Max Hinrichsen

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Max Hinrichsen ( July 6, 1901 in Leipzig - December 17, 1965 in London ) was a German-British music publisher.

Life

Talstrasse 10 in Leipzig , home of Max Hinrichsen and headquarters of Edition Peters

Max Hinrichsen was the second child and eldest son of the music publisher Henri Hinrichsen and his wife Martha geb. Bendix (1879-1941). Named after his great uncle Max Abraham , he had two sisters and four brothers, including Walter Hinrichsen . His paternal ancestors were descended from Ruben Henriques, a Sephardic who came to Glückstadt in 1646 and whose descendants were court agents in Mecklenburg-Schwerin for several generations . His parents and two brothers were victims of the Shoah . Four stumbling blocks in front of the Talstrasse house remind of their fate . 10 in Leipzig.

After graduating from the Nikolaischule in Leipzig, Hinrichsen began extensive training in music publishing in order to be prepared for the takeover of the family business CF Peters . From 1919 on he studied in Berlin , went to Zurich in 1922 and to New York City in the USA in 1924 , where he managed the sales of Edition Peters in the United States. In 1928 he returned to Leipzig and joined the company as an authorized signatory . He was entrusted with the administration of the Peters Music Library and the publication of its yearbook . On his 30th birthday in 1931, he became a partner in the company. Since 1934 he was married to Marie-Luise, b. von Siegroth and Slawikau, a sister of Joachim von Siegroth . The marriage took place against the resistance of both families. The couple had a daughter, Irene (1935-2016).

Under the impression of the increasing persecution of the Jews , Hinrichsen emigrated with his family to Great Britain in November 1937. Here he initially worked as a representative for CF Peters at the British music publisher Novello . In 1938 he founded his own publishing under the company Hinrichsen Edition Ltd. He also ran a concert agency. In 1941 he lost his German citizenship through expatriation and remained stateless until his British naturalization in 1947.

After the end of the war, Hinrichsen expanded the publishing business and founded the London subsidiary of Edition Peters. In doing so, he encountered the problem that Novello claimed to have transferred the publishing rights to the owners of CF Peters as enemy aliens in Great Britain. Christian Sindings Frühlingrauschen , a bestseller in the publishing program, was the reason for a sample lawsuit for his publishing rights between Max Hinrichsen and Novello. The British High Court of Justice ruled in Novello and Company Limited v. Hinrichsen Edition Limited and Another that Max Hinrichsen was entitled to the publishing rights. Hinrichsen made particular merits by publishing early English composers and contemporary music.

He died of a heart attack at the age of 64. In 1949 Hinrichsen divorced his wife Marie-Luise and in 1956 married the American Carla, b. Eddy (1922-2005). She inherited the London company and in turn bequeathed it to the Hinrichsen Foundation, which she founded in her will . The Hinrichsen Foundation is the majority owner of the Edition Peters Group, which was reunited in 2010 . Max Hinrichsen's daughter Irene had left the company after a falling out between her and Carla immediately after her father's death. She later published a lot on the company and family history and, after the fall of the Wall in 1989, promoted the memory of the Hinrichsens in Leipzig.

Awards

Works

  • (Ed.) Hinrichsen's Musical Yearbook. 11 volumes, London 1944–1961

literature

  • Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen: Five Hundred Years to Auschwitz: A Family Odyssey from the Inquisition to the Present. Bertrams 2008, ISBN 0953611213
  • Hinrichsen, Max , in: Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne Kennedy (eds.): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 5th Edition, Xford University Press 2013 online, ISBN 9780191727184 , accessed December 10, 2019 from oxfordreference.com
  • Sophie Fetthauer: Max Hinrichsen In: Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (ed.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era . Hamburg: University of Hamburg 2007 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​Leipzig , accessed on December 9, 2019
  2. ^ Stations according to Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen (Lit), p. 109
  3. ↑ Lawford-Hinrichsen (Lit), p. 125
  4. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Music publishers in the "Third Reich" and in exile. (= Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile 10), Hamburg: von Bockel 2004, plus diss. Phil. Hamburg 2002 (2nd edition 2007), p. 315
  5. ↑ Carla Hinrichsen , obituary in The Independent dated December 21, 2005, accessed December 10, 2019
  6. ↑ The Hinrichsen Foundation at charitycommission.gov.uk, accessed on 10 December 2019
  7. ↑ Publishing history , accessed December 10, 2019
  8. ^ Obituary for Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen by Christian Wolff , accessed December 10, 2019
  9. ↑ Entry in the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1760-1966)
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichsen, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1965
Place of death London