Johann Carl Gombart

Johann Carl Gombart (born April 4, 1752 in Braunfels , † January 9, 1816 in Augsburg ) was a German music publisher and flautist.

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Johann Carl Gombart was Princely Solms-Braunfelsscher Commissioner - a title that he received for life - and engraver . From 1773 the Princely House enabled him to do a commercial training in Italy. In Basel , where he had worked as a flautist in the municipal orchestra between 1782 and 1792, he received training as a music engraver from Bartolomäus Hübner from Augsburg. He published his first musical works in Basel, including compositions by Graf Friedrich Hartmann , Tebaldo Monzani (1762–1839) and Johann Georg Distler . In 1794 he moved to Augsburg, the hometown of his wife, who belonged to the local patriciate. Gombart received citizenship and permission to operate a note engraving and a publishing house, which found its first home in the former Welser bank .

From 1794 onwards, Gombart published numerous first or early prints of the works of Joseph and Michael Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . From 1802 to 1811 Gombart published seven original editions of works by Carl Maria von Weber . Most of the publishing program, which was primarily aimed at the broadest possible section of the population, was provided by composers such as Franz Christoph Neubauer , Johannes Amon , Adalbert Gyrowetz , Johann Abraham Sixt or Joseph von Eybler . Thanks to his artistic talent and his economic and entrepreneurial skills, Gombart attaches particular importance to the history of German music publishing.

After his death, his two sons Carl and Wilhelm initially continued the publishing business until Wilhelm Gombart took over sole management of the publishing house in 1825. In 1831 he received permission to set up a lithographic institute, and since then there has been a consistent change in sheet music production from costly sheet music engraving to cheaper lithography , with which the father had already made his first experiences in the early days of the company. In 1836 Wilhelm Gombart ended his music publishing activities and continued trading until 1840.

Between 1794 and 1836 the family business produced around 1000 publishing products.

literature

Hans Rheinfurth: Musikverlag Gombart, Basel, Augsburg (1789–1836), with a contribution: History of the Gombart family by Monika Groening, Tutzing: Schneider 1999.

Individual evidence

Verlag Gombart (in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon)