Maurice Schlesinger
Maurice Schlesinger ( born October 30, 1798 in Berlin, † February 25, 1871 in Baden -Baden; actually Moritz Adolph Schlesinger ) was a German music publisher.
Biography
Maurice Schlesinger was born as Abraham Mora. He worked in his father's company by Adolf Martin Schlesinger and visited 1819 Ludwig van Beethoven on behalf of his father. In 1821 he went on a business trip to Paris, stayed there and called himself henceforth Maurice. He opened his own music store in publishing and devoted himself to the introduction of German composers in France. With his father he published at the same time, the last three piano sonatas by Beethoven, etc., to obtain a mutual Publisher protection in both countries. Among his first publications include piano scores to the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In addition, he introduced the works of Carl Maria von Weber and Johann Nepomuk Hummel in France.
From the Paris interaction of German and zoom educated at German art piano virtuoso that begat for a charitable cause certain, was published by Maurice Schlesinger Concert Piece Hexameron. This Grandes Variations de bravoura sur la " Marche de Puritains " de Bellini were six of the most important pianists, namely Franz Liszt, Sigismund Thalberg, Johann Peter Pixis, Henri Herz, Carl Czerny and Chopin composed and performed together. All these virtuosos were not born in Paris but worked from there.
1826 burned Schlesinger's music-shop in the Rue Richelieu 97 completely. Not only numerous manuscripts of publishing authors were lost, also the valuable letters of Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1835 Maurice Schlesinger secured the publishing rights to Jacques Fromental Halévy's opera La Juive ( The Jewess ) and later at the flash. The Piano Reine de Chypre he had six years later customize by Richard Wagner. The opera was a great success. Halévy could not understand is why is Reine de Chypre the audience liked after his last operas were failed. He wrote this success to the skill of his publisher.
Maurice Schlesinger employed the young Richard Wagner on mediation by Giacomo Meyerbeer 1840-1841 with the writing out of piano arrangements. These were indeed profitable, but unworthy of the master orders. Richard Wagner wrote: "He ( Meyerbeer ) led me to that effect at his publisher Maurice Schlesinger, left me to the fate of this monstrous acquaintance and traveled to Germany from. ". Although Schlesinger kept the composer from complete financial collapse, he showed for his own compositions no interest: " In about sly Paris Musikfaktotums Maurice Schlesinger's fame, the greatest German opera composer to have held the coveted him musical and literary custom work over water two years is not reduced by the misunderstanding of Wagner's values ... ".
Maurice Schlesinger began with the Revue et Gazette musicale, which served the interests of the German music to influence the musical life of France in unexpected ways. In his choice of means he was not serious and was a feared Wheeler, if you stood with him on the war footing. Heinrich Heine criticized the unworthy in his eyes behavior of artists and composers against the all-powerful music publisher Maurice Schlesinger: "I could see with my own eyes how his servant were those famous feet and crawled in front of him and waved, in order to be praised in his journal "..
Maurice Schlesinger married Elisa Foucault and converted for them to Christianity. 1836 met the couple in Trouville the French writer Gustave Flaubert know. Flaubert fell in love with the eleven years older than Elisha, and she remained his lifelong ideal. The couple Schlesinger was the inspiration for the protagonist of the novel The education of the emotions.
At the height of the economic boom of his company sold Maurice Schlesinger in 1846 surprising his company to his "premier commis " Louis Brandus. Schlesinger retired as a pensioner first back to Vernon, then to Baden -Baden. The publishing house changed hands several times and the owner went out 1899.