Instrument making magazine
The Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau was a specialist journal for musical instrument making that appeared from 1880 to 1943 .
history
In 1879 the twenty-seven-year-old Dutchman Paul de Wit came to Leipzig and began a traineeship with the music publisher and editor of the New Music Journal , Christian Friedrich Kahnt, founded by Robert Schumann in 1834 . He played the cello and viola da gamba himself and had a broad interest in music. De Wit came into extensive contact with the musical life of Leipzig and also with instrument making. He soon noticed the lack of a musical instrument magazine. In 1880 he founded the with Oskar Laffert, who soon withdrewZeitschrift für Instrumentenbau and published it in the publishing house that bore his name. The first 16-page issue was published on October 1st. The subtitle of the magazine was "Central Organ for the interests of the manufacture of musical instruments and the trade, for performing artists and music lovers". The addressees, like the topic of the paper, were therefore broad, which soon led to the company's success. After a few years it became the official organ of numerous professional associations for musical instrument making .
The founder and longtime editor Paul de Wit
The Leipzig publishing office at Thomaskirchhof 16
(today Bosehaus ) with decorative elements from old organ prospects
Initially two issues were published per month, then three from the third year onwards. The volume of the first annual volume was 344 pages, its maximum was reached in 1921/1922 with 1618 pages, but also greatly reduced in times of war and crisis. A print run of 4000 copies was achieved. After frequent changes of address at the beginning of the editorial team - from October 1880 Windmühlenstraße 15, from February 1883 Südplatz 7 and from October 1884 Lampestraße 4 (at the same time de Wits's residential addresses) - offices at Thomaskirchhof 16 (today's Bosehaus ) were moved into in March 1887 . This address was valid for almost 48 years.
Paul de Wit acted as the responsible editor and publisher until his death in 1925. Then his deputy Arno Richter took over the management until 1930, followed by Robert Felsch until 1935. From 1935 the magazine appeared in Breslau , still from the Paul de Wit publishing house , now based in Wroclaw. The main editor was now the musicologist and professor at the Technical University of Wroclaw Hermann Matzke (1890–1976). With six double issues with a total length of 72 pages in the 63rd year of 1942/1943, the magazine apparently ceased its publication due to the war.
, Has been published since 1946 newly founded by Hermann Matzke, in continuation of the Journal of musical instruments in the publishing Franz Schmitt, Siegburg , the instrument magazine .
literature
- 50 years of the magazine for instrument making and publishing house Paul de Wit , magazine for instrument making, 51st year, issue No. 1, 1930, pp. 9-12 ( digitized )
- Enrico Weller: Paul de Wit - founder of the magazine for instrument making and his services to the musical instrument industry . In: Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift 59. 9/10 (2005), 1–6 (digitized part 1 and part 2 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hubert Henkel: The Museum of Music History by Paul de Wit . In Armin Schneiderheinze (Hrsg.): Das Bosehaus am Thomaskirchhof , Edition Peters, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-369-00040-7
- ↑ according to the title pages of the magazine