Fritz Simrock
Friedrich August Simrock, better known as Fritz Simrock (January 2, 1837 in Bonn – August 20, 1901 in Ouchy) was a German music publisher who inherited a publishing firm from his grandfather Nikolaus Simrock. Simrock is most noted for publishing most of the music of Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák.
Simrock published almost all of Brahms's pieces from Opus 16 to Opus 120[1][2] and was very good friends with Brahms, even going on holidays to Italy with him.[3] Simrock generally paid Brahms well for his music,[4] but with Dvořák he was often unwilling to publish orchestral pieces, for example, his Eighth Symphony.[5] Simrock was so involved in the lives of prominent musicians that Joseph Joachim came to believe that his wife Amalie was cheating on him with Simrock, and Brahms wrote a famous "lengthy letter" in support of Amalie's innocence, which "was cited in evidence at the [Joachims'] divorce proceedings."[6] The divorce was not granted.
Per Brahms' advice, Simrock took a chance with the young
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-1951-7067-2
- New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
- ^ Johannes Brahms & Elisabeth Herzogenberg, Johannes Brahms: The Herzogenberg Correspondence Ed. Max Kalbeck, transl. Hannah Bryant. New York: Da Capo Press (1987): 310, *footnote.
- ISBN 978-0-5214-7959-2"In his next letter, dated 25 April [1877], Simrock readily agreed to Brahms's request for the princely sum of 5,000 Talers (15,000 [Deutsche] Marks)."
- ISBN 978-0521669030
- ^ Robert Anderson. "Brahms in Brief". The Musical Times, summer (1998): 69.
- ^ a b Siepmann, Jeremy, and Sean Barrett. Antonín Dvořák. S.l: Naxos, 2004.
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