Schlesinger, Adolph Martin
Schlesinger, Heinrich, *1810 Berlin, †14 December 1879 Berlin, German music publisher, youngest son of Adolph Martin. While his father was alive, from 1831 he was the company’s representative. He expanded the publishing house and published works by H. Berlioz, P. Cornelius, F. Liszt, and F. Chopin (including numerous posthumous opuses). In 1851–65, he published the influential magazine “Echo,” which he edited himself from 1853. In the last years of his activity, he printed popular arrangements of famous works and reissued earlier editions of classical music. The slow decline in the company’s activity was interrupted by the entry of R. Lienau in 1863, who bought it the following year. Then the publishing house changed owners several times and in 1899 it ceased to exist. Autographs from Schlesinger’s legacy were sold in 1907 at auction in Berlin.
Literature: Adolph Martin Schlesinger, Robert Lienau. Berlin 1810–1960. 150 Jahre Musikuerlag, ed. R. Elvers, Berlin 1960.