A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Schilling, Gustav

by George Grove

SCHILLING, Dr. Gustav, author of a book much esteemed in Germany, though little known in England—'Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften, oder Universal Lexikon der Tonkunst.'^[1] He was born Nov. 3, 1805, at Schwiegershausen, Hanover, where his father was clergyman. He was brought up at Göttingen and Halle, and in 1830 settled in Stuttgart as director of Stöpel's Music School. In 1857 he went to America, and is now living in Montreal. He has published several other works bearing on music, but none of the importance of that already mentioned. [App. p.785 "Add date of death, 1880."]

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1. Encyclopædia of General Musical Knowledge, or Universal Lexicon of Music (7 vols. 8vo. Stuttgart, 1835–40).