Schott Music

Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG is a great music and music publishing house and one of the oldest still existing publishers at all. Founder was Bernhard Schott in 1770 at Schott including the entire compositional work of Richard Wagner was edited, whereby the publisher finally reached worldwide recognition. ; as, for example, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The company is located since its founding in Mainz on the Rhine. Schott Music has characteristics of a multimedia international conglomerate of the music industry in recent history.

History

The beginnings

The publisher Schott Music in 1770 by Bernhard Schott ( 1748-1809 ) founded in Mainz under the name B.Schott 's sons, is still housed in a 1792 mansion built in the pond garden, which is now a historical monument. The musician and engraver Bernhard Schott received the 1780 privilegium exclusivum and the predicate Hofmusikstecher. This allowed within the electorate of the works produced by him not nachgestochen or sold. The publisher benefited from the thriving cultural life in Mainz and grew rapidly to become a significant force in the music business. Among other Schott supplied then the rich employed Electoral Court Orchestra and the Orchestra of the young theater with notes.

Unlike other print media Mainz Schott was hardly affected by the Mainz Republic and the years of cisrhenanischen Republic and the associated separation from the original electoral area because musical notes were less language-specific.

Bernhard Schott proved on line technical innovation and used as one of the first to the reproduction process of lithography. This allowed a constant high circulation and soon led to widespread use of high-quality music material. The publishing house has quickly established itself beyond the borders of Germany and the first settlements were founded in 1823 in Antwerp, in Brussels in 1830, and soon after another in London, Vienna, Paris and Leipzig.

Besides the high quality of the notes and the good availability in many European countries, it was primarily the commitment of Contemporary Music, which made ​​him renowned publisher. In addition to works by composers of the Mannheim school (Carl Stamitz, Georg Joseph Vogler ) and virtuoso music society also play operas part of the repertoire. The publication of the piano scores and first editions of Mozart's operas Don Giovanni and The Abduction from the Seraglio among the first highlights. Important late works by Ludwig van Beethoven, including the famous 9th Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and two of the last string quartets led the publisher to a secure future.

Milestone Wagner

At the beginning of the publishing history of the then modern French taste for the publishing program was crucial. So especially composers like Adolphe Adam, Daniel Auber, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini Ignaz Pleyel were published. Only slowly growing interest in domestic composers. With Franz Liszt and Peter Cornelius finally suggests a repertoire change. But only in 1859 continued Franz Schott ( 1811-1874 ), grandson of the founding publisher Bernhard Schott, a new focus on German composers: Working with Richard Wagner and the publication of his great stage works Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal form still an important basis for the publisher and the current stage repertoire in Germany. The collaboration ended because of the financial demands unrealizable Wagner: " In general, a music publisher your needs not deny this can only be a hugely rich banker or a prince who has to have millions ... " (Franz Schott on October 21, 1862 Wagner). Wagner sought then other financial support, which was last granted to him only by Johann Weißheimer II, the wealthy father of his friend Wendelin Weißheimer. It was only after the Bavarian throne exchange took Wagner Ludwig II in an extremely giving variables patrons who freed Wagner forever from his financial problems. 1970 was the publishing house B. Schott 's Söhne a large bronze statue with the inscription " the genius of Richard Wagner dedicated to " set up in front of the bank of the Rhine to Mainz input Rheingold Hall.

The Modern

Due to succession problems - there was no descendants - continued the family Schott 1874 Privy Dr. jur. Ludwig Strecker (1853-1943) as heir. Meanwhile sons Ludwig Strecker (1883-1978) and Willi Strecker (1884-1958) led on the publisher. They were followed by Heinz Schneider -Schott ( 1906-1988 ). The current head of the house - Peter Hanser- Strecker - occurred in 1974 in the management one. He also is the chairman of the board of management Schott Music.

Modernism was reflected first in the Inverlagnahme of works by Igor Stravinsky down, who was a longtime friend of Willi and Ludwig Strecker. The publisher published Feu d' artifice among other things, Scherzo fantastique, the ballet L' oiseau de feu ( The Firebird ), the Violin Concerto, the Symphony in C major and the Symphony in Three Movements.

