Hans Heinsheimer

Hans W. (Walter ) Heinsheimer ( born September 25, 1900 in Karlsruhe, † 12 October 1993 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American music publisher, author and journalist.

Life

After studying law and an unpaid internship he took over 23 years, the stage department at Universal Edition in Vienna. He campaigned for Alban Berg and Janáček and wrote many articles for the music magazine " dawn ", also on topics of the music industry and the sociology of music. Heinsheimer, in 1938 at the time of Austria's annexation to the Third Reich was staying for professional reasons in New York, did not return to Austria. He worked in the U.S. for major music publisher Boosey & Hawkes, now published in the proceedings of the 1940 emigrated composer Béla Bartók. Heinsheimer supported the destitute Bartók, the health it went progressively worse due to his leukemia. From 1957 headed Heinsheimer the time probably the greatest American music publisher Schirmer. From 1972, he was its vice-president.

Heinsheimer wrote " most beautiful greetings to Aida " (1968), an entertaining music publishers biography. The personal items of music encyclopedia The music in past and present ( MGG, 1st Edition, Bd.16 ) he wrote himself as a retiree, he expanded his journalistic activities considerably and composed especially for the arts section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ ).

• Menagerie in F Sharp, New York, 1947.
• Fanfare for Two Pigeons, New York in 1952, both German ( in summary processing of Willi Reich ) as Menagerie in F Sharp Major, Zurich and Stuttgart in 1953.
• Best Regards to Aida, New York 1968, German as most beautiful greetings to Aida, Munich 1969.