Max Abraham (publisher)

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Left Max Abraham, in the foreground Nina and Edvard Grieg
Memorial plaque to Max Abraham, Leipzig, Talstrasse 10
Commemorative plaque to Edvard Grieg on Abraham's house and office
Restitution stone for Max Abraham and relatives in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Max Abraham (born June 2, 1831 in Danzig ; † December 8, 1900 in Leipzig ) was a German music publisher .

Life

Max Abraham attended the municipal high school in Gdansk. He studied music in his hometown Gdansk and economics in London. He studied law in Heidelberg , Bonn and Berlin . he passed his exams in Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. doctorate without having to do a written dissertation. During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1851 . In 1863 Abraham became a partner in the music publisher CF Peters in Leipzig, which had been run by Julius Friedländer since 1860 ; he took over the publishing house in 1880 as sole owner. He started the Edition Peters sheet music series . His successor was his nephew Henri Hinrichsen , whom he hired in 1891 and made a partner in 1894.

In 1873 Abraham bought a vacant lot in Leipziger Talstrasse and had the architect Otto Brückwald build a residential and commercial building on it. In 1874 this became the headquarters of the music publisher CF Peters. Today there is an Edvard Grieg memorial in this house . The Norwegian composer was a friend of the publisher and often a guest in his house.

In 1893 Max Abraham donated the Peters Music Library in Leipzig, which opened on January 2, 1894. It is considered the first of its kind in Germany and was the stimulus for Wilhelm Altmann to create an even more comprehensive collection in which not only contemporary music but all national and, if possible, works by foreign composers would be collected.

In 1900 he ended his life by suicide.

Commemoration

Abrahamstrasse in the Leipzig district of Neulindenau has been remembering him since 1910 (with an interruption from 1935 to 1945) .

The tomb of the Abraham / Hinrichsen family on the Leipzig southern cemetery was leveled in the 1980s; since 1992 a memorial has been commemorating the former location.

literature

  • Max Abraham's letters to Edvard Grieg (= Edvard Grieg: Correspondence , Vol. 1). Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd, revised, newly annotated edition 2005, ISBN 3-937909-55-9 .
  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen: Music Publishing and Patronage - CF Peters: 1800 to the Holocaust. Edition Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-9536112-0-5 .
  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen, Norbert Molkenbur: CF Peters - a German music publisher in Leipzig's cultural life. On the work of Max Abraham and Henri Hinrichsen. In: Ephraim Carlebach Foundation (ed.): Judaica Lipsiensia. On the history of the Jews in Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1994. pp. 92-109.
  • Wilhelm Altmann: The future "German Music Collection" at the Royal Library . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 23 (1906), no. 2, p. 67.
  • Georg von Dadelsen:  Abraham, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 22 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 2–3.

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personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1900
Place of death Leipzig