AMA publishing house

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AMA publishing house

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legal form GmbH
founding 1989
Seat Brühl , NRW, Germany
management Detlef Kessler
Branch Music publisher
Website ama-verlag.com

The AMA Verlag is a medium-sized German music publisher .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1989 by Detlef Kessler in Brühl and has been run ever since. He studied music at the universities in Berlin and Weimar . The first published book was Die Neue Harmonielehre - Volume 1 by Frank Haunschild . AMA was originally a classic sheet music publisher. Later the publisher was the first to sell books with CDs. Teaching materials for rock , pop and jazz music were created for music schools and universities . Foreign language literature is now offered in Chinese, English, French and Japanese. After German reunification, the East German became avant-garde- u. a. Reiner Bredemeyer , Kurt Schwaen and Georg Katzer - included in the program. The archive of the International Music Library was acquired and kept in Berlin until Udo Zimmermann brought it to Dresden.

The authors include Richard Addison , Rainer Baumann , Zakhar Bron , Morscheck & Burgmann , Peter Bursch , Udo Dahmen , Claus Fischer , Peter Fischer , Hellmut Hattler , Barbara Kellerbauer , Edmund Kieselbach , Rainer Kirchmann , Hubert Käppel , Michael Langer , Horst König , Eddy Marron , Michael Sagmeister , Hans-Jürgen Reznicek , Volker Schlott , Manfred Schmitz , Klaus-Hinrich Stahmer , Hans Günter Wagener and Paul Westwood .

Holdings

The AMA Group includes the following editions, labels and publishers:

Awards

The youth album for piano by Manfred Schmitz in 1999, the saxophone from 140 by Matthias Böyers in 2003 and Salentin's trumpet school in 2003 by Hans-Peter Salentin received the German Music Edition Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 20 years of AMA Verlag: An interview with Detlef Kessler

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 45 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 21.2 ″  E