Hermann Härtel (publisher)

Hermann Härtel

Hermann Härtel (born April 27, 1803 in Leipzig ; † August 4, 1875 there ) was a German music publisher . He was co-owner and director of the Leipzig publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel .

Life

Hermann Härtel was the eldest son of the Leipzig music publisher Gottfried Christoph Härtel (1763-1827) and his wife Amalie Eleonore nee Klötzer (1781-1811). His father introduced him to aspects of art history at an early stage . From 1819 he studied law in Leipzig and Göttingen . In 1828 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD .

The Roman House in Leipzig (around 1850)

After that he devoted himself intensively to art and made from 1829 to 1830 with his friend Karl August Hase (1800-1890), his later brother-a trip to Italy , where he is particularly in Rome of the local German artist group led by Joseph Anton Koch (1768 –1839) followed. He met Bonaventura Genelli (1798–1868) and befriended Friedrich Preller the Elder (1804–1878). With them and the young architect Woldemar Hermann (1807–1878), plans were forged for a villa in Leipzig based on the model of the Roman Villa Farnesina . Its implementation was also tackled after his return to Leipzig, and the Roman House in Leipzig was built from 1832 to 1834 . Härtel thus gave the first impetus for a more beautiful construction method in Leipzig. The house became an artistic meeting place for the city.

In 1835, his family urged Hermann Härtel to join the management of the publishing house, which his younger brother Raimund Härtel (1810–1888) had managed alone since 1832. The publishing house soon represented the greatest composers of their time, including Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Richard Wagner (1813–1883 ) and Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). After 1850, the composers' complete editions began, opened in 1851 with Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). At Hermann Härtel's death, the catalog of the musical publishing house comprised 15,000 numbers and spanned the entire field of music.

In addition to music, a major line of business was book publishing with works on music theory and music history, including the Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung . After all, in 1869 the company employed seven times as many book and note printers. At the time of the move in 1867 from the Golden Bear in the city center to Talstrasse in the Graphic Quarter, the total number of employees was around 400.

Hermann Härtel was also active outside the publishing house in many ways. From 1834 he was a member of the board of directors of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . He was co-founder and on the board of directors of the Leipziger Kunstverein and member of the city council. From 1852 he was secretary of the Leipzig-based association of German music dealers founded in 1929 .

family

Härtel married Louise Baumeister in 1836 (* 1811 in Hamburg ; † January 5, 1871 in Leipzig), the daughter of a wealthy Hamburg merchant. The couple had four daughters:

Antonie, married. Kohlschütter (born November 21, 1837 in Leipzig, † beginning of February 1874 in Halle an der Saale), married the physician Ernst Kohlschütter (1837-1905) in Leipzig on February 23, 1873 .
Anna, married Volkmann (born September 5, 1840 in Leipzig, † November 27, 1889 ibid), married the pastor Oskar Volkmann (1826–1878) in Leipzig on April 22, 1861, with whom she lived in Stollberg in the Ore Mountains and after his death moved to Leipzig returned,
Cecilia, married Schöne (born May 10, 1842 Leipzig, † April 26, 1870 Halle an der Saale), married the philologist and later museum director Richard Schöne (1840–1922) in Leipzig on May 6, 1869 ,
Helene, married. Wigand, later beautiful (born June 1, 1844 in Leipzig, † June 26, 1928 in Berlin), married the bookseller Albrecht Wigand (born October 12, 1837 in Leipzig) on May 23, 1864 in Eutritzsch near Leipzig, from whom she later was divorced and on April 15, 1873 in Leipzig married the widowed Richard Schöne.

Honor

In 1879 the street that started from Windmühlenstraße and, after the Roman House was demolished in 1904, was named after him as Härtelstraße.

literature

Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 218 .
Martin Naumann: The Roman House. On the trail of a lost gem. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-936508-33-8

Web links

Härtel, Hermann. In: Leipzig biography. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
Obituary for Hermann Härtel. In: Leipziger Tageblatt of August 10, 1875. Retrieved on April 9, 2017 .

Individual evidence

^ Obituary for Hermann Härtel. In: Leipziger Tageblatt of August 10, 1875. Retrieved on April 9, 2017 .
↑ Breitkopf & Härtel. In: Zeno.org. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
↑ Oscar von Hase: Breitkopf and Härtel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 296-303.
↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 97 .

personal data
SURNAME	Härtel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 1875
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Obituary for Hermann Härtel. In: Leipziger Tageblatt of August 10, 1875. Retrieved on April 9, 2017 .

[2] Breitkopf & Härtel. In: Zeno.org. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .

[3] Oscar von Hase: Breitkopf and Härtel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 296-303.

[4] Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 97 .