Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag

The Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag is a publisher of classical music, which was founded in 1807 by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig. The publishing house has remained in the hands of the founder family. The publisher's part of a music label for classical music. Except in Germany, the publisher in the music trade is also international markets, including in Europe, Asia or America.

History

On April 20, 1807 Friedrich Hofmeister founded in Leipzig in a music shop and at the same time opened a music - Leihinstitut and a music publishing house with an adjoining book publishing. In the same year Hofmeister founded a Commission department, through which he could represent the publishers at home and abroad as Hug & Co. ( Zurich ), Ricordi & Co. ( Milan ), August Cranz (Hamburg) in Leipzig. A few years came the trade musician portraits and pianos add on their own fabrication.

Knowledge of the publishing activity had acquired as an apprentice with Breitkopf & Härtel and then as an assistant in the Bureau de Musique, which was founded in 1800 by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Kühnel Ambrose Hofmeister. In 1852 he transferred the publishing his sons Adolph Moritz ( 1802-1870 ) and Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict ( 1824-1877 ). Especially Adolph Hofmeister led in the future to continue publishing, while Wilhelm increasingly science devoted, 1863 Leipzig left to accept a professorship of botany in Heidelberg and from 1872 in Tübingen. He became one of the leading scientists of his time.

About the descendants of Wilhelm Hofmeister, business bequeathed to the great-grandson of its founder, Carl Wilhelm Günther (1878 - 1956). Günther in 1952 expropriated by the East German government, fled to the West and began in Frankfurt with the reconstruction of the publisher. At the same time the company in Leipzig as a state-owned enterprise (VEB) Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag persisted.

The West German branch of the Hofmeister publishing was continued in Hofheim am Taunus. 1964, the publishing house of the heirs of Karl Heinz Schwarze, who first led him on in Frankfurt and from 1964 in Hofheim am Taunus. In 1992, the restitution of the former state -Verlag. In 1996, the publishing house returned to its founding place of Leipzig. Since 1998, Stefanie Clement (born blacks) Managing Director of the publishing house.

Publishing program

In the earliest publishing directories are Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Cherubini, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Carl Maria von Weber, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, Chopin, Anton Dvorak and Franz Liszt and Albert Gottlieb Methfessel, Friedrich Kuhlau, Franz Wieck, Carl Czerny, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Ignaz Moscheles, Theodor Kirchner and Heinrich Marschner to find.

First published in Germany, among others here the early works of Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, Friedrich Mendelssohn -Bartholdy, Charles Bériot, Hector Berlioz and later Antonin Dvořáka. From the beginning, a publishing focus - in addition to the edition of the works of the house and chamber music - to publish special editions for the classroom. In 1811 appeared the first guitar school of Johann Traugott Lehmann. Other schools for other instruments followed, and appeared in numerous editions. The violin school of Hubert Ries, first edition in 1841, is still in use today. Numerous study works that were laid in the 19th century are still the standard literature for instrumental training.

In the first decades of the 20th century, the publishing program was expanded to include songs with accompaniment of plucked instruments, as well were added folk dance collections, arrangements for folk instrument orchestra and song collections. The most famous collection is " The Zupfgeigenhansl ", which occupied an important place in the youth movement. In 1920, he alone was printed in an edition of 120,000 copies.

Today, the publishing program includes expenditures for orchestral instruments as well as piano, organ, recorder, guitar, mandolin and accordion and choral literature. Source Critical Initial or reprints stand next to didactically prepared publications for teaching and music for private music-making and concert tours. One focus is the orchestra studies for all instruments, which appear as " Hofmeister Orchestral Studies ". Furthermore, a chronologically ordered collection of orchestral studies for bassoon works of world literature from Bach appeared to the present.

Since 1997, of the "Central German Standing Conference of Baroque music in Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia eV " appears in the Hofmeister Publisher series published by " monuments medium German Baroque music." A similar project has been published since 1999 Edition series " Rheinberger court music ," which make it generally available compositions from the Rheinberger musical life in Urtext editions. We started with works by Christoph Schaffrath.

Hofmeister moved contemporary music by composers such as Harald Banter, Vytautas Barkauskas, Árni Egilsson, Elisenda Fábregas, Christoph Förster, Bernd Franke, Patrick Hagen, Walter Thomas Heyn, C. René Hirschfeld, Stephen King, Ralf Kubicek, Kühnl, Martin furriers, Rainer Lischka, Rafael Lukjanik, Peter Mai, Cecilia McDowall, Kelly -Marie Murphy, Gisbert Näther, Loretta K. notaries ski, Lorenzo Palomo, Kateřina Růžičková, Stefan Schäfer, Kurt Schwaen, Siegfried Thiele, Karl Ottomar Treibmann, Siegfried Tiefensee and Graham Waterhouse.

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