Ernst Eulenburg

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Ernst Emil Alexander Eulenburg (born November 30, 1847 in Berlin ; † September 11, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German music publisher who founded Eulenburg Music Publishing on February 1, 1874 . He was born the son of the Jewish doctor Michael Moritz Eulenburg and his second wife Auguste. His older brother was the doctor and sex researcher Albert Eulenburg . After the grandfather's death, the family converted to the Protestant faith in 1847.

Life

Ernst Eulenburg left grammar school prematurely and studied piano, harmony and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music . After his apprenticeship in Hamburg and work stations in Nuremberg and Vienna, he moved to Leipzig in January 1874 and in February of the same year founded a music shop with an affiliated publishing house and concert management. The publishing breakthrough came with the purchase of pocket score series from the publishers AH Payne (Leipzig) and E. Donajowski (London) in 1892 and 1894: The series Eulenburg's small Partitur-Ausgabe , published since 1894 , became world-famous and is still known today under the Name Eulenburg study scores relocated. Eulenburg's son Kurt (1879–1982) joined the publishing house in 1905, took over the management of the publishing house in 1911 and became the sole owner after the death of his father.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hella Gensbaur:  Eulenburg, Ernst Emil Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 683 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Deutsch-Russisches Zentrum Sachsen eV (Ed.): Journal Juden in Sachsen , Leipzig 2009, pp. 9-10 ( Memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  1866-5853 (PDF file; 332 kB)
  3. ↑ Publishing history ( memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on the Eulenburg website
  4. ↑ Schönzeler, Hans-Hubert: Kurt Eulenburg at 100. Recollections of a Century in Music Publishing. Musical Times, 120, 1979, pp. 127-128.
personal data
SURNAME Eulenburg, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eulenburg, Ernst Emil Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1926
Place of death Leipzig