A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Schebek, Edmund

by George Grove

SCHEBEK, Edmund, a distinguished and influential Austrian amateur, Doctor of Law, Imperial councillor, and secretary to the Chamber of Commerce at Prague, was born Oct. 22, 1819, at Petersdorf in Moravia. He began his musical career as head of a Society at Olmütz, and continued it at Prague, where in conjunction with Weiss, the superior of the Capuchins, and Krejci, he has revived much of the best old Italian church music. He has devoted his attention specially to the construction of the violin, in relation to which he has published very interesting treatises—On the Orchestral Instruments in the Paris^[1] Exhibition of 1855; On the Cremonese instruments, à propos to the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and 'the Italian Violin manufacture and its German origin.'^[2] He has also published a valuable little pamphlet on Froberger. Dr. Schebek possesses a fine collection of ancient stringed instruments, Beethoven autographs, etc.

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1. 'Die Orchester-Instrumente auf der Pariser Weltausstellung im Jahre 1855' (Vienna, Staatsdruckerel, 1858).
2. 'Der Geigenbau in Italien und sein deutscher Ursprung' (Vienna, 1872 and 1874).