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2 unusual facts about Breitkopf & Hartel


Armeemarschsammlung

Marches in the third (cavalry) collection were first published by Schlesinger in Berlin beginning in 1824 and continued by Bote & Bock in Berlin and finally Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig (a project terminated at the end of World War I).

Mozart and scatology

In 1798, Constanze sent her late husband's Bäsle letters to the publishers Breitkopf & Härtel, who at the time were gathering material in hopes of preparing a Mozart biography.


Alessandro Rolla

As an example of his fame in Italy and abroad, it is worth noting that during his lifetime his compositions were published by publishers such as Le Duc and Imbault in Paris, Artaria in Vienna, Breitkopf & Hartel in Leipzig, Monzani & Hill in London, André in Offenbach, Ricordi in Milan from 1809, and many more.

Carl Friedrich Abel

18, and was published as such in the first complete edition of Mozart's works by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Catalog of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni

, arrangement; SB, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; B&H, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig (unless otherwise indicated); cat.

Ludwig Ritter von Köchel

Moreover, Köchel arranged Mozart's works into twenty-four categories, which were used by Breitkopf & Härtel when they published the first complete edition of Mozart's works from 1877 to 1910, a venture partly funded by Köchel.

William Lindeman

The third son of Karl Gotthilf Lindemann, a preacher who was rector of the municipal school, Wilhelm learned cabinetmaking, and in 1812 moved to Vienna where he worked as a fancy cabinetmaker, and later moved to Munich working as a pianomaker for about a year, and subsequently for piano manufacturers Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and Rosenkranz in Dresden before establishing his own shop.


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