Schmid, Anton

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Schmid, Anton

Schmid, Anton, Austrian writer on music; b. Pihl, near Leipa, Bohemia, Jan. 30, 1787; d. Salzburg, July 3, 1857. After studying singing at the monastery of the Caked Augustinians in Leipa, he went to Vienna, where he was employed as a librarian (1819) and custodian (1844) at the court library, where he compiled the collection that became the Austrian National Library.

Writings

Ottaviano dei Petrucci da Fossombrone, der erste Erfinder des Musiknotendruckes mit beweglichen Metalltypen, und seine Nachfolger im 16. Jahrhundert (Vienna, 1845); Joseph Haydn und Niccolo Zingarelli (Vienna, 1847); Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck: Dessen leben und tonkünstlerisches Wirkens (Leipzig, 1854).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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