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...year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn's Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that "forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to collect all of Haydn's works, but bogged down. It was too expensive and nobody cared." The 13-year-old thereupon resolved that Haydn's work should be collected and that people should be made to care. That was in 1939. By last week, at a heavyset 24, Boston's H. C. Robbins Landon was well on the way to both...
...German publishers may still not be entirely out of the running. Last week one of their Manhattan agents, Associated Music Publishers, rushed out a new score, a photo-offset reprint of a Breitkopf & Härtel edition (Mozart's Magic Flute overture), selling for $8.50 and labeled "the only authorized American reprint." A.M.P. vowed to beat Hampton prices all along the line, at a loss if necessary...
Nearly two months ago the music of Jean Sibelius' Origin of Fire, carefully wrapped in two separate packages, was mailed by Leipzig Publishers Breitkopf & Haertel to Boston Symphony's Conductor Koussevitzky. Last week, with the U. S. premiere of the lamed Finn's work scheduled for immediate performance, Boston Symphony officials, still awaiting the appearance of one of the packages, telegraphed frantically to Leipzig. The publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts...
...winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor...
...Firms like Ricordi and Sozogno limit themselves chiefly to opera publications, where the profits are probable and large, and let these crazy modernist fellows severely alone. But today the Italian modernists are enjoying quite a vogue throughout the world. The head of the Universal Edition of Vienna, which with Breitkopf and Hertal has the highest rank among central European music publishing houses, told the writer that his firm had been able to continue business largely because of the fact that they held the copyrights on the Italian modernists, whose works now brought royalties from all over the world, royalties...