HINRICHSEN

HINRICHSEN, family of music publishers. In 1880, Dr. MAX ABRAHAM (1831–1900), founded the Edition Peters and the Peters Music Library. After Abraham's death the business was inherited by his nephew HENRI HINRICHSEN (1868–1942).Under his direction the firm developed a personal association with such famous composers as mahler , schoenberg , Richard Strauss, and Hugo Wolf. In 1931 his sons MAX (1901–1965) and WALTER (1907–1969) joined the firm. The original Leipzig headquarters were confiscated by the Nazis in 1939. In 1938 Max settled in London, and established Hinrichsen Edition, Ltd. Walter Hinrichsen, who had emigrated to the United States in 1936, founded C.F. Peters Corporation in New York in 1948. In 1950, new headquarters were founded by the two brothers and Dr. J. Petschull in Frankfurt/Main (C.F. Peters Musikverlag). The firm succeeded in reestablishing Edition Peters as one of the most important music publishers in West Germany. In 1989, the Leipzig firm came into the hands of C.F. Peters-Frankfurt. Today the companies make available globally over 15,000 titles ranging from the Renaissance to the avant-garde compositions of today. -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Grove online; I. Lawford-Hinrichsen, Music Publishing and Patronage: C.F. Peters, 1800 to the Holocaust (2000). (Naama Ramot (2nd ed.)