Favorite Record

Advertisement with reference to 20,000 music tracks and the new Favorite speaking device , around 1905

"Fresh from the egg hatched": In the studio of George crucian designed display for the Vienna branch in the Schönbrunner Straße 12 , input Franzstraße

Favorite Record (also Favorite Records ) was a record factory.

history

In 1904 the engineer Otto Multhaupt (born February 5, 1871) and the Berlin manufacturer Fritz Kindermann founded Favorite GmbH in Linden (Hanover) . A branch was established in Vienna. In 1912 the company was transformed into Favorite Record AG and taken over by Carl Lindström's group in the following year .

literature

• NN : The new management of Favorite-Record GmbH , in: Phonographische Zeitschrift , Volume 21, No. 2 (1920), p. 46; on the page grammophon-platten.de ; online ( memento of January 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) via the Internet Archive
• Instrument making magazine ; Volume 32 (1911), p. 69
• Hugo Strötbaum :
  • Seventy-eight revolution per minute in the Levant. Discography of Favorite's oriental recordings (English), 4th edition, rev. and enlarged, Utrecht: Strötbaum, 1993 (Dutch)
  • Favorite: 1904-1914. Often times the relaas van de ongrijpbare q series. In: De Weergever , 17e jaargang No. 6 - november-december 1995, pp. 243–265 (Dutch)
  • De Geschiedenis van Favorite: 1904-1914 , deel 2. De opbouw van het catalog number (= facenumber); achtergrondinformatie over de company 'Favorite'. In: De Weergever , 18e jaargang No. 1 - januari-februari 1996, pp. 2–22 (Dutch)
  • De Geschiedenis van Favorite: 1904-1914, deel 3 (slot). Voorlopig overzicht van de opnamesessies van Favorite, 1904-1914 . In: De Weergever , 18e jaargang No. 2 - maart-april 1996, pp. 51-71
  • Favorite revisited. An update (English), text for the 9th Discografentag under the heading Die Lindström-Story , Utrecht, May 2008; downloadable as a PDF document from recordingpioneers.com

See also

• United Record Works Janus-Minerva , competitor in Hanover

Web links

Commons : Favorite-Record  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Martin C. Wolfstein (responsible): favorite-record.com with "[...] information about this label, its history, the production of shellac records, phonographs, gramophones and their manufacture and distribution"
• Favorite record in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pictures on page 78record.de
• The factory of the Favorite Society 1908 on the page grammophon-platten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hugo Strötbaum: Favorite revisited ... (see literature)