A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Schloesser, Louis

by George Grove

SCHLOESSER, Louis, born at Darmstadt in 1800, learnt music there from Rinck, and in Vienna from Seyfried, Salieri, and Mayseder. In due time he entered the Conservatoire at Paris, and attended the violin class of Kreutzer and the composition class of Lesueur. He then went to Darmstadt and became first leader and then conductor of the Court band. His works comprise 5 operas, a melodrama, music to Faust, a mass, a ballet, and a quantity af instrumental music of all descriptions. His son, Carl Wilhelm Adolph, was born at Darmstadt Feb. 1, 1830. He was educated by his father, and in 1847 established himself at Frankfort. In 1854 he went to England, where he has been ever since settled in London as an esteemed teacher.

He has published both in England and Germany a great number of PF. works, both solos and duets; including a suite dedicated to Cipriani Potter, and a set of 24 studies; many songs and vocal pieces, including 'Merrily, merrily over the snow' and an 'Ave Maria'—and has many larger works in MS. His 'Schumann Evenings' were well known, and did much to advance the knowledge of Schumann in England.

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