found: Grove Music online, 12 Apr. 2016(Anton Schmid; Austrian writer on music; born Pihl, nr Česká Lípa, Bohemia, 30 Jan 1787; died Salzburg, 3 July 1857; after his initial instruction in singing and the piano, he received further musical education after 1798 as a singer in the monastery of the Calced Augustinians in Česká Lípa; from 1804 he lived as a theatre musician and music teacher in Prague, where he also began his literary activity; in 1812 he settled as a private teacher in Vienna; he became a drafting probationer for the Viennese court library in 1818, and was made a Skriptor in 1819 and a Kustos in 1844; he organized the collection which became the basis for the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and was its first keeper; from this task arose not only his fundamental studies on the history of printing music from movable type, but also his more than 500 supplements and reports appended to C.F. Becker's "Systematisch-chronologische Darstellung der musikalischen Literatur" from 1839, as well as his 'Beiträge zur Literatur und Geschichte der Tonkunst' which appeared in the Mainz journal Caecilia from 1842 to 1848; his other writings on music are concerned with Gluck and with the problems of 18th-century Viennese music history; he also published a bibliography of chess in 1847)
