Carlo Schmidl

Carlo Schmidl (born October 7, 1859 in Trieste , Austrian Empire , † October 7, 1943 in Trieste ) was an Italian - Austrian music publisher and art collector.

Life

His father Anton Schmidl (1814–1880) was concert director and moved from Budapest to Trieste. Carlo (Carl) Schmidl learned music theory and the violin from his father. In 1872, at the age of thirteen, he began to work as a copyist and secretary at the Fondaco Vicentini, one of the then larger Trieste music publishers. In 1889 he founded his own music business, Carlo Schmidl & Co., to which he incorporated the Fondaco Vicentini the following year. In 1902 he sold his company to the Milan music publisher Ricordi , for which he founded a branch in Leipzig in 1901 and which he managed until 1906.

In the following years he published works and biographies of Italian and Austrian composers, among other things, while collecting numerous manuscripts, early prints and other materials relating to theater and music. In 1924 he concluded an agreement with the city of Trieste to establish a museum at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi . He allowed the collection he had assembled over fifty years to flow into this museum and left this collection to the city after his death. The Carlo Schmidl Municipal Theater Museum has been named after him since 1947 and is now housed in the Palazzo Gopcevich on the Grand Canal.

Publications

• Dizionario universale dei musicisti vol. 1, Ricordi , Milan, 1887–1890
• Dizionario universale dei musicisti vol. 2, Ricordi, Milan, 1928–1929

Web links

• Schmidl, Carlo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlo Schmidl , from "I libri della musica" from the University of Milan
2. ↑ History of the Theater Museum , trieste.it