Jacob Schmitt

Jacob Schmitt, also called Jakob, Jaques or Jacques, (2 November 1803 – June 1853) was a German composer and piano teacher who worked in Hamburg.

[3] His father was already an aspiring musician, who supported his salary as a teacher by being an organist in the town’s parish church St. Peter and Paul.

In these letters, Schmitt initially asked for the financing of a new grand piano offering Andrè the rights to more compositions in return; after this request had been refused, Schmitt requested that at least his new works were included in André’s publishing and the support for a planned concert tour.

[10] The many moves into worse social areas of Hamburg as well as his letter correspondence at this time show that Schmitt lacked financial success.

[10] Schmitt created over 330 works mainly for piano,[2] amongst these numerous Sonatina, Divertissements, Nocturnes and other smaller pieces.

[13] In the contemporary "Encyclopedia of the whole musical sciences or universal lexicon of the musical art" (German: “Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften oder Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst”) Aloys was also considered to be the more important artist.