A leader in supplying sheet music for over 35 years to professional and amateur musicians and educational institutions. Hartel, thomas frenzel has become an authority on the history of the. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Of these we found a handful of very minor errors, all of which have been passed to breitkopf, and which will be corrected on the next print run. The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on music. With great pride and much gratitude, it can look back on a corporate history unique in music life, starting from a small leipzig printing shop in 1719. Alternating with and without staff lines, the pages provide ample space for memos and compositional ideas.
Currently unavailable click the availability alert to enter your name and email address. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Book printed material remove available online remove location. Hence, for example, the editorial emphasis literary scholars place on shakespeare and the importance in the history of modern music editing of the bachgesellschaft edition of the works of johann sebastian bach werke, ed. Search the history of over 420 billion web pages on the internet. In his new book which is based on his dissertation, peter schmitz views these pivotal events in the context of brahmss lifelong relationship with this venerable firm. Both cover and pages are of the same high quality paperas our editions. The focus is on its rarities and treasures, together with milestones in the history of interpretation for works of the classical and romantic repertoire, presented by the most prominent artists of their time. Breitkopf of leipzig founded his firm in 1719, and initially published a number of general books, including bibles. Wie nahe mirmein ende who knows when lifes last hour approacheth organ score.
It owned an extensive inventory of music manuscripts, from which copies could be produced on request. Vanaf 1740 verschenen er diverse drukken van het liederboek singende muse an. Though we have made best efforts the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. Breitkopf padagogik bringt neue musikpadagogische konzepte, breitkopf urtext garantiert interpreten wissenschaftlich einwandfreie ausgaben. Already dealing with leading composers in the 18th century, breitkopf continues this tradition today. Bach, beethoven, mozart, brahms, mendelssohn, sibelius, robert schumann, clara wieckschumann, and reger.
Breitkopf thematic catalogues, 176287 by breitkopf, johann gottlob and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Vintage german language book huttenein kampf ums reich by f. Their catalogue includes complete editions by mendelssohn, eisler and sibelius, a variety of chamber and solo music as well as contemporary music and teaching aids. Breitkopf urtext guarantees musicologically flawless editions for interpreters. The breitkopf firm, which began in 1719 as a book printing operation, gradually became one of the most important publishing houses in central europe. Bachs fourpart chorales by thomas braatz september 2006. With great pride and much gratitude, it can look back on a corporate. History this firm is the oldest continuously operating music publisher in the world, with a nearly 400year history. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. However, the firm did not publish music until later. The firm was founded in 1719 in leipzig by bernhard christoph breitkopf 16951777, most likely on 24 january 1. The plan of this book provides for two lessons a week for thirty weeks.
The firm was founded in 1719 in leipzig by bernhard christoph breitkopf. Presto books sells an extensive range of over 35,000 music books. Breitkopf have been extraordinarily thorough in their proofing of this new edition. This is a pre1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Its foundation was laid in 1719, when bernhardt christoph breitkopf, member of a mining family of the hartz, born at clausthal march 2, 1695, set up a printing press at leipsic. This firm is the oldest continuously operating music publisher in the world. This firm is the oldest continuously operating music publisher in the world, with a nearly 400year history. Download and buy printable sheet music online at jw pepper. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages. Bookprinted material, available online, germany, druck. Most biographies of mozart have undervalued the manypassages in the rich family correspondence which do not bear directly on him. The name of breitkopf has become the main association with a collection of a large number of johann sebastian bachs 4pt.
The name hartel was added when gottfried christoph hartel took over the company in 1795. In 1807, hartel began to manufacture pianos, an endeavour which lasted until 1870. In the 1750s johann breitkopf, designer of the breitkopf fraktur typeface, improved methods of printing. Prophetically introduced and initiated into the publishing world by robert schumann, brahms pathway to success was practically paved for him. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. Breitkopf and haertel urtext editions sheet music at jw.
With great pride and much gratitude, it can look back on a corporate history. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Clothes make the man or woman, or so at least they say. There must be in the order of over a million notes and markings in this score. In 1736 it published schemellis gesangbuch, which included bach chorales. We look at its history and the great music it has published.