M. Oelsner
The music store M. Oelsner in Leipzig is one of the oldest German sheet music stores; it was founded in 1860 as an antiquarian bookshop .
history
The bookseller Karl Gustav Stangel opened an antiquarian bookstore on February 21, 1860 in the Kramerhaus, the seat of the Leipzig Kramerinnung, at Neumarkt 31 (entrance Kupfergasse 11). Landelin Kaeseberg became the owner of the bookstore on October 1, 1876, and the bookseller Maximilian Oelsner (1859–1912) became co-owner on November 1, 1879. On July 1, 1880, Maximilian Oelsner took over the business completely, turned it into a bookstore and renamed it M. Oelsner in 1881 . In 1884, with the opening of the New Gewandhaus , Oelsner added a music department and a music antiquarian to his business .
After the Kramerinnung was dissolved in 1887, the house became the property of the city and was demolished in 1899 in favor of the municipal department store . Maximilian Oelsner moved into the Neumarkt 18 building (later renumbered 36) on September 30, 1880, diagonally across the street. Because of the new construction of the Theodor Althoff department store , the business had to be relocated again, on September 30, 1912 the company moved to Reichsstrasse 16. After Maximilian Oelsner's death, his son, the business graduate Curt Oelsner, became the owner on March 5, 1912. On April 1, 1915, he moved the company's headquarters back to Neumarkt 21–27 in the newly built Dresdner Hof exhibition center . Curt Oelsner's widow, the painter Johanna Oelsner, continued the business on June 18, 1937 after the death of her husband. On July 1, 1969, she handed over the company - which was privately owned throughout the GDR - to her grandson, the musicologist Michael Rosenthal (* 1941). On April 12, 1976, Rosenthal moved the music shop to Schillerstraße 3, and on October 30, 1998, they moved into a larger shop at Schillerstraße 5.
Many well-known musicians were or are customers of the music store, e.g. B. Max Reger , Arthur Nikisch , Karl Straube , Yehudi Menuhin , Lucia Popp , Edda Moser , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Peter Schreier , Kurt Masur or Riccardo Chailly . In 1975, after the ban on Klaus Renft Combo, temporarily was even Klaus Renft behind the counter. M. Oelsner is one of only very few music stores in Germany that make the majority of its sales with sheet music, in Saxony it is the only one of its kind.
The owner of M. Oelsner, Michael Rosenthal, is a member of the advisory board for the German Music Archive of the German National Library, and he is also a member of the board of directors of the Neue Bachgesellschaft .
range
- Notes of all kinds
- Music literature
- Concert and theater tickets for all genres
- Music antiquarian
- Classic CDs
- Small instruments, strings, music stands
literature
- Michael Rosenthal: M. Oelsner, Leipzig. On the history of a music store. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1985.
- Ronald Pschierer: Business with history. Traditional retail company in West Saxony. Published by Handelsverband Sachsen e. V., Leipziger Messe-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-9806175-8-0 , p. 79.
- Tobias Wolff: More than a shop. An institution turns 150 - the Leipzig M. Oelsner Musikalienhandlung celebrates its anniversary. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, 20./21. February 2010, ISSN 0232-3222 , p. 12.
- Sabine Näher: Well beyond Leipzig. In: Gewandhaus-Magazin, No. 72 (autumn 2011), ISSN 0945-6023 , p. 68.
Web links
- Website of the music store M. Oelsner Leipzig