Sellout? Schott gets rid of its historic archive

Sellout? Schott gets rid of its historic archive

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norman lebrecht

November 25, 2014

The music publishers Schott, struggling in  tough market, has got rid of 240 years of history in a fire-sale.

Scott, based in Mainz since 1770, served Beethoven, Wagner and other giants, kept their contracts, manuscripts portraits and correspondence.

The archive has been bought for an undisclosed sum by a consortium led by the Bavarian State Library. It will be split between Munich and Berlin.

 

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