George Schetky

George Schetky

George Schetky (June 1, 1776–1831)cite web|url=http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/schetky.html |title=Philadelphia Composers and Music Publishers: George Schetky (1776-1831)|work=Penn Library Department of Special Collections|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|accessdate=2008-04-22] was an American composer. Schetky was a violoncellist, music teacher, conductor, and one of the first American composers. He was also a music publisher with Benjamin Carr as his partner. [cite book|last=Carr|first=Benjamin|authorlink = Benjamin Carr|title=Selected Secular and Sacred Songs - Preface|publisher=A-R Editions, Inc.|location=Madison, Wisconsin|date=June 1986|isbn=0895792044| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=955hQb_U8KAC|accessdate=2008-04-21] [cite journal|last=Dean|first=Geoffrey|title=The Cello in Eighteen-Century America|journal=Muzikalni horizonti|location=Sofia, Bulgaria|issue=June 2003|url=http://home.aubg.bg/faculty/dean/articles/18thcamcello.html|format = repring|accessdate=2008-04-21]

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Philadelphia in 1787. In 1812, Schetky returned to Scotland, in protest to the War of 1812 since the war was against his native country. He returned to Philadelphia after the war in 1817. [cite web| last =Hirshorn| first =Anne Sue| title =Portraits in miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky| work =Antiques Magazine| date =2002-02-01| url =http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-82782192.html| format = fee required| accessdate =2008-04-21]

He was one of the founding members of the The Musical Fund Society. [http://phonoarchive.org/grove/Entries/S21550.htm Phono Archive] [cite web| title =Philadelphia| work =GROVE Dictionary of Music & Musicians| url =http://phonoarchive.org/grove/Entries/S21550.htm | accessdate =2008-04-21] [cite book| last =Sanjek| first =Russell| title =American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume II From 1790 to 1909| publisher =Oxford University Press| date =1988-07-28| location =New York| url =http://books.google.com/books?id=7UbS22L6neQC| isbn =0195043103 |accessdate=2008-04-21] [cite book| last =Hommann| first =Charles| title =Chamber music for strings| publisher =A-R Editions, Inc.| date =December 1998| location =Madison, Wisconsin| url =http://books.google.com/books?id=Ms0t5Ak-s64C| isbn =089579411X| accessdate = 2008-04-21]

Publications

The Musical Journal for the Piano Forte.

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