Gottfried Christoph Härtel (January 27, 1763July 25, 1827) was a music publisher in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, companion to Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. He took over their company,

Breitkopf & Härtel Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...

, in 1796 from Breitkopf, who was having financial difficulties. Härtel was also one of the founders of the ''

Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung The ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'' (''General music newspaper'') was a German-language periodical published in the 19th century. Comini (2008) has called it "the foremost German-language musical periodical of its time". It reviewed musical e ...

'' (''General musical newspaper''), one of the most important musical journals of the 19th century, which he started in 1798, along with Friedrich Rochlitz.

References

* Oscar von Hase, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie,
Breitkopf and Hartel
', Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, page 300. *

External links

* 1763 births 1827 deaths German music publishers (people) {{publish-bio-stub