The resulting compound soon after with Paul Hindemith opened a new era in publishing policy, because for the first time was publishing a " house composers " whose entire work was published by Schott. Also, Carl Orff, the creator of the universally acclaimed Carmina Burana is represented with his oeuvre by Schott. From now on, many other artists familiar to the publisher exclusively to their works, including Wolfgang Fortner, Jean Francaix, Percy Grainger, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hermann Reutter and Michael Tippett.

Contemporary Music

Among the composers there are many long-standing exclusive partner. Hans Werner Henze has already been recorded, with twenty years in 1946 as a composer in the publishing repertoire. Since the 1970s, Krzysztof Penderecki, Aribert Reimann, Volker David Kirchner and György Ligeti publish your creations by Schott. In addition, refer to the published list of international composers such as Toru Takemitsu, Rodion Shchedrin, Peteris Vasks, Henri Dutilleux, Toshio Hosokawa, Ye Xiaogang, Nicholas Lens, Peter Eötvös, Olli Mustonen and Joaquin Rodrigo.

In 2001, Scotland launched a campaign with a number of young composers were added to the publisher. Then, working with Joe Duddel, Kenneth Hesketh, Tatiana Komarova, Benjamin Schweitzer, Jörg Widmann, Moritz Eggert and Czernowin began. Followed in 2003 by Christian Jost, 2005, Thomas Larcher, Elisabeth Naske, Richard Ayres and Huw Watkins and 2006 Fazil Say. In the U.S., by the resident company Schott Music Corp.. new contracts with composers such as Joseph Schwantner and Tobias Picker. Since October 1998, the publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation are supervised by the publisher Schott.

Group parts

The still run as a family publisher is internationally oriented and in addition to its headquarters " Weihergarten " in the founding of the city of Mainz another German company based in Mainz- Hechtsheim. At the counterparties located in Weihergarten subsidiaries include publishers Astoria Verlag, Atlantis music book, Ars Viva, Bund -Verlag, Cranz, Ernst Eulenburg, Fuerstner, Hohner Verlag Panton and Schott Music Enterprise. In addition, here, among others, the company Schott Music & Media ( Media ), Schott Property management ( real estate ) and various companies associated with the foundations and associations established. There is also the publisher's production archive with about 50,000 historic titles.

Self-employed international subsidiaries are located in Hong Kong, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Tokyo and Toronto. 2006, all international companies were uniformly renamed Schott Music.

In New York, the company operates Schott European American Music Distributors LLC, which takes over the distribution of performance material in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for many major European publishers.

A dedicated sales and logistics center, music distribution services GmbH ( mds ), in Mainz- Hechtsheim, in addition to the entire bulkhead program delivers the publications of over 120 other publishers. Approximately 130,000 titles of sheet music, books, audio and electronic media are dispatched from Mainz from around the globe. The modern high bay warehouse is currently home to more than 12 million copies.

With the WEGA Verlag Mainz Schott operates a printing and manufacturing enterprise, the jobs from various publishers around the world takes over.

In other publishers in the industry partly intensive cooperation. So Schott takes sales and marketing and manufacturing generic tasks since 2004 Boosey & Hawkes, and since 2006 for the true founded by Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev Belaieff Musikverlag.

Publishing program

The publishing program is extremely extensive and varied: with notes ( available for purchase and paid rental), total expenditure, scores, choral music, instrumental schools and other educational expenses, Popular Music and books on general music topics and musicological issues. In the Edition Schott Werkausgaben of music from all eras appear for all instruments and ensembles. Schott Music is distinguished mainly by its steady commitment to music education and Contemporary Music. The publisher utilized existing copyrights and regularly new composers.

Schott Music has its own record label, intuition for jazz and world music and WERGO for New Music. The publisher also are seven journals out:

• The orchestra ( Frequency: 11 times per year, circulation: 20,000 )
• Music & Education ( Publication: four times a year, circulation: 7,000 )
• Music in elementary school ( Frequency: four times a year, circulation: 7,000 )
• Music Forum ( Frequency: four times a year, circulation: 4,000 )
• Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ( Frequency: six times per year, circulation: 5,000 )
• Organ - Organ Journal ( Frequency: four times a year, circulation: 4,000 )
• Practice & music ( Frequency: six times per year, circulation: 5,000 )

Class music has been published since the beginning of 2008 no more than its own journal, but has risen in music and education.

Awards

• 2012: Innovation Award of the Association of German Book Trade for electronic publishing, AKEP Award