Maurice Schlesinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German music publisher
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Maurice Schlesinger
- Moritz Adolf Schlesinger (30 October 1798 in Berlin - 25 February 1871 in Baden-Baden), generally known during his French career as Maurice Schlesinger, was a German music editor.
- He is perhaps best remembered for inspiring the character of M.
- Arnoux in Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education.He was the son of Adolf Martin Schlesinger, founder of the music journal Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung.
- Maurice moved to Paris permanently in the 1820s where he founded a music publishing house closely linked to that of his father.
- In 1834 he founded a society with the stated object of publishing both classical and contemporary music at reasonable prices.
- He published works by Mozart, Haydn, Weber, Beethoven, Hummel, Chopin, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Hector Berlioz.
- He employed Richard Wagner, as an arranger and journalist, during the latter's first visit to Paris in 1840-41, and made the first introduction of Wagner to Franz Liszt.
- Schlesinger created the journal Gazette musicale, which he later combined with the Revue musicale of François-Joseph Fétis.
- He eventually sold his portion of the journal in 1846 to a former employee named Louis Brandus.
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