Bote & Bock is a German publishing house founded in Berlin in 1838 by Eduard Bote and Gustav Bock (1813-1863). [1]
The first Gustav Bock was a musically gifted publisher with an eye for opera. [2] Eduard Bote withdrew from the business in 1847, after the firm was run by Gustav Bock alone till his death in 1863. Bock's brother Emil Bock (1816-1871) then picked up the firm till his own death seven years later. [3] Gustav's son Hugo Bock (1848-1932) had only been 15 when his father died, and upon the death of his uncle he found himself running the company at the age of 23. [4] It was Hugo Bock who built the company's international reputation, [5] to whom a son Gustav Bock was also born in 1882. [6] Following Hugo Bock's death in 1932, the business was taken over by Robert Lienau in 1935 but the name Bote & Bock retained. [7]
Boosey & Hawkes acquired the company in 1996. [8]
Johann Michael Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as the "Gehrener Bach" to distinguish him from the "Wuppertaler Bach", Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820).
Carl Wilhelm, was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
Gustav von Wangenheim was a German nobleman, actor, screenwriter and director.
Emil Weyr was an Austrian-Czech mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.
Gustav Theodor Fritsch was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiologist from Cottbus.
Robert Emil Lienau was a prolific German music publisher.
Hans Richter was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984, mostly in supporting roles. He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and died in Heppenheim, Germany.
Felix (von) Lichnowsky, fullyFelix Maria Vincenz Andreas Fürst von Lichnowsky, Graf von Werdenberg was a son of the historian Eduard Lichnowsky who had written a history of the Habsburg family.
Emil Bock was a German anthroposophist, author, theologian and one of the founders of The Christian Community.
Emil Beurmann was a Swiss painter, writer and poet.
Gustav Emil Devrient was a German actor and an occasional operatic bass.
Wedding at Lake Wolfgang is a 1933 German musical film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Hugo Schrader, Gustl Gstettenbaur and Oskar Sima. Made at the end of the Weimar Republic it had release problems due to Nazi objections to the film's Jewish director.
Zebi Nasi Hirsch Prinz in German Heinrich Prinz, and later Rev. Christian William Henry Pauli was a convert to Christianity, missionary for the London Jewish mission, and Hebrew grammarian.
Harry Halm was a German film actor.
"Der Krämerspiegel", Op. 66, is a 1918 song cycle of 12 songs written by Richard Strauss. The songs were set to texts commissioned by Strauss in a piqued response to a contractual obligation to produce a set of songs for his publisher. The texts were provided by Berlin literary critic Alfred Kerr, who wrote for Strauss a set of acidic verses ridiculing the music publishing business and containing in-jokes attacking some of Strauss' enemies such as Bote & Bock. The list of titles is:
Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH is a German publishing house founded in 1789. Now part of the holdings of Peter Tamm's Tamm Media, it is one of the oldest German publishers still existing.
Die Weihe der Nacht, Op. 119, is a choral composition for alto, men's choir and orchestra by Max Reger, setting a poem by Friedrich Hebbel. He composed it in Leipzig in 1911 and dedicated it to Gertrud Fischer-Maretzki, the soloist in the first performance. It was published by Ed. Bote & G. Bock in Berlin the same year.
A Night on the Danube is 1935 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Olga Engl, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, and Gustav Waldau. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin and on location in Budapest and Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Arthur Schwarz.
Georg Eduard Hallberger, after 1869: von Hallberger was a German publisher and businessman.
Peter Sühring is a German musicologist, publicist and music critic.