Schilling, Gustav

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Schilling, Gustav

Schilling, Gustav, German musical lexicographer; b. Schwiegershausen, near Hannover, Nov. 3, 1805; d. Crete, Nebr., March 1880. He studied theology and music in Göttingen and Halle, then was active as a writer on theology, music, and politics. When he was prosecuted for debt in 1857, he fled to the U.S. and later settled in Nebr. His most important work was the Enzyklopädie der gesummten musikalischen Wissenschaften oder Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst (6 vols., 1835–38; second ed., 7 vols., 1840–42); also pub. Versuch einer Philosophie des Schönen in der Musik (1838), Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Musikwissenschaft (1840), Geschichte der heutigen oder modernen Musik (1841), Die musikalische Europa (1842), Musikalische Dynamik; oder, Die Lehre vom Vortrage in der Musik (1843), Der Pianist (1843), Franz Liszt (1844), Sicher Schlüssel zur Klaviervirtuosität (1844), Die schöne Kunst der Töne (1847), Musikalische Didaktik (1851), Allgemeine Volksmusiklehre (1852), and Akustik oder die Lehre vom Klange (second ed., 1856).

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