Apollon music officer
Apollon Musikoffizin OHG is a music publisher specializing in sheet music, books and recordings. The focus of his work is on academic and internship issues, music books and CDs.
history
The Apollon Musikoffizin publishing house was founded in 1999 in Vienna by Hermann Dechant and Margit Haider-Dechant . The trigger was the knowledge gained in the university service that works of musical literature, sheet music and books whose publication would be urgently desired can no longer be taken into account by the established publishing industry if they do not promise high profitability at the same time. This drastic change of direction can be attributed to techniques developed in the last few decades, which today give everyone the opportunity to copy publications (authorized or unauthorized) for their own use, which has drastically reduced sales in music publishing.
The publishing house was opened with the publication of the Singspiel, previously found by Hermann Dechant, in four acts Joke, Cunning and Vengeance by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Philipp Christoph Kayser in the form of a piano reduction. The reconstruction of the four violin concertos in F minor, A major, D major and D minor by JS Bach after the harpsichord concertos BWV 1052-1056 together with Takaya Urakawa, Rector of the University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, followed. These publications were sold worldwide. New editions of historical works followed at regular intervals. Another branch of the publishing house was CD productions in its own music studio as well as the series "Pedagogical Writings", which dealt with the basic social science work From Width to Top. Music school as a socio-political idea. started by Helmut Gugerbauer.
The publishing work received a new focus through the research work of Margit Haider-Dechant. Her book Joseph Woelfl , published in 2011 . Directory of his works. was ordered by libraries around the world. Since then, Woelfl's works have been published continuously in internship editions. A separate commission is preparing a complete academic edition of Woelfl's 635 works in an expected seventy volumes.
Publishing program
It was clear from the start that the founders of the publishing house would have to break new ground in the case of their project. Computer science enables digital notation that has continuously improved in parallel to the work of the publishing house. Another option is digital printing, which has achieved a quality that can be described as document-fair. With its availability for any publication size, it enables a "print on demand" process that saves storage costs. Instead of a permanent staff, the publishing house management can hire specialists for individual projects.
In 2012 the publishing house moved to Bonn. In a much larger property, the Woelflhaus, which also includes a concert hall, a studio, a seminar room and the world's only collection of all of Woelfl's works, the “Joseph-Woelfl-Gesellschaft e. V. "housed. The Woelflhaus has been a partner institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn since 2017 . Around 30 events are currently held there each year. From there, the publisher has been selling its publications in trilingual editions ("European edition") in the new environmentally friendly SRA4 format and presenting them to the public at the events that take place in-house.