Nagels publishing house

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Nail Publishing is a music publisher for classical music and is today as imprint for Bärenreiter , Kassel. The best-known series is “ Nagels Musik-Archiv ”.

The music shop founded by Carl Bachmann in Hanover in 1819 with an affiliated lending company, sheet music printing and musical instrument trade was taken over in 1835 by the until then managing director (Georg Wilhelm) Adolph Nagel (1800–1873) as "Court music shop Adolph Nagel".

The music shop and publishing house were initially continued by his son Theodor Georg Nagel (1836–1888). His children, Adolf and Elsbeth Nagel, sold the music shop and large parts of the publishing business, but kept the publishing activities to a lesser extent, such as the edition of the chorale book of the Hanoverian regional church in 1939 .

The music store passed through different hands from 1898/1899 and was bought in 1913 by the music dealer Alfred Grensser (1884–1950). In 1927 he began publishing with Nagel's music archive (Adolph Nagel publishing house). He put the series in the service of the youth movement and made a special contribution to the revival of recorder music . For the game editions from the 16th to 19th centuries he won well-known musicologists such as Hans-Joachim Moser and Friedrich Blume as publishers.

In 1941, after the deaths of Adolf and Elsbeth Nagels, the publishing house Adolph Nagel was reunited with Nagels publishing house. After the complete destruction of the company in 1943, Grensser moved to Celle in 1944, where after his death in 1950 the widow Ernestine Grensser managed the business until the publishing house was taken over by Bärenreiter-Verlag in 1952.

The profile of the publisher and the Nagels Musik-Archiv series were retained, and in the 1950s a new field of activity was added at times with literature for male choirs . Today mainly chamber music by Lorenzo Allegri , Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach , Luigi Boccherini , Christoph Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann is available.

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