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Gottfried Christoph Härtel

Gottfried Christoph Härtel (January 27, 1763 –July 25, 1827) was a music publisher in Leipzig, companion to Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. He took over their company, Breitkopf & Härtel, in 1796 from Breitkopf, who was having financial difficulties.

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Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf German music publisher

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Breitkopf & Härtel publisher

Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf.

Härtel was also one of the founders of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (General musical newspaper), one of the most important musical journals of the 19th century, which he started in 1798, along with Friedrich Rochlitz.

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Breitkopf Fraktur typeface

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Johann Friedrich Rochlitz German writer and historian

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Franz Christoph Neubauer was a German composer and violinist of Bohemian origins, possibly born in Hořín near Mělník. He died in Bückeburg.

Frederick Methfessel was a German composer. At the instigation of his parents, Johann Christian Methfessel and Sophia Marie Methfessel, he studied theology at Leipzig University starting in 1796, but in his leisure time he studied guitar, piano, violin, and vocal performance.

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The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its task is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications since 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public. The German National Library maintains co-operative external relations on a national and international level. For example, it is the leading partner in developing and maintaining bibliographic rules and standards in Germany and plays a significant role in the development of international library standards. The cooperation with publishers has been regulated by law since 1935 for the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig and since 1969 for the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt.


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