Friedrich Hofmeister Music Publishing
The Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag is a publisher of classical music, the 1807 by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig was founded.
The publishing house has remained in the hands of the founder's family to this day. The publisher has a music label for classical music. In addition to Germany, the publishing house is also active internationally in the music trade. a. in Europe, Asia or America.
history
On April 20, 1807, Friedrich Hofmeister founded a music shop in the graphic quarter of Leipzig and at the same time opened a music lending institute and a music publisher with an affiliated book publisher. In the same year Hofmeister founded a commission department through which he was able to represent publishers at home and abroad such as Hug & Co. (Zurich), Ricordi & Co. (Milan), August Cranz (Hamburg) in Leipzig. For a few years, the company began trading in portraits of musicians and pianos from our own production.
Hofmeister had acquired knowledge of publishing activities as an apprentice at Breitkopf & Härtel and then as an assistant in the Bureau de Musique , which was founded in 1800 by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel . In 1852 he transferred the publishing house to his sons Adolph Moritz (1802–1870) and Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict (1824–1877). Above all, Adolph Hofmeister continued to run the publishing house in the future, while Wilhelm devoted himself increasingly to the natural sciences, left Leipzig in 1863 to accept a professorship for botany in Heidelberg and from 1872 in Tübingen . He became one of the leading natural scientists of his time.
Via the descendants of Wilhelm Hofmeister, the business was passed on to the great-grandson of its founder, Carl Wilhelm Günther (1878–1956). Günther was expropriated by the GDR government in 1952 , fled to the West and began to rebuild the publishing house in Frankfurt am Main . At the same time, the company in Leipzig continued to exist as a state-owned company (VEB) Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag.
The West German branch of the Hofmeister Verlag was continued in Hofheim am Taunus . In 1964 the publishing house passed to the heir Karl Heinz Schwarze, who initially ran it in Frankfurt and from 1964 in Hofheim am Taunus. In 1992 the former VEB publishing house was restituted . In 1996 the publishing house returned to its founding place in Leipzig (Graphic Quarter). Stefanie Clement (nee Schwarze) has been managing director of the publishing house since 1998 . In 2016, the company moved from the former Hofmeister house to Melscherstrasse in Leipzig- Stötteritz .
Publishing program
The earliest publishing directories include Ludwig van Beethoven , Luigi Cherubini , Franz Anton Hoffmeister , Carl Maria von Weber , Johann Nepomuk Hummel , John Field , Frédéric Chopin or Franz Liszt as well as Albert Gottlieb Methfessel , Friedrich Kuhlau , Friedrich Wieck , Carl Czerny , Friedrich Kalkbrenner , Ignaz Moscheles , Theodor Kirchner or Heinrich Marschner can be found.
For the first time in Germany appeared here u. a. the early works of Robert Schumann , Clara Wieck- Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Charles-Auguste de Bériot , Hector Berlioz and later Antonín Dvořák . Right from the start, one of the main focuses of the publishing house - in addition to the edition of works of house and chamber music - was to publish special editions for teaching. Johann Traugott Lehmann's first guitar school appeared in 1811 . Other schools for other instruments followed and appeared in numerous editions. Hubert Ries ' violin school , first edition in 1841, is still in use today. Numerous etude works that were published in the 19th century are still part of the standard literature for instrumental training.
In the first decades of the 20th century, the publishing program was expanded to include songs accompanied by plucked instruments , folk dance collections, arrangements for folk instrument orchestras and song collections were also added. The best-known collection is Der Zupfgeigenhansl , which was of great importance in the youth movement . In 1920 alone it was printed in an edition of 120,000 copies.
Today the publishing program includes editions for orchestral instruments as well as for piano, organ, recorder, guitar, mandolin and accordion and choral literature. First prints or new prints that are critical of the source are available alongside didactically prepared publications for teaching and play literature for making music at home and for giving concerts. One focus is the orchestral studies for all instruments that appear as Hofmeister orchestral studies . Furthermore, a chronologically ordered collection of orchestral studies for bassoon from works of world literature from Bach to the present was published.
Since 1997, Hofmeister Verlag has published the Standing Conference on Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. V. published series Monuments of Central German Baroque Music . A similar project is the series Rheinsberger Hofmusik , which has been published since 1999 , which makes compositions from Rheinsberg's musical life generally accessible in Urtext editions. It started with works by Christoph Schaffrath .
Hofmeister publishes contemporary music by composers such as Harald Banter , Vytautas Barkauskas , Árni Egilsson , Elisenda Fábregas , Christoph Förster , Bernd Franke , Patrick Hagen , Timo Jouko Herrmann , Walter Thomas Heyn , C. René Hirschfeld , Stephan König , Ralf Kubicek , Claus Kühnl , Martin Kürschner , Rainer Lischka , Rafael Lukjanik , Peter Mai , Cecilia McDowall , Kelly-Marie Murphy , Gisbert Näther , Loretta K. Notareschi , Lorenzo Palomo , Hannes Pohlit , Kateřina Růžičková , Stefan Schäfer , Kurt Schwaen , Siegfried Thiele , Karl Ottomar Treibmann , Siegfried Tiefensee and Graham Waterhouse .
literature
- Anita Punkt: The Friedrich Hofmeister Music Publishing House. His profile in the past and present . dissertation.de, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86624-304-0 ( Dissertation.de 1404), (also: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2006).
Web links
- Website of the Friedrich Hofmeister music publisher
- Database of the entries in the monthly reports from 1829–1900
- Facsimile of the monthly reports from 1829–1947
Individual evidence
- ^ Contemporary music . hofmeister-musikverlag.com. 2011. Archived from the original on May 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
