalisches Wochenblatt (in German). No. 16. Leipzig. 9 April 1880. p. 202. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  19. ^ "Dur und Moll". Signale für die Musikalische Welt (in German). No. 37. Leipzig. 1880. p. 589. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  20. ^ Bayerischer Kurier: 1862,9/12 (in German). Munich. 1862. p. 2555. Retrieved 23 December 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Schilling lüftete das Pseudonym „Dr. G. Penny“ in seinem Versuch einer Philosophie des Schönen in der Musik…, Mainz 1838, p. 644.

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