Robert Lienau

Robert Emil Lienau ( born December 28, 1838 in Neustadt in Holstein, † June 20, 1920 ) was a German music publisher.

Life

Robert Emil Lienau was trained as a musician with Ignaz Moscheles and Moritz Hauptmann at Leipzig Conservatory. His father Jacob Lienau was a highly respected businessman, who was appointed in 1878 to the first honorary citizen in Neustadt in Holstein. However, it turned out that Robert Lienau could not exercise the chosen profession of Kapellmeister for health reasons. He came therefore as a volunteer in 1863, founded by Adolf Martin Schlesinger 's music-shop with music publisher in Berlin. A year later Lienau got the opportunity to acquire the company and founded the Robert Lienau Musikverlag. Commercial hardly trained, he cautiously began to expand his publishing. The works of Carl Maria von Weber, he published in new editions and expanded its publishing program through literature for music lessons. The publisher involved in the intellectual debates of his time with the release of the music Echo newspaper (1851-1879), in the Lienau, who counted himself among the Antiwagnerianern even worked as a critic. For the pianist Clara Schumann, he was preparing concerts in Berlin and took up her son Louis in teaching. Clara Schumann hoped rigor of the teaching Lord. It turned out that Ludwig suffered from schizophrenia and had to be admitted to a mental hospital. 1898 Robert Lienau Emil pulled from the company, moved back to Neustadt, leaving the company to his son Robert Henry Lienau. Before his death in 1920 he continued his nephew Cay Diedrich Lienau an executor.