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Breitkopf & Härtel
Walkmühlstr. 52
65195 Wiesbaden
Germany
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1719
Founded by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (1695-1777) in Leipzig. The firm initially devoted itself exclusively to the printing of books. Later Breitkopf purchased the "Golden Bear House" near the Thomaskirche and the Nicolaikirche. Its heraldic animal still embellishes the publisher's mark to this day.
1736
"Schemellis Gesangbuch" (with Bach chorales) foreshadows the company's future music publishing activities.
1754/55
Improvement of the printing of music with movable type by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (1719-1794). He later invented a Gothic type called "Breitkopf Fraktur", which is still known and valued today.
1762-87
Breitkopf's "Thematische Verzeichnisse". The thematic catalogues with music incipits document the company's impressive stock of works and provide information on the music of Haydn and the early classical era.
1795
Gottfried Christoph Härtel takes over the publishing house (since then: " Breitkopf & Härtel"). Subsequently, close editorial collaboration with Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner and Brahms.
1797
The "Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung" (1797-1848), edited by Friedrich Rochlitz, is the first high-quality music journal in Germany.
1850
Beginning of Complete Editions of Bach, Beethoven (1862), Mendelssohn (1874), Mozart (1876), Schumann (1879), Schubert (1884), Berlioz (1900) a. o.
1877
Beginning of the "Volksausgabe Breitkopf & Härtel" (VA). After some years this first editorial series of Breitkopf & Härtel contains nearly all important concert works of the past. In 1913, the "Volksausgabe" is transformed into the "Edition Breitkopf", the basic series today.
1908
The Bach biography written by the young Alsatian organist Albert Schweitzer represents another milestone in the publisher's longtime cultivation of Bach. Schweitzer's book, which presented the latest research of a new generation of scholars, is still of epoch-making significance to musicology and performance practice today. Schweitzer maintained close ties with Breitkopf & Härtel throughout his life. He even sent the publishers a lengthy, hand-written letter in April 1960 to thank them for their best wishes on his 85th birthday: "You really spoiled the old birthday boy. In fact, I have been spoiled through and through. I have been receiving kind letters from friends and strangers from all corners of the earth. What touched me the most was to realize from these letters that the idea of reverence for life is making its way in the world. For the real achievement of my life was to have brought forth this idea."
1945
Resumption of Breitkopf & Härtel's publishing activities in Wiesbaden. Since 1969 the publishing house is located in the Walkmühlstraße 52.
1980
Expansion of the contemporary music program through the acquisition of works from Edition Gerig, Cologne (Helmut Lachenmann, Nicolaus A. Huber, York Höller). This domain was expanded in subsequent years with the works of Adriana Hölszky, Hanspeter Kyburz, Hans Zender and many younger composers.
1992
Takeover of the Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig (DVfM). This firm, founded in Leipzig in 1954, had many scholarly editions which complement Breitkopf & Härtel's classical and contemporary catalogue: Gesualdo di Venosa, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Hanns Eisler, Siegfried Matthus, Udo Zimmermann and many bilingual instrumental methods.
2000
Takeover of the publishing house "Musica Rara" (Monteux/France). Breitkopf goes online.
2001
First edition of the series "Breitkopf PÄDAGOGIK"
2002
Complete edition "Hanns Eisler Gesamtausgabe" (HEGA) continuing the edition "Eisler: Gesammelte Werke "(EGW)
2003
Acquisition of the orchestral material based on the New Beethoven and New Brahms Complete Editions (G. Henle Verlag Munich)
2004
Internet-Relaunch
2005
New cover design with "Breitkopf Urtext"-Logo (for the first time issued with Klaus Döge's new edition of Dvorak's „Stabat mater“)
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