Original sentence: At Halle, Franz filled various public offices, including those of organist to the city, conductor of the Singakademie and of the Symphony concerts, and he was also a royal music-director and master of the music at the university.He suffered in early life, as many musicians have suffered, from the hostility of his parents to a musical career.He was twenty years old when his father's animosity was conquered, and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Friedrich Schneider.The two years of study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel, his knowledge of which be showed in his editions of the St Matthew Passion, Magnificat, ten cantatas, and of Messiah and L'Allegro, though some of these editions have long been a subject of controversy among musicians
Edited sentence: At Halle, Franz filled various public offices, including those of organist to the city, conductor of the Sing-Akademie and of the Symphony concerts, and he was also a royal music-director and master of the music at the university.He was twenty years old when his father's animosity was conquered, and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Schneider.One of the most gifted of German song writers, he suffered in early life, as many musicians have suffered, from the hostility of his parents to a musical career.The two years of dry study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel, his knowledge of which be showed in his editions of the St Matthew Passion, Magnificat, ten cantatas, and of Messiah and L'Allegro, though some of these editions have long been a subject of controversy among musicians