Hans Heinsheimer

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Hans W. (Walter) Heinsheimer (born September 25, 1900 in Karlsruhe ; died October 12, 1993 in New York City ) was a German-American music publisher , author and journalist .

Life

Hans Heinsheimer came from a German academic family in Baden. His father Friedrich Heinsheimer (1873–1935) was a doctor, his mother Emma Willstätter (1880–1957) was persecuted as a Jew and fled with him to New York City. His uncle Karl Heinsheimer and his grandfather Max Heinsheimer were Heidelberg law professors. His younger brother Rudolf Heinsheimer also emigrated and became a ministerial official in the construction of Israel.

After studying law and doing an unpaid internship, Hans Heinsheimer took over the stage department at Universal Edition in Vienna at the age of 23 . He stood up for Alban Berg and Leoš Janáček and wrote many articles for the music magazine “ Anbruch ”, also on topics related to the music business and music sociology. Heinsheimer, who was in New York for professional reasons when Austria was annexed to the Third Reich in 1938 , did not return to Austria. He worked in the USA for the major music publisher Boosey & Hawkes , which now publishes the works of the composer Béla Bartók , who emigrated in 1940 . Heinsheimer supported the destitute Bartók, whose health was getting worse and worse because of his leukemia. From 1957, Heinsheimer headed what was then probably the largest American music publisher, Schirmer . From 1972 he was its vice-president.

Heinsheimer wrote “Schönste Grüße an Aida ” (1968), an entertaining biography of a music publisher. He wrote the personal article of the music lexicon The Music in Past and Present (MGG, 1st edition, Vol. 16). As a retiree, he expanded his journalistic activities considerably and wrote in particular for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Menagerie in F Sharp , New York 1947.
  • Fanfare for two Pigeons , New York 1952, both in German (in a comprehensive arrangement by Willi Reich ) as menagerie in F sharp major , Zurich and Stuttgart 1953.
  • Best Regards to Aida , New York 1968, German as Schönste Grüße an Aida , Munich 1969.

literature

  • Heinsheimer, Hans Walter , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 481

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personal data
SURNAME Heinsheimer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinsheimer, Hans W. (Walter)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music publisher, author, and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1993
Place of death new York