Breitkopf & Härtel

German music publisher
Organization publishing_house Q634246
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Breitkopf & Härtel

Summary

Breitkopf & Härtel is a publishing house[1]. It draws 145 Wikipedia views per month (publishing_house category, ranking #106 of 994).[2]

Key Facts

  • Breitkopf & Härtel is in the country of Germany[3].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel is in the country of German Democratic Republic[4].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's instance of is recorded as publishing house[5].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's instance of is recorded as music publisher[6].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's instance of is recorded as printing company[7].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's founder is recorded as Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf[8].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's headquarters location is recorded as Wiesbaden[9].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's Commons category is recorded as Breitkopf & Härtel[10].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's industry is recorded as music industry[11].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's archives at is recorded as Saxony State Archives Leipzig[12].
  • 1719 marks the founding of Breitkopf & Härtel[13].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.33416479581739, 'lon': 12.382116995710799}[14].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's location of formation is recorded as Leipzig[15].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's official website is recorded as http://www.breitkopf.com/[16].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon[17].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie[18].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[19].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1900[21].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's described by source is recorded as Geographicus Rare Antique Maps biographical dictionary of cartographers[22].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's legal form is recorded as Kommanditgesellschaft[23].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Breitkopf & Härtel'}[24].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Genadendal Music Archive[25].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Postcards[26].
  • Breitkopf & Härtel's street address is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Nürnberger Straße 36 / 38 (Leipzig)'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[28]

  • Began / founded: 1719[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 514d32b6-17a2-4c0b-ba45-9e9c055c8a13[30]

Body

Founding

Breitkopf & Härtel's founder is recorded as Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf[8]. 1719 marks the founding of it[13]. Its location of formation is recorded as Leipzig[15].

Operations

Breitkopf & Härtel's headquarters location is recorded as Wiesbaden[9].

Industry

Breitkopf & Härtel's industry is recorded as music industry[11].

Why It Matters

Breitkopf & Härtel draws 145 Wikipedia views per month (publishing_house category, ranking #106 of 994).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . first-in-music.com. first-in-music.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . archiv.sachsen.de. Retrieved . archiv.sachsen.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . leipzig.de. leipzig.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Geographicus Rare Antique Maps biographical dictionary of cartographers. Retrieved . geographicus.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . digital.slub-dresden.de. digital.slub-dresden.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of formation
    On focus list of wikimedia project Genadendal Music Archive, WikiProject Postcards
    Country Germany, German Democratic Republic
    Has works in the collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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