Jean-Georges Sieber

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Jean-Georges Sieber (born February 2, 1738 in Reiterswiesen near Bad Kissingen , † January 13, 1822 in Paris ), French musician, composer and music publisher of German origin.

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According to François-Joseph Fétis , Sieber came to Paris in 1758, where he found employment as a horn player in the orchestra of the Société royale de musique . He was also a member of the Concert spirituel orchestra . During this time he taught the harp at Penthemont Abbey , where children from the upper classes of Paris lived as pensioners. In 1772 the Mercure de France mentioned the performance of the opera "Deucalion et Pirrha" by Sieber.

After he had married the engraver Marie-Julie Regnault in 1770, Sieber was first mentioned as a publisher in 1771. The first catalog from 1771, comprising 30 publisher issues, contains mainly works by German composers such as Johann Christian Bach , Dittersdorf , Anton Fils , Carl Stamitz , Friedrich Schwindel , Ernst Eichner , Johann Baptist Vanhal and Joseph Haydn .

Over the years, Sieber has published more than 50 symphonies by Haydn and numerous chamber music works. Mozart's Paris Symphony was published before 1783, and in 1781 the first edition of the Piano Sonatas with Violin KV 301–306. Mozart's father wrote to Breitkopf & Härtel about this : “ The six sonatas dedicated to the Electress of Palatinate Bavaria were published by Mr. Sieber in Paris. He took it over from my son in Paris for 15 Louis neuf, 30 copies and free dedication ”. In 1801 a pasticcio was published with excerpts from the Magic Flute.

By his death in 1822, Sieber published more than 2000 works, making him one of the leading music publishers in France. Most of the works were by German composers, mainly from the Mannheim School , but numerous Italians also belonged to the publishing program, such as Felice Giardini , Luigi Boccherini , Giovanni Battista Viotti , Carlo Tessarini , Gaetano Pugnani , Giovanni Punto or Federigo Fiorillo . A network of offices that he operated in major European cities, including Saint Petersburg, but also in New Orleans, contributed to Sieber's business success. After Sieber's death, his widow continued to run the publishing house for two years.

The son Georges-Julien Sieber (1775–1847) studied composition with Henri-Montan Berton and worked in the publishing house from 1795 before founding his own publishing house in 1799. He has published numerous piano works by Muzio Clementi , Dussek and Daniel Steibelt , among others . Georges-Julien merged his publishing house in 1824 with his parents' business. From 1834 Adrien Sieber took over the management of the publishing house.

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  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1865)
  2. ^ Hermann Abert: WA Mozart. Revised and expanded edition of Otto Jahn's Mozart p. 515
  3. ↑ http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Sieber/168177
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Jean-Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieber, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music publisher of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Reiterswiesen , Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1822
Place of death Paris