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German and Austrian Music Publishers
Collection of annotated publishers' catalogues, relating mostly to the acquisition by Robert Lienau of other publishing houses, including the firms of Schlesinger and Haslinger
1) Verlags-Catalog der Buch- und Musikalien-Handlung von Cosmar und Krause [deleted and replaced in manuscript with the name of Rudolph Zesch], no place, 1830, 20 pages, 8vo, extensive contemporary manuscript annotations, with a loose manuscript leaf detailing further publications; bound together with Erster Nachtrag zum Verlags-Catalog...1832, no place, [1832], [4] pages, 8vo, contemporary manuscript annotations
2) Musikalien-Verlags-Catalog der Schlesinger'schen Buch- und Musikhandlung in Berlin, [Berlin:] 1846, inscribed on the upper cover "zum Schlesinger'schen Contract gehörig", 100 pages, large 8vo, printed wrappers, bound together with 3) and 4) and 7 others
3) Verzeichniss der Verlags-Bücher der Schlesinger'schen Buch- und Musikhandlung in Berlin, [Berlin:] F. Nietack'schen Buchdruckerei, 1856, SIGNED ON THE VERSO OF THE TITLE-PAGE BY HEINRICH SCHLESINGER AND ROBERT LIENAU ("...Heinrich Schlesinger...Rob Lienau"), 36 pages, 8vo, notary seal to upper wrapper, Berlin, 1 June 1864; and another, disbound, copy signed by Schlesinger and Lienau, dated 30 September 1870
4) Erstes Supplement des Musikalien-Catalogs der Schlesinger'schen Buch- und Musikhandlung in Berlin...Premier Supplément du Catalogue de Musique, Berlin: F. Nietack, 1855, SIGNED ON THE UPPER WRAPPER BY HEINRICH SCHLESINGER AND ROBERT LIENAU ("...Heinrich Schlesinger...Rob. Lienau"), [30] pages, small 4to, notary seal to upper wrapper, printed wrappers, browning to edges 
5) Verzeichniss der im Verlage von Carl Haslinger qm. Tobias, k. k. Hof- und priv. Kunst- und Musikalien-Handlung in Wien...erschienenen Musikalien. Erste [...Zweite...Dritte] Abtheilung...(Ostern 1857.), Vienna: Karl Ueberreuter, 1857, SIGNED ON THE UPPER WRAPPER OF THE FIRST PART BY JOSEPHINE HASLINGER AND ROBERT LIENAU ("Josefine Haslinger...Emil Robert Lienau"), 23, 39 and 20 pages, 4to, printed wrappers, dated Vienna, 9 December 1875; trimmed and bound together in card wrappers with: Verlags-Katalog der k. k. Hof- und priv. Kunst- und Musikalien-Handlung Carl Haslinger qm Tobias...Erste [...Zweite...Dritte] Abteilung...Michaelis 1875, Vienna: C. Ueberreuter'sche Buchdruckerei, 1875, SIGNED ON THE TITLE OF THE FIRST PART by JOSEPHINE HASLINGER AND ROBERT LIENAU ("Josefine Haslinger ...Emil Robert Lienau"), 32, 47 and 23 pages, 4to, dated Vienna, 9 December 1875; and loose copies of the first and third parts of the Michaelmas 1875 catalogue
6) Verlags-Catalog der Schlesinger'schen Buch- und Musikhandlung (Robert Lienau)...Vierte Abtheilung...1871, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1871], SIGNED AT THE END BY ROBERT LIENAU AND GUSTAV MODE ("Robert Lienau...Gustav Mode"), 40 pages, 8vo, a few other annotations; together with: two Haslinger catalogues (one being the Verlags-Catalog der K.K.Hof- und privil. Kunst- und Musikalien-Handlung des Tobias Haslinger...N.o 618 [1837], the catalogue laid down on 56 pages, last leaf loose, nineteenth-century boards; the other a copy of a catalogue issued by 'Tobias Haslinger's Witwe und Sohn' revised and annotated by Carl Haslinger, [?1850s], the separated leaves of the 91-page catalogue bound in a manuscript volume containing extensive additions and corrections to the printed catalogue in Carl Haslinger's hand, nineteenth-century boards); a typed and annotated list of works transferred in 1938 to the Verlag Carl Haslinger, 9 pages, c.34 x 21cm, cut down from a larger leaf, unbound; a volume containing a manuscript inventory of publications by the firm of Haslinger between the years 1930 and 1938, 23 pages, plus blanks, 4to, wrappers, no place, 1930-1938; and one other 
A REMARKABLE COLLECTION DOCUMENTING SOME KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF GERMAN MUSIC PUBLISHING.
This collection unites three of the greatest names in nineteenth-century German music publishing - those of the Berlin firm of Schlesinger, the Vienna company of Haslinger, and of Robert Lienau (1838-1920), who, having joined the publishing business of Schlesinger in Berlin in 1864, acquired those two publishing houses in 1864 and 1875, respectively.
Annotations and signatures of the various parties on some of the catalogues make it clear that these formed the basis of the actual negotiations and contracts for the various sales. A coda to the collection is provided by the list of publications which were transferred in 1938 to the Verlag Carl Haslinger, sections of whose Vienna operations were directed as an independent firm by Robert Lienau's younger son Friedrich Wilhelm Lienau (1876-1973) after his withdrawal from the Berlin business in 1938.