Max Brockhaus

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Max Brockhaus (born April 13, 1867 , † March 9, 1957 in Lörrach ) was a German music publisher . He was the founder and owner of Max Brockhaus Musikverlag in Leipzig.

Life

He was the great-grandson of the book publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823) and was related to this family of musicians through the wife of his great-uncle Hermann (1806–1877), Ottilie Wilhelmine Brockhaus (1811–1883), Richard Wagner's sister . Rudolf Brockhaus was his father. Since his older brother Rudolf Brockhaus the Younger had joined his father's book publisher, Max Brockhaus chose a career as a music publisher. Therefore, he went to Leipzig to do an apprenticeship with the book and music dealer Ludwig Staackmann and in the family business FA Brockhaus . He then completed his practical apprenticeship in Zurich, Berlin, Brussels and, finally, in London.

On May 1, 1893, he founded the music publishing house named after him in Leipzig. In addition, he took over the catalog from Hermann Haessel (Leipzig), Eduard Wedl (Vienna) and part of the catalog from Joseph Roth (Stuttgart). The company's headquarters were initially at the FA Brockhaus office building on Querstraße, and later on Salomonstraße 17.

In addition to his main activity as a publisher, he promoted musical life in Leipzig. That is why he was appointed to the college of the Gewandhaus in November 1906 . Max Brockhaus was chairman of this body from 1929 to 1932. In 1940, Max Brockhaus left the management of the publishing house to his daughter Elisabeth ("Lilli") Gruner, who continued it with her husband Friedrich Gruner. Both of them had to experience the destruction of the publishing house by bomb hits in December 1943.

Max Brockhaus spent the last years of his life in Lörrach. His grave is part of the family grave, which is located in the main cemetery in Baden-Baden .

literature

  • Max Brockhaus 1893-1943. Festschrift. o. O., o. J.
  • Max Brockhaus: From my memories. Typescript in private ownership, 121 pp.
  • Hans-Martin Plesske: Brockhaus, Max. In: DW Krummel (Ed.): The New Grove Handbook in Music. Music Printing and Publishing. P. 188.
  • Curt von Westerhagen: Brockhaus, Max. In: aMGG. 15, col. 1100-1101.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 201.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Brockhaus, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockhaus, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1957
Place of death Loerrach