Bartholf Senff

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Bartholf Senff around 1850

Bartholf Senff , full name Bartholf Wilhelm Senff also Bartholt (born on September 2, 1815 in Friedrichshall near Coburg ; died on June 25, 1900 in Badenweiler ), was a German music writer and publisher. Before he founded his own publishing house, he worked together with Carl Gurckhaus as managing director at the publishing house Fr. Kistner in Leipzig . On his initiative, the magazine Signals was published for the musical world , of which he was editor until his death.

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Senff completed his apprenticeship at Carl Friedrich Kistner's publishing house. In 1842 he founded the Jahrbuch für Musik , which appeared until 1852, and in 1843 the magazine Signals for the Musical World. After the death of Carl Friedrich Kistner, he was employed as managing director for the publishing house from 1845 until his retirement in 1847, which was managed by the brother of the late Joachim Kistner as authorized signatory. In November 1847 he founded his own book and music shop as the Bartholf Senff publishing house and took over the publishing of the works previously published by the Expedition of Signals. Later, after his death, the company was run by his niece Marie Senff and in 1907 it was transferred to Nikolaus Simrock's publishing house . The publishing house existed under this name from November 1847 until the company finally changed on October 1, 1910.

He was known as a publisher of scores for works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Robert Schumann ( e.g. Forest Scenes , op. 82), Johannes Brahms and, in 1884, Carl Reinecke's Concerto for the harp with orchestra accompaniment. op. 182 , which he dedicated to the harpist Edmund Schuëcker . He published several compositions by Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein as well as the comprehensive opera library edited by Richard Kleinmichel . The signals for the musical world were not conceived as a scientific journal, they rather served as entertainment information. There were reports of musical events, articles and correspondence from famous musicians.

Works (selection)

  • Bartholf Senff: Colorful Leipzig. Sketches and genre pictures . With a comment from Bernd Weinkauf . Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-7463-0130-0 (Complete reprint of issues 1–4 of the original edition from 1842/43, Leipzig, Rocca).
  • Signals for the musical world . founded by Bartholf Senff in 1842. ( wikisource - published with No. 1 in 1843 to No. 21/22 1941 in 99 years).
  • Bartholf Senff: Guide through the musical world. Address book, chronicle and statistics of all cities of importance - Leipzig, with a plan of the new city theater . Senff, Leipzig 1868, OCLC 253666438 .
  • Bartholf Senff: The opera library in the publishing house of Bartholf Senff in Leipzig. Bartholf Senff, Leipzig 1898, OCLC 162236460 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

literature

  • Axel Beer, Gunter Hempel:  Bartholf Senff. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Johannes Brahms in correspondence with Breitkopf & Härtel, Bartolf Senff, J. Reiter-Biedermann, CF Peters, EW Fritzsch and Robert Lienau . Publishing house of the German Brahms Society mb H., Berlin 1920 ( archive.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung . 1847, p. 6655 ( digitized in the Google book search - no. 65 here probably a misprint as Barthold Wilhelm Senff).
  2. ^ Esther Ferrier: German transmissions of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia, 1960–1983: Ida and Walther von Wartburg, Benno Geiger, Christa Renate Köhler, Hans Werner Sokop . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014144-2 , p. 859 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - note 35f]).
  3. ↑ History - 1845. kistner-siegel.de, accessed on November 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Bartholf Senff: Founding of a book and music shop and taking over the items that the Literary Museum and F. Expedition of Signals has debited . Leipzig 1847, DNB  1107352967 (business circular ).
  5. ↑ Conversion into a limited liability company based in Berlin. Managing director Richard Chrzescinski, authorized signatory: Wilhelm Graf . Bartholf Senff, Leipzig 1910, DNB  110735286X (business circular ).
  6. ↑ Robert Schumann: Forest Scenes op nine Clavierstücke 82nd . 1850, OCLC 884453706 .
  7. ↑ Axel Beer, Gunter Hempel:  Bartholf Senff. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Senff, Bartholf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senff, Bartholf Wilhelm (full name); Senff, Bartholt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshall near Coburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1900
Place of death Badenweiler