Estienne Roger

Estienne Roger, on his spending often Étienne Roger (* 1665 or 1666 in Caen, France, † July 7, 1722 in Amsterdam ) was a Franco- Dutch printer and publisher.

Life and work

Roger came from a French Huguenot family. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the family fled to Amsterdam, where Roger learned the printer crafts. In 1691, he married Marie -Suzanne de Magneville (around 1670-1712 ). Until 1696 he worked in the company of his instructor Jean -Louis Delorme, after which he started his own business with his own printshop.

The focus of his publishing work, history books were, grammars, dictionaries and especially music. Between 1696 and 1722 he published over 500 printed music, including works by Albicastro, Albinoni, Bassani, Bonporti, Caldara, Corelli, Pepusch, Scarlatti, Somis, Torelli, Valentini, Veracini and Vivaldi. Part of it was previously already appeared in other publishers (eg Sala in Venice or in Ballard in Paris) and has only been reprinted by Roger, but this was due to the lack of copyright protection then standard practice; Roger himself suffered unauthorized reprints of his expenditure, such as by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam or John Walsh in London. Mortier took from 1708 until his death in 1711, numerous publications Rogers at cheaper prices out.

Rogers editorial care and tasteful design were estimated in all of Europe. Composers such as Vivaldi and Albinoni, the first published their works in their home country and had then met the superior quality of Rogers reprints, offered their new collections from about 1710 Roger equal to the pressure. Relationships with publishers in Rotterdam, Brussels, Liege, Paris, Cologne, Leipzig, Halle, Berlin, Hamburg and London ensured a wide circulation, so that the connection with Roger for the Italian composer also was financially lucrative than selling through local publishers. Rogers ability to achieve the European audience, it is clear to publications such as the laid by him French Inquisition Constantin de Villes Renne in 1715. Translations into English and German published in the same year; Readers in London and Nuremberg have the original publication in order to translate them may have held in their hands within a few weeks.

1716 Rogers married daughter Françoise ( 1694-1723 ) the printer Michel -Charles Le Cène, who was involved in the coming years to the non- musical publications of the company before he founded his own printing press in 1720. Also in 1716, Roger continued his second daughter Jeanne ( 1701-1722 ) bequeathed his successor a; in the remaining six years until his death in its spending under their name published.

Jeanne Roger survived her father by five months. Since they did not feel supported by her sister Françoise enough in the serious illness that led to her early death, she left the company not her and her brother Le Cène, but her employee Gerrit Drinkman. As this also died after a few months, Le Cène could acquire the company. Until 1743 he continued the music publishing work of his father continued with almost 100 new releases and numerous reprints of older works.