A publishing company’s story
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
On one December 1800 the conductor and composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812)entered into partnership using the bookseller and organist Ambrosius K?hnel (1770-1813) for that purpose of establishing a ‘Bureau de Musique’ in Leipzig. This first venture extended its actions to printing and music engraving together with including publishing amenities combined using the sale of musical instruments and sheet new music. The publishing facet of the enterprise was launched with collections of Haydn’s String Quartets, Mozart’s Quartets and Quintets as well as the initial edition of J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Works in 14 volumes to which J.N. Forkel contributed the first Bach monograph at any time to become composed. As early as 1802, the publishers succeeded in acquiring piano and chamber music from Beethoven, in addition to the composer’s Very first Symphony and 2nd Piano Concerto.
Carl Friedrich Peters
In 1806 the business passed in to the sole possession of a. K?hnel when it had been officially registered below the title ‘Neuer Verlag des Bureau de Musique’. Forkel augmented the Bach collection with the addition with the composer’s Organ Operates. Other additions comprised Gerber’s Dictionary of Musicians and instructional performs for piano and violin written by celebrated Viennese/Parisian academicians in the day. In 1812 the variety was enhanced by works representative with the early Romantic College, for example those of Weber and Spohr.
Subsequent K?hnel’s untimely demise, the company was acquired with the Leipzig bookseller Carl Friedrich Peters (1779-1827), who traded from one April 1814 under the title ‘Bureau de Musique de Do.F. Peters’. Despite the economic malaise that adopted the War of Liberation (1813-15), catalogues had been issued through the publisher, new additions becoming Theodor K?rner’s War Songs and John Field’s Nocturnes. Negotiations conducted with Beethoven involving the publication of a total edition from the composer’s works fell by means of.
Soon after a long sickness, Do.F. Peters died in 1827. The enterprise went to his seven-year-old daughter and was acquired from her in 1828 by her Guardian, the manufacturer Carl Gotthelf Siegmund B?hme (1785-1855). A great lover of songs, B?hme widened the publishing activities with a big number of new acquisitions apart from attracting Carl Czerny towards the employees as editor from the Bach sequence, which includes the Solo Concertos, Brandenburg Concertos, the Orchestral Suites and the Artwork of Fugue. B?hme also played an active function in the formation of the first confederation of audio publishers for that objective of securing legal protection. A most influential body, this alliance included such names as Andr?, Breitkopf & H?rtel, Hofmeister, Peters, Schott and Simrock.
In compliance with B?hme’s last will and testament, the organization was converted into a charitable foundation below the control and supervision with the Leipzig City Council. During this period the enterprise was managed by Theodor Whistling, but when he resigned in 1860 the Board of Administrators resolved to dispose of the agency to the bookseller and music dealer, Julius Friedl?nder. Friedl?nder introduced substantial improvements to the process of music engraving and drew the attention in the public to ‘cheap yet critically accurate editions’.
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