Gustav Schilling

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Friedrich Gustav Schilling (born November 3, 1805 in Schwiegershausen , † March 1880 in Crete , Nebraska ) was a German music writer and lexicographer .

Life

Schilling was the son of a cantor and village school teacher and he was already performing as a pianist at the age of ten. From 1823 he attended the University of Göttingen , where he studied theology and probably did a doctorate in philosophy . In 1826 he went to the University of Halle , where he finished his studies. In 1830 he settled in Stuttgart as a piano teacher and became director of the music institute founded by Franz Stöpel .

He has published numerous books on music and music education, in which he represents a conservative, classicist conception of art, according to which the “perfection of humanity” is the yardstick of all art, combined with the popular educational ideal that everyone can learn about music and music knowledge if one only has the right one Apply system. He became best known for the Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences (1835–1838), which he published and which included numerous important musicians and scholars of the time. With some of his writings he was accused of plagiarism by his contemporaries . For example, his main work, Attempting a Philosophy of the Beautiful in Music (1838), both in its basic structure and in the wording over longer stretches of Carl Seidel's Charinomos. Contributions to the general theory and history of the fine arts (two volumes, Magdeburg 1825 and 1828). Sometimes he plagiarized himself.

Schilling founded the "German National Association for Music and Science" in 1839 and won the Kassel conductor Ludwig Spohr for the presidency . He became permanent secretary of this association and responsible editor of the yearbooks of the German National Association for Music and its Science , which appeared from 1839 to 1843.

In April 1857 he fled Stuttgart and traveled to the USA via Liverpool , where he found shelter with one of his sons. Due to debts of 150,000 guilders and forgery of bills of exchange, he was sentenced on December 23, 1862 "to a prison term of ten years." An extradition to Germany failed, however.

Works

  • De Revelatione divina . Diss. Phil., 1829
  • Relatio affectuum ad summam facultatem cognoscendi . Diss. Phil., 1830
  • What is to blame for the hopeless ferment and unrest of our day, and how can they be remedied? A word of its time for everyone . Stuttgart 1830
  • Concise musical dictionary together with some general philosophical-historical remarks on the art of music . 1830
  • Aesthetic lighting of the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart. A contemporary word for all theater directors, all artists and the entire art-loving public . Stuttgart 1832
  • Letters about external eloquence or ecclesiastical declamation and action . Stuttgart 1833; 2nd revised edition 1838, first volume, 1833 , second volume, 1833
  • The art of outer pulpit eloquence, or the doctrine of ecclesiastical declamation and action . 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1845, books.google.de
  • Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences, or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst , 6 volumes and an additional volume, Stuttgart 1835–1838 (2nd edition 1840–1842) ( digitized Google , digitized Hathi Trust )
  • Attempt a philosophy of beauty in music, or the aesthetics of music. At the same time a supplement to all major musical theories, and a manual and reading book for the educated from all classes to promote a good taste in musical matters . Mainz 1838, archive.org
  • General bass teaching, with special consideration for budding musicians, organists and educated amateurs . Darmstadt 1839, books.google.de
  • Polyphonomos, or the art of acquiring a complete knowledge of musical harmony in thirty-six lessons. A textbook, at the same time to awaken and promote a genuine musical education . Stuttgart 1839, archive.org
  • Yearbooks of the German National Association for Music and its Science , Karlsruhe 1839–1842 ( digitized Google )
  • Popular introduction to all the writings of the New Testament for the educated Christian of every class and every confession, especially the religion teacher of German elementary schools , Reutlingen 1840
  • Textbook of general musicology, or of what anyone who plays or wants to learn music needs to know. Using a new method, for self-teaching and as a guide in all types of practical and theoretical music lessons . Karlsruhe 1840, books.google.de
  • History of today's or modern music. In their connection with general world and peoples history . Karlsruhe 1841, archive.org
  • The musical Europe, or collection of consistently authentic life news about excellent musicians, music scholars, composers, virtuosos, singers & c. Now living in Europe. & c. Speyer 1842, archive.org
  • Guide to teaching and instruction in harmony, especially according to the author's system (Polyphonomos). Processed in catechetical form . Stuttgart 1842, archive.org
  • The pianist or the art of piano playing in its entirety presented theoretically and practically . Osterode 1843, archive.org
  • Musical dynamics or the teaching of performing in music . Kassel 1843, archive.org
  • History of the House of Hohenzollern in genealogically continuous biographies of all its rulers from the oldest to the most recent. Based on documents and other authentic sources , Leipzig 1843 (digitized version)
  • Franz Liszt . His life and work, presented at close inspection . Stuttgart 1844, archive.org
  • Safe key to the art of piano virtuosity . Stuttgart 1844, archive.org
  • Musical autodidact or guidance to complete knowledge of musical harmony through self-teaching . 1846
  • Beethoven album. A memorial book of grateful love and admiration for the great dead, donated and described by an association of artists and art lovers from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Hungary and Russia . Stuttgart no year [1846]
  • Concise musical conversation dictionary, containing the explanation of all objects, art expressions, characters &: for artists and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, teachers and learners of music, belonging to the field of theoretical and practical music . Stuttgart 1849
  • Musical didactics or the art of teaching music. A necessary manual and auxiliary book for all teachers and learners of music, educators, school understanders, organists, elementary school teachers, etc. Eisleben 1851, archive.org
  • General folk music teaching or didactic presentation of everything that is taught in music in all schools, from grammar schools and higher daughter schools down to the smallest village school, as well as in the various amateur clubs, as song tables, song wreaths, harmonies & c. & c. has to teach necessary to achieve his actual educational purpose . Augsburg 1852, archive.org
  • The ocean, or physical-geographical-historical description of the ocean and its individual parts, Stuttgart Verlags-Bureau ( 1845 , 1849 )

