[1] He was the son of Adolf Martin Schlesinger, founder of the music journal Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung.
Maurice moved to Paris permanently in the 1820s where he founded a music publishing house closely linked to that of his father.
In 1834 he founded a society with the stated object of publishing both classical and contemporary music at reasonable prices.
He published works by Mozart, Haydn, Weber, Beethoven, Hummel, Chopin, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Hector Berlioz.
[2] He eventually sold his portion of the journal in 1846 to a former employee named Louis Brandus.