Walter Hinrichsen

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Walter Hinrichsen (born September 23, 1907 in Leipzig , † July 21, 1969 in New York City ) was a German-American music publisher.

Life

Talstrasse 10 in Leipzig , home of Walter Hinrichsen and headquarters of Edition Peters

Walter Hinrichsen was the fourth child and the second son of the music publisher Henri Hinrichsen and his wife Martha geb. Bendix (1879-1941). He had two sisters and four brothers, including Max Hinrichsen . His paternal ancestors were descended from Ruben Henriques, a Sephardic who came to Glückstadt in 1646 and whose descendants were court agents in Mecklenburg-Schwerin for several generations . His parents and two brothers were victims of the Shoah . Four stumbling blocks in front of the Talstrasse house remind of their fate . 10 in Leipzig. Max Reger dedicated a lullaby to his mother and himself . After graduating from high school in Leipzig, Walter Hinrichsen studied at the Leipzig Concert Hall . From 1927 to 1930 he did various internships with international music publishers, including Anton J. Benjamin in Hamburg , Foetisch in Lausanne , Schott Frères in Brussels and Augener in London . Then he returned to Leipzig, on May 1, 1931 he joined the family business, the music publisher CF Peters . Here he was particularly responsible for exports. In 1933 he went on a trip around the world to strengthen business relationships.

Under the impression of the increasing persecution of the Jews , Hinrichsen emigrated to the USA in March 1936 . He found a job with a music publisher in Chicago . In 1942 he joined the US Army . As part of the "Allied Expeditionary Force" he came to Europe in 1944/45. After the war ended, he worked as a music officer for the American sector in Berlin from 1945 to 1947 . In this capacity he was responsible for setting up the Inter-allied Music Library . He had already come to Leipzig in April 1945. He succeeded in declaring the company aryanized by the National Socialists as American property and thus getting it back. He appointed Johannes Petschull (1901–2001), who had headed the publishing house since the Aryanization, as an authorized representative and had several boxes of printing plates and sheet music from the holdings of the Peters Music Library put together as family property and sent to the USA.

They served him from 1948 as start-up capital for the establishment of the CF Peters publishing house in New York City. In 1948 Petschull brought publishing documents to Switzerland and fled to the West in 1949, where another publishing branch was founded in Frankfurt am Main . The Leipzig part of the company was expropriated again at the end of 1948 and forcibly made public property in 1950 . In the USA, Hinrichsen expanded the publishing program to include living composers such as John Cage and promoted new music , for which he received several awards.

He was married to Evelyn, b. Merrell of Chicago (November 30, 1910 - January 14, 2005) The couple had a daughter, Martha (1948–2016), and a son, Henry Hans Hinrichsen (1949–2016), who succeeded the company. Walter Hinrichsen's grandson Christian is a shareholder in the Edition Peters Group, which was reunited in 2010 .

memory

In memory of Walter Hinrichsen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awards the Walter Hinrichsen Award , donated by CF Peters in 1984, for the publication of a composition by a young composer.

Awards

  • Honorary Degree from the National Association for American Composers and Conductors (1963)
  • Laurel Leaf Award of the American Composers Alliance (1964)

Works

  • Around the earth in one hundred and eighty days. Leipzig: Hinrichsen 1934
  • German music life as seen by Walter Hinrichsen. In: Hinrichsen's Musical Year Book 4/5 (1947/48), pp. 356-360

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Leipzig , accessed on December 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Catalog entry for the autograph, Sotheby’s , auction on November 28, 2012, accessed on December 10, 2019
  3. ↑ Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen (Lit), p. 194; see Inter-allied Music Library
  4. ↑ See Norbert Molkenbur: CF Peters 1800–2000. Selected stations in a publishing history. Sachsenbuch, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-89664-039-9
  5. ↑ Obituary in the New York Times, January 17, 2005, accessed December 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Publishing history , accessed December 9, 2019
  7. ↑ Awards , accessed on December 9, 2019, there also a list of the winners from 2010 to 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichsen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1969
Place of death New York City