Works under the pseudonym “Dr. G. Penny "

  • Guido. A story based on life , 2 volumes, 1832
  • Peter Joseph Lindpaintner , in: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , vol. 37, no. 40 of October 7, 1835, columns 661-670 and no. 41 of October 14, 1835, columns 677-682
  • Germany's beautiful literature of the present and future. A speech to the entire German reading public , Reutlingen 1836
  • Signpost through Göttingen and its surroundings , Stuttgart 1837 (= pocket library for travelers on trains, steamships and express wagons , Volume 8)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Eitner, Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Schilling, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 256-259., P. 257.
  2. ↑ Gustav Schilling: Attempting a Philosophy of Beauty in Music or Aesthetics of Tonkunst , Mainz 1838, p. 29.
  3. ^ Rudolf Maria Bernhard von Stillfried-Alcantara, T. Märcker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen . Part I: Swabian research. Reimarus, Berlin 1847, p. 29 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ F. Hand: Warning. In: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Volume 40, Column 807 (about Schilling's Aesthetics of Tonkunst) Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  5. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 14 (on Schilling's Polyphonomos; digitized version ).
  6. ^ General musical newspaper , Volume 43 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Musical-Critical Repertory , Volume 2 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Allgemeine Press-Zeitung , Volume 2, 1841, p. 141 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Musik in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 17 (2010 yearbook), Strube-Verlag, Munich, pp. 107–113; important articles in the encyclopedia (e.g. “Aesthetics” and “Acteur”) also take over Seidel text passages without citing the source.
  10. ^ Yearbooks of the German National Association for Music and Science . First year 1839, March 1839, p. 4; Digital copy: Bavarian State Library (BSB) Munich
  11. ^ Robert Eitner , Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Schilling, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 256-259.
  12. ^ Signals for the musical world , Vol. 15, No. 19 of May 7, 1857, p. 213 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ Bayerische Landbötin , 1860 ( digitized version ).
  14. ^ Augsburger Tagblatt , 1860, 1/4 ( digitized version ).
  15. ^ Bremer Sonntagsblatt. Organ of the artists' association , Volume 5 ( digitized version ).
  16. ↑ Bayerischer Kurier , No. 359, December 31, 1862, p. 2555 ( books.google.de ).
  17. ↑ Schilling released the pseudonym “Dr. G. Penny “in his attempt at a philosophy of beauty in music… , Mainz 1838, p. 644
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music writer and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiegershausen near Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH March 1880
Place of death Crete , Nebraska