Adolf Martin Schlesinger
Adolf Martin Schlesinger (initially Abraham Moses Schlesinger, born October 4, 1769 in Suelz in Silesia, † November 11, 1838 in Berlin) was a German music publisher and music dealers.
Life
The emancipation edict for the integration of the Prussian Jewry was a turning point in the life of an 40 -year-old Schlesinger. It put him in a position in 1810 officially became a book and music shop in Broad Street to open No. 8. He had already started in 1795 and operated from his home in Brüderstraße as well as a traveler a bookstore. Contemporaries described him as follows: "The old Schlesinger was a short, stocky, stout gentleman to whom you looked at his energy, his entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen instantly if he with his one eye - the left lacked (Note: Schlesinger had his eye through an accident lost ) - the visitor sharp eyed ". .
Schlesinger concluded in 1814 a larger contract with Carl Maria von Weber from, thus securing the most important works of the Master. The success of Weber's Der Freischütz made Adolf Martin Schlesinger became the most successful music publisher in Prussia. The popularly called the acquired business in 1823 building on Unter den Linden 34 therefore cry Fritz house. The elegant mahogany furnishing of the store was designed by the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Just two years after the first publication of the Freischütz led Schlesinger three actions for unauthorized reprints. Schlesinger said to the king, " allerunterthänigst Eigenthums to implore " him " to protect " his, after he had lost two processes. Schlesinger was the one music publisher, who in the following years led most emphatically processes throughout Germany. The emphasis problem became the central theme of life of the publisher. The Prussian law of 1837 and the subsequent federal decision showed traces of its activities, because with its inputs and privileges requests he had made the special problems of editing music repeatedly the subject of ministerial consultations.
1819 Schlesinger sent his son Maurice Schlesinger Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven gave him the dedication piece of faith and hope, and left the publishing his Scottish songs, the last three piano sonatas, and the Bagatelles. Other historically important publications came from the composer Gaspare Spontini, Cherubini, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Loewe, Mendelssohn, etc.
Schlesinger tried to win influence on the cultural life, and gave up to four magazines at the same time out. The frank ( Unterhaltungsblatt for educated, unbiased reader ) appeared 1825-1835, those of Adolf Bernhard Marx edited the Berlin General Music Newspapers 1824-1830, the Berlin Conversation Journal 1827-1838 ( 1830-1835 merged with the frank ), and from 1828 Berlin Art Journal by Schlesinger.
Schlesinger left his widow a million fortune. The business was continued by his son Henry until the sale to Robert Lienau Emil in 1864.