A publishing company’s history
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
On one December 1800 the conductor and composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812)entered into partnership with the bookseller and organist Ambrosius K?hnel (1770-1813) for your goal of setting up a ‘Bureau de Musique’ in Leipzig. This preliminary enterprise prolonged its activities to printing and new music engraving in addition to such as publishing facilities mixed with the sale of musical instruments and sheet songs. The publishing aspect in the company was launched with collections of Haydn’s String Quartets, Mozart’s Quartets and Quintets together with the very first version of J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Performs in 14 volumes to which J.N. Forkel contributed the initial Bach monograph ever before to be published. As early as 1802, the publishers succeeded in getting piano and chamber new music from Beethoven, along with the composer’s Initial Symphony and Second Piano Concerto.
Carl Friedrich Peters
In 1806 the organization handed in to the sole possession of a. K?hnel when it was formally registered below the name ‘Neuer Verlag des Bureau de Musique’. Forkel augmented the Bach sequence from the addition in the composer’s Organ Functions. Other additions comprised Gerber’s Dictionary of Musicians and academic operates for piano and violin composed by celebrated Viennese/Parisian academicians from the day. In 1812 the assortment was enhanced by operates representative from the early Romantic College, like individuals of Weber and Spohr.
Subsequent K?hnel’s untimely death, the firm was acquired with the Leipzig bookseller Carl Friedrich Peters (1779-1827), who traded from one April 1814 below the title ‘Bureau de Musique de Do.F. Peters’. Regardless of 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 complete version from the composer’s performs fell via.
Soon after a lengthy 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 producer Carl Gotthelf Siegmund B?hme (1785-1855). A terrific lover of songs, B?hme widened the publishing activities with a big number of new acquisitions in addition to attracting Carl Czerny towards the employees as editor of the Bach series, which includes the Solo Concertos, Brandenburg Concertos, the Orchestral Suites along with 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 safety. A most influential body, this alliance incorporated 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 company was managed by Theodor Whistling, but when he resigned in 1860 the Board of Administrators resolved to dispose with the agency towards the bookseller and new music dealer, Julius Friedl?nder. Friedl?nder introduced substantial improvements to the process of new music engraving and drew the attention from the public to ‘cheap yet critically accurate editions’.
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