Edition Peters
Edition Peters today is the common name of the CF Peters Musikverlag, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main.
History of the publishing
The composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Kühnel Ambrose had founded the music publishing as Hoffmeister & Kühnel, Bureau de Musique in 1800 in Leipzig. In 1814 he went into the possession of the bookseller Carl Friedrich Peters and now bears his name in the form CF Peters.
In the 20th century the owners family Hinrichsen was expropriated twice: in 1939 by the Nazi government and upon its return in 1945 for a second time in 1950 by the SED. Then, the publishing house was relocated to Frankfurt ( Main), however, continued to exist also in Leipzig as VEB Edition Peters.
Finally, in 1993, the family got back Hinrichsen also the VEB.
Edition Peters goes back to a reasonable number of central issues in 1867, which already has the customary today characteristic Cover design.
One focus of the publisher is the so-called Edition Urtext editions.
Side in the narrow sense "classical" composers works of many contemporary composers to be laid, as recently also compositions by Mark Andre and Philippe Boesman. Since 2007, the publisher advertises with the slogan " Contemporary since 1800 ".
2007 by the then managing director Carl Grouwet a new series with younger composers under the name " New Generation Peters " was founded, including Mark Mobius, Robin Hoffmann, Minas Borboudakis and Alexander Muno.
For CF Peters Musikverlag also includes Henry Litolff 's Verlag ( Collection Litolff, since 1940), Schwann Edition ( since 1974) and CF Kahnt music publisher ( since 1989).
In August 2010, finally closed the Peters Edition Ltd. London, the C. F. Peters Corporation New York, the C. F. Peters Musikverlag Frankfurt / Main and Leipzig companies for the Edition Peters Edition Peters Group together.
The German headquarters of the publisher will be mid-2014 from Frankfurt again relocated to Leipzig, where the publisher was once founded.
The archives of the publisher is now largely in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig. It forms there the stock 21070 CF Peters, Leipzig, and among other things includes letter copy books and incoming letters and correspondence files with composers and business partners at home and abroad from 1800, print and plate directories, sales books as well as music from the autograph manuscript to print. The portfolio also includes archival of 1917 acquired publishing Rieter - Biedermann. Correspondences include available with Hermann Abendroth, Guido Adler, Wilhelm Altmann, Otto Barblan, Anton and Ida Beer Walbrunn, Heinrich Besseler, Friedrich Blume, Fritz von Bose, Renzo Bossi, Gustav Brecher, Ferruccio Busoni, Ernst Cahnbley, Carl Czerny, Ferdinand David, Walther Davisson, Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, Otto Erich German, Alfred Dörffel, Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, Alfred Einstein, Carl Flesch, Martin Alfred Frey, Alice and Max Friedlaender, Wilhelm Furtwängler, George Göhler, Hermann Grabner, Karl Grunsky, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Griitzmacher, Willibald Gurlitt, Johan Halvorsen, Charles Hasse, Moritz Hauptmann, Sigmund von Haus Egger, Johann Simon Hermstedt, Franz Hessel, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fritz Jöde, Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, Sigfrid Karg- Elert, Hermann Keller, Gerhard von Keussler, August Alexander Klengel, Julius Klengel, Paul Klengel, Ernst Lothar von Knorr, Elise and Gustav Friedrich Kogel, Egon Kornauth, Hermann Kretzschmar, George Richard Kruse, Ferdinand Küchler, Ludwig Landshoff, Franz Seraphin Lauska, Hugo corpse kick, Erwin Lendvai, Peter Joseph of Lindpaintner Eusebius Mandyczewski, Henri Marteau, Carl Adolf and Franziska Martienssen, Emil Mattiesen, Hans Joachim Moser, Moritz Moszkowski, Felix Mottl, Hans Georg Naegeli, Johann Friedrich Naue, Carl Nielsen, Walter Niemann, Siegfried Ochs, Helmuth Osthoff, Max von Pauer, Hans Pfitzner, Peter Raabe, Joseph Joachim Raff, Günther Ramin, Louis Rée, Carl Reinecke, Carl Gottlieb Reißiger, Hugo Riemann, Ferdinand Ries, Gustav Roessler, Hermann Roth, Adolf Ruthardt, Adolf Sandberger, Emil von Sauer, Paul Schaefer, Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Philipp Scharwenka, Arnold Schering, Ludwig Schiedermair, Eugene Schmitz, Friedrich Schneider, Max Schneider, Hans Schnoor, Gustav Schreck, Clara Schumann, Georg Schumann, Georg Schünemann, Rudolf Schwartz, Max Seiffert, Bernhard Sekles, Arthur Seybold, Christian August Sinding Hans Sitt, Friedrich Julius Smend, Kurt Soldan, Louis Spohr, Fritz Stein, Hermann Stephani, Karl Straube, Richard Strauss, Max Unger, Felix Edler von Weingartner, Wilhelm Weismann, Hermann Hans Wetzler, Kurt Freiherr von Wolfurt, Felix Woyrsch, Hermann Zilcher Margherita and Elsa Baroness von Zschinsky - Troxler.