Adolf Robitschek

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 15.2 ″  E

Adolf Robitschek Gesellschaft mbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1870
Seat	Vienna , Austria
management	Katharina Treml-Löffler
Branch	Book and media industry

The company Adolf Robitschek is a Viennese music publisher and former supplier to the Imperial and Royal Court . The address is Wickenburggasse 7–9 in Vienna's 8th district, Josefstadt.

history

Leopold Buchholz in 1870 founded the publishing house Buchholz & Diebel in Opava . He also ran his own range and a rental company. In 1873 the company moved its headquarters to Vienna and first moved to Bräunerstraße 2 in the 1st district. Ferdinand Rebay and Wilhelm Stenzl bought the retail and the rental company, while the publishing business remained with Buchholz & Diebel. Wilhelm Stenzl left the company in 1879 and Adolf Robitschek (* 1853 in Neutitschein ; † February 18, 1934 in Vienna), the son of a Bohemian cloth manufacturer and a music retailer, bought himself in on September 27 of the same year. In 1883, Buchholz & Diebel's publishing business was also taken over.

The composer Theodor Franz Schild joined the publishing house in 1886 and worked there until his death in 1929.

The shop at the corner of Graben / Bräunerstrasse, around 1900

In 1887 Adolf Robitschek became the sole owner of the company and continued to expand the publishing house. At the time, his publishing house mainly published works by Austrian composers such as Anton Bruckner , Ignaz Brüll , Robert Fuchs and Franz Lehár . One focus was choral music , which is still an essential pillar of the publishing house today.

In 1893 the music store Rudolf Bußjäger (formerly Bösendorfer) in Vienna was acquired, but the store in Herrengasse was retained. The business was then merged from 1907 on Graben 14 and Bräunerstraße 2. There were branches in Leipzig at Salomonstraße 16 and in Wiesbaden .

In 1901 Robitschek was one of the three founders (the others were Josef Weinberger and Bernhard Herzmansky von Doblinger) of Universal Edition Aktiengesellschaft based in Vienna. Robitschek had 304 shares in the new company. In 1907, the company also took over delivery of the Universal Edition to Austria-Hungary, Italy and the Balkans.

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  Leopoldine Kutzel as "Die harbe Poldi" (Verlag Rebay & Robitschek)

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  JF Wagner's Opus 159 from Rebay & Robitschek

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  Vienna, you city of my dreams was published by Adolf Robitschek

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  JF Wagner's Opus 356 from the Adolf Robitschek publishing house

With this success, Adolf Robitschek was finally appointed "kuk court music dealer". With this appointment, the opening times changed; a special weekly sales day was established for the courtyard on which the shop was closed to the general public. In 1909 the publisher's catalog contained around 4,500 works. Schlager like Servus Du by Robert Stolz , Unter dem Doppel-Adler by Josef Franz Wagner (1902), Vienna, you city of my dreams , better known as Vienna, Vienna only you by Rudolf Sieczyński (1912) were published by Robitschek. Hugo Winkelmann described Adolf Robitschek in a letter to the music teacher Hans Wagner-Schönkirch in 1907 as "a certain ideally thinking and acting person who promotes some talent ...".

Gravestone for Adolf Robitschek (1853–1934) at the Gersthofer Friedhof

The First World War and the collapse of the monarchy brought difficult times for the company, and large parts of the sales market in the former crown lands failed. It wasn't until the 1920s that it slowly recovered.

Adolf Robitschek died in 1934 and was buried in the Gersthofer Friedhof (group 2, row 4, no. 40). His son Adolf Robitschek (junior) took over the company. He had to give up the business on Graben, but kept the restaurant on Bräunerstrasse. In the course of acts of war during the Second World War, Adolf Robitschek has been missing in Russia since August 1943, his widow Maria Robitschek († 1951) took over the management. She was supported by the authorized signatory Michael Hammer († 1947). In 1948, Adolf Robitschek's cousin, Karl Robitschek, joined the company as an employee. In 1951, together with Hedwig Robitschek, he took over the publishing house, the musical range and the antiquarian bookshop.

In 1977 Gerhard Löffler became managing director. He introduced new publisher's catalogs and his own choir pieces and rediscovered the works by Robert Fuchs published by Robitschek. Hedwig Robitschek's two daughters, Karin Reitz and Hedda Löffler, ran the business at Bräunerstraße 2 until the establishment was closed in 2007. The publishing house is still family-owned.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letters from musicians. (No longer available online.) In: 336 / 3- 8. L. as [lettre autographe signée] 2ff, 4pp. Austrian National Library, September 12, 1907, archived from the original on November 18, 2007 ; accessed on March 23, 2009 (Vienna, regest catalog).  

literature

• János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 66-69.
• Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
• Reinhold Westphal: Robitschek in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Volume 4. (Ed. Rudolf Flotzinger), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-7001-3046-8 .

Documents

A correspondence with the publishing house CF Peters can be found in the holdings of the Leipzig music publishing house CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .