Peter Juergenson

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Peter Jürgenson (painting)
Article about P. Juergenson in the Russian music newspaper ( Russkaja musykalnaja gaseta ) No. 15 of April 11, 1904
French-language title page of the piano reduction of the ballet - Feerie " Blaubart " by Pjotr ​​Schenk (1870–1915), choreography by Marius Petipa (1818–1910), published in Moscow in 1896 by P. Jurgensen.

Peter Jürgenson or in Russian form Pjotr ​​Iwanowitsch Jurgenson ( Russian Пётр Иванович Юргенсон , scientific transliteration Pëtr Ivanovič Jurgenson , born 1836 in Reval , died 1904 in Moscow ) was a Russian (Baltic) music publisher. His publisher is known as P. Jurgenson .

biography

Peter Juergenson came from poor circumstances in a Lutheran family. Jürgenson opened his own shop in Moscow in 1861 with the financial support of Nikolai Rubinstein , with whom he maintained friendly relations until the end of his life. Jürgenson built his music publisher with Russian masterpieces into one of the largest companies in the industry. At the end of the 19th century, Jürgenson was the largest music publisher in the entire Russian Empire . He opened a branch in Leipzig , then in other European cities.

In 1863–1873 he published the first coveted editions of the piano compositions by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin . It was the first Russian music publisher to publish the main works of German classical music and those of Russian debutants like Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), who remained loyal to him throughout his life. The success of his company was based on the output of popular classical music, which allowed him to publish the less profitable works of classical music and to bring lesser-known talent to the market. He is famous for being the editor of the most important works by Tchaikovsky, with whom he was in close contact. Tchaikovsky helped to correct the work of the composer Dimitri Bortniansky (1751-1825) and to publish it. In addition to the works of the Russian composers of the time, such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Glinka and Scriabin, Juergenson published the piano works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann and Wagner operas. The publisher's catalogs appeared under the title catalog isdani P. Jurgensona . Jürgenson worked closely with the Russian Music Society from 1862, of which he had been a member of the board since 1875.

Jürgenson won a legal battle against the Orthodox Church, which from then on allowed the printing of spiritual works elsewhere . Tchaikovsky wrote about this to Frau von Meck : "This morning I found a telegram from Jurgenson on my table, in which he informed me that he had won the trial against the director of the court orchestra Bachmetew [...]"

After his death the company was passed on to his children Boris, Grigori and Alexandra. The works were published on commission by the Robert Forberg publishing house. In 1882, Jürgenson founded a branch with Robert Forberg in Leipzig, which was taken over by Forberg at the beginning of the 20th century. In the period that followed, the Leipzig branch provided significant impetus for the Western European reception of many works by Russian composers. In France and Belgium the publishing house distributed its publications through A. Noël (Paris), in Poland through G. Sennewald (Warsaw). The company was nationalized in Bolshevik Russia. The publishing house was converted into a new company in 1918. Initially, the editions appeared in the music sector of the State Publishing House, 1930 in the State Music Publishing House (Musgis / Музгиз / Muzgiz), 1963 in the Music Publishing House (Musyka / Музыка / Muzyka).

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A new publishing house was founded in 2004 under the name Musikverlag P. Jurgenson.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. the foreword to the new edition by Marika C. Kuzma (Dmitry Bortniansky: 35 sacred concerts for choir, edited by Marika C. Kuzma. Carus Verlag, 2016).
  2. ↑ Каталог изданий П. Юргенсона - Catalog complet des éditions P. Jurgenson, éditeur à Moscou / Catalog 'izdanij P. Jurgensona v Moskve; see. DNB ; Extract ; 1992 etc.
  3. ↑ Karsten Blüthgen in a CD review on Hänssler 93-317 (available online on March 8, 2019)
  4. ↑ Tchaikovsky's letter to NF von Meck dated June 13, 1879, quoted from: Modest Tschaikowsky : Das Leben Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky's . P. Jurgenson, Moscow-Leipzig 1901, p. 49.
  5. ↑ DNB
  6. ↑ Leipzig, later Bonn or Bad Godesberg, cf. musikdrucke.htwk-leipzig.de
  7. ↑ cf. Rob. Forberg Musikverlag - ricordi.com
  8. ↑ DNB

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SURNAME Juergenson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юргенсон, Пётр Иванович (Russian); Jurgenson, Pyotr Ivanovich; Jurgenson, Pëtr Ivanovič; Jurgenson, Pyotr Ivanovich; Jurgenson, Peter; Juergenson, Peter; Juergenson, Peeter Johann; Jurgenson, Peeter Johann; Juergenson, Peeter Johann; Jurgenson, Peeter Johann; Jurgenson, Pyotr Ivanovits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH 1904
Place of death Moscow