Aloys schmitt biography of martin

Few will have heard of Aloys Schmitt or a note of his music (though some of it remains in print and is readily available).

Aloys Schmitt was born on 26 August in Erlenbach am Main, Bavaria, and received his first musical training from his father Franz Bartholomäus Schmitt.

Aloys Schmitt was born on 26 August in Erlenbach am Main, Bavaria, and received his first musical training from his father Franz Bartholomäus Schmitt.

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Little of his output can have featured on any concert programme for many a long year. And yet we can say that, if not a genius on the same Olympian level as Weber, Hummel or Chopin, he was an accomplished and prolific composer of impressive achievements.

His teaching method became famous as the Schmitt school and was widely used. To Percy A Scholes (Oxford Companion to Music, ninth edition, 1955) he was ‘a notable pedagogue, and young people of all civilized nations have passed millions of hours in his company by the medium of “Exercises”’, though Scholes admits that these are ‘now largely discarded as lacking musical interest’.

Nevertheless, Schmitt’s educational works for piano-playing were held in high esteem by Liszt and were well thought of