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Edition Steingräber is the brand name of the music publisher Steingräber from Offenbach , which was founded on January 1st, 1878 in Hanover by Theodor Leberecht Steingräber . Edition Steingräber dedicated itself from the beginning to school and class music, especially with the "Damm Piano School ". In addition, a repertoire of classical piano works and arrangements of classical music literature was published.
history
prehistory
Steingräber wrote the textbook “Damm Klavierschule ” for his daughters Clara and Mathilde under the pseudonym Gustav Damm . Word got around about the versatility and quality of this piano school, so that Steingräber published a first edition in 1868. Encouraged by the success of the Damm Piano School, Steingräber also turned to the publication of classical piano works and founded the Theodor Steingräber Musikverlag in 1878.
publishing company
Theodor Steingräber Musikverlag was founded in Hanover on January 1st, 1878. In 1890 the music publisher moved to Leipzig , the city of music publishers. In May 1893, Steingräber made his son-in-law, the publishing and bookseller Walter Friedel, husband of Clara Steingräber, a partner. During these years numerous contacts arose with young composers whose works the publisher published. These include the burlesque for piano and orchestra in D minor, composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, as well as the Serenade for strings in E flat major (1893) composed by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari .
Theodor Steingräber died in 1904 and his daughters Clara Friedel, b. Steingräber, and Mathilde Steingräber co-partners of the publishing house. After Walter Friedel's death in November 1916, Georg Heinrich, Clara Friedel's son-in-law, took over the management of the music publisher . During the Second World War , during an air raid on Leipzig in December 1943, the publishing house went up in flames. Almost all of the 4500 or so works were lost. Reconstruction after the war was correspondingly difficult.
With the death of Clara Friedel on January 31, 1953, the publishing house became the property of her granddaughter Hildegard Pilz. In the same year the company was relocated from Leipzig to Frankfurt am Main and finally to Offenbach am Main . Since then, the business premises of the music publisher have been located here. On August 1, 2009, Hildegard Pilz handed the publishing house over to her daughter Florentine Schröder, b. Pilz, who is the fourth generation to own the music publisher.
Since July 1, 2015 sheet music has been distributed by the Frankfurt music wholesale range Grahl & Nicklas, Frankfurt. The rental material for orchestral works is managed by Edition Peters, Leipzig.
Publishing program
School music
Edition Steingräber has specialized in school and class music since its inception. It all started with the Damm Piano School , which Theodor Steingräber wrote for his daughters under the pseudonym Gustav Damm. It was first published in 1868, and by 1914 more than two million copies had appeared in 12 different languages. By the 21st century, the Damm Piano School had hundreds of editions with millions of copies. The Damm Piano School is one of the most popular sheet music for piano students worldwide.
Classical works and publications
Soon after the founding of the publishing house, Theodor Steingräber turned to the publication of classical piano works. By studying sources he developed scientific, well-founded editions with practical game facilities. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven have been edited by musicologists such as Theodor Kullak , Hans Bischoff and Friedrich Stade. All of these editions are still part of Edition Steingräber's repertoire today.
The Swiss music professor, pianist and composer Walter Rehberg has arranged concerts for piano and string orchestra by Jean Philippe Rameau , and he has reworked all of Franz Schubert's piano sonatas , adding to some and adding fingerings .
Steingräber Musikverlag has published works by Henri Marteau , French violinist and composer, and around a hundred arrangements of the classical violin literature. In the person of Walter Friedel, head of the music publishing house from 1893 to 1916, Henri Marteau met a publisher in 1909 who valued Marteau's pedagogical skills so highly that he offered him the contract for this extensive arrangement. This daunting task would extend to the end of his life. One of the most important arrangements was the publication of the six solo sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. His Violin Concerto in C major op.18 was re-orchestrated in 2012 and is available again as a redesigned work version.
Edition Steingräber made contact with young and contemporary composers, whose works they then published. The music of the early 20th century is represented by well-known composers. These include the Symphony for Large Orchestra No. 1, Op. 10 , composed by Eduard Erdmann in 1920 , the Concerto for String Orchestra, Op. 44 (1923) by Rudolf Moser , and the String Quartet No. 1 in E major, Op. 1 (1920) by Hermann Scherchen , as well as the piano quintet in C minor op. 3 (1912) by Max Trapp . The great opera Sakahra in 3 acts by Simon Bucharoff , composed in 1923, was premiered in Frankfurt in 1926.
In addition, the Steingräber edition contains teaching works by piano teachers and music teachers such as Josef Pischna and C. Schütze. The sonatinas by Muzio Clementi were revised by Richard Kleinmichel and Willy Rehberg .
literature
- Annette Oppermann, Musical Classic Editions of the 19th Century. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-27909-4
- The great violinist Henri Marteau (1874-1934): the fate of an artist in Europe. Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2002, ISBN 3-7952-1104-2