{{Short description|German music publisher}} thumb|Title page of a 1906 Simrock edition of Dvorak's 5th Symphony for piano '''N. Simrock''' (in German '''Musikverlag N. Simrock''', '''Simrock Verlag''', or simply '''Simrock''') was a German music publisher founded by Nikolaus Simrock which published many 19th-century German classical music composers. It was acquired in 1929 by Anton Benjamin.
The firm was founded in 1793 by Nikolaus Simrock in Bonn. Simrock had been a close friend to Beethoven his whole life. It was expanded by his son Peter Joseph in the 19th century, and in 1870 moved to Berlin by the latter's son Fritz.<ref>Donald William Krummel and Stanley Sadie, ''Music Printing and Publishing'', Norton/Grove handbooks in music, New York: Norton, 1990, {{ISBN|9780393028096}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UcoXAQAAIAAJ&q=Simrock p. 107].</ref> His nephew Hans Simrock later ran the company, and in 1907 acquired another music publisher, Bartholf Senff of Leipzig.<ref name=Biba89>Otto Biba, "Die Simrocks—Verleger für Beethoven wie für Brahms", in ''Johannes Brahms und Bonn'', ed. Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff, Bonn: Stadt Bonn, Beethoven-Haus, 1997, {{ISBN|9783922832164}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQHAQAAMAAJ&q=Musikverlag+Simrock p. 89] {{in lang|de}}</ref><ref>''Beiträge zur Geschichte des Buchwesens'' 3 (1968) [https://books.google.com/books?id=nsNMAQAAIAAJ&q=N.+Simrock p. 204] {{in lang|de}}</ref> In 1911 the company merged with Albert Ahn's publishing house to form Ahn & Simrock, headquartered in Bonn and Berlin, but later separated from it. In 1929 it was sold to the Leipzig publisher Anton J. Benjamin,<ref name=Biba89/><ref>''The School Musician Director and Teacher'' 56 (1985) [https://books.google.com/books?id=pePjAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Hamburg+firm+of+Anton+J.+Benjamin%2C+founded+in+1818%2C+acquired+the+catalog+of+Daniel+Rahter+in+1917%2C+and+the+great+catalog+of+N.+Simrock+in+1929%2C+thus+inheriting+a+tradition+including+the+original+editions+of+Beethoven%2C+Brahms%2C+Bruch p. 42].</ref><ref name=GeschichteuGegenwart>Ludwig Finscher and Friedrich Blume, ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik'', Part 2, Volume 15, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, {{ISBN|9783476410306}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3LkzAQAAIAAJ&q=1929+wurde+N.+Simrock+an+den+Musikverlag+Anton+J.+Benjamin+in+Leipzig+verkauft%2C+aber+unter+altem+Namen+weitergef%C3%BChrt.+Im+Zuge+der+%3EArisierung%3C+...+2002+gelangte+N.+Simrock+durch+den+Verkauf+des+Verlages+Benjamin+an+Boosey+%26+Hawkes p. 837] {{in lang|de}}</ref> which was re-established in 1951 in Hamburg<ref>Krummel and Sadie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UcoXAQAAIAAJ&q=As+Verlag+Benjamin%2C+the+firm+moved+to+Leipzig+in+1920%2C+and+Richard+Schauer%2C+a+nephew+of+John+Benjamin%2C+took+over+the+...+In+1951+the+firm+was+returned+to+its+rightful+owner+and+Anton+J.+Benjamin+Musikverlag+GmbH+was+founded+in+Hamburg+ p. 170].</ref> and acquired by Boosey & Hawkes in 2002.<ref name=GeschichteuGegenwart/> Many of the company's archives and plates were lost in the Second World War and had to be reconstructed by reproducing old editions.<ref>''The Instrumentalist'' 47 (1992) [https://books.google.com/books?id=_DhLAAAAYAAJ&q=N.+Simrock+Anton+J.+Benjamin pp. 5, 106].</ref> The remaining archives were mostly held in what is now the Saxon State Archive in Leipzig, but some material was dispersed in the 1990s and early 2000s.<ref>Michael Freyhan, ''The Authentic Magic Flute Libretto: Mozart's Autograph Or the First Full Score Edition?'', Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 2009, {{ISBN|9780810869677}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aZRiQ3eDnqAC&dq=Simrock+Archive+Leipzig&pg=PA159 p. 159].</ref>
The company was the first publisher of the music of a veritable "Who's Who" of classical music composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (what must have been a hand-written copy of ''The Magic Flute''),<ref>Freyhan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uBYI_8RM2BoC&dq=%22Simrock+sold%22&pg=PA68 p. 68, note 51].</ref> Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven (13 first editions), Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Robert Schumann (including his Third Symphony), Johannes Brahms,<ref name=Biba89/><ref>Brahms' letters to Fritz Simrock were published in 1917–19; Peter Schmitz, ''Johannes Brahms und der Leipziger Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel'', Abhandlungen zur Musikgeschichte 20, Göttingen: V & R, 2009, {{ISBN|9783899717280}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=X7hly3PTvUAC&dq=Musikverlag+Simrock&pg=PA21 p. 21 and note 23] {{in lang|de}}</ref> Felix Mendelssohn (such as his oratorios ''Elias'' and ''Paulus''),<ref name="Bonn">{{cite web|title=Nikolaus Simrock|url=http://www2.bonn.de/stadtmuseum/inhalte/n_simrock.htm|accessdate=1 May 2012|year=2012|publisher=Stadtmuseum Bonn|language=German|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427141324/http://www2.bonn.de/stadtmuseum/inhalte/n_simrock.htm|archivedate=27 April 2012}}</ref> Max Bruch (including his Violin Concerto No. 1), Antonín Dvořák,<ref name=Biba89/> and Josef Suk.
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * {{cite ADB|34|385|386|Simrock, Nicolaus|Eitner, Robert|ADB:Simrock, Nicolaus}} * ''Musikverlag Simrock: Eine Auswahl der besten Werke''. Catalogue. Berlin/Leipzig: N. Simrock Verlag, [1913]. {{OCLC|504414249}} * Sieghard Brandenburg. "Die Gründungsjahre des Verlags N. Simrock in Bonn". ''Bonner Geschichtsblätter 29'' (1977) 28–36 {{in lang|de}} *{{IMSLP2|work=N. Simrock|cname=N. Simrock}} {{Authority control}}
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