Edition Peters, also known as C.F.Peters Musikverlag, is a German

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 music publishing