Alexander Jadassohn

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Alexander Jadassohn (born March 31, 1873 in Leipzig ; died December 22, 1948 in New York City ) was a German music publisher and critic.

Life

Alexander Jadassohn was a son of Salomon Jadassohn and his wife Helene, geb. Friedlander. He had eight siblings. Like his brothers Josef (1869–1899) and Heinrich (born September 12, 1870 in Leipzig ), he attended the Royal High School in Leipzig from 1883 to 1889 . His first marriage was to Alice Fliegel ; the marriage resulted in two children. His second marriage was with Dorothea Kiewitt. From 1902 he lived in Berlin and in 1938 he fled to the USA via Switzerland . There he lived on West Eighty-third Street in New York and ran an office for the Harmonie Publishing Company.

Jadassohn founded Harmonie Verlag in 1897, which he later managed as the sole owner. He was also a bookseller and editor of Nord und Süd Verlag and worked with the Silesian publishing company of Salo Schottländer and the Drei Masken Verlag in Munich . Together with Hans Bartsch, Max Dreyfus and Ernst Bloch , he founded the Rondo publishing house in 1922 , which he managed alone from 1935. Jadassohn also managed the modern music publisher Karl Koehler.

Jadassohn's publishers were very successful. In the 1930s, Harmonie-Verlag had over 20 operas, 100 operettas, 200 songs, 100 hits and 100 choral and orchestral works in its program. The Rondo-Verlag represented American and British hits and also marketed stage works from Dreyfus' New York music publishers.

After the takeover of the National Socialists Alexander Jadassohn was due to the Nuremberg Laws pursued. In addition, numerous compositions that he published were now considered "undesirable" works of art. Sheet music that he had stored in Leipzig was confiscated and he was not allowed to hand the publishers over to his wife or stepson Werner Kiewitt. Parts of his publishing houses were "Aryanized" , the rest in 1934 as "non- Aryan" removed from the address book of the German book trade. In 1935 he was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer and in 1937 he was banned from working as a publisher, although he was not officially excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer at that time . Before Jadassohn fled to New York with his wife and stepson, where he met his son Kurt Jadassohn again, he handed his Berlin music publishers over to the care of his book reviser Martin Klinger and his employee Wenzel Kohlert. Klinger was later deported , and in 1939 Kohlert acted as the publishers' liquidator. However, the dissolution of the Rondo Verlag was reversed in 1940. Together with the Harmonie Verlag, it passed into the possession of Rudolf Eichmann († 1966), against whom Jadassohn and his heirs later litigated.

literature

  • Sophie Fetthauer, music publishers in the “Third Reich” and in exile , (= music in the “Third Reich” and in exile, vol. 10, Hanns-Werner Heister, Peter Petersen (ed.)), Phil. Diss. University of Hamburg 2002, Hamburg 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
  2. ↑ http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00001066?wcmsID=0003&XSL.lexmlayout.SESSION=lexmperson_data
  3. ↑ http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00001066
personal data
SURNAME Jadassohn, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1948
Place of death New York City