Adolf Martin Schlesinger
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Adolf Martin Schlesinger (b. Sülz, Silesia,4 October 1769, d. Berlin, 11 October 1838) was a German Jewish music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in the early nineteenth century.
Schlesinger began in the book business in Berlin in 1795 and founded a music publishing house there in 1810. The firm expanded over the next decade to include leading composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. It also published military music for the Prussian state. Schlesinger's ongoing lobbying on the issue of musical copyright was a major factor in the introduction of the influential Prussian copyright law of 1830.
Schlesinger's son Moritz Adolf (Maurice) Schlesinger later started a branch of the firm in Paris, and another son, Heinrich, took over the Berlin branch.
The Paris firm became a leader of musical taste, publishing the music of Chopin, Liszt and Meyerbeer amongst others. It also published the principal Paris musical magazine the Revue et gazette musicale. The composer Richard Wagner worked for Maurice Schlesinger in Paris in 1840-1841, turning out hack arrangements of opera excerpts.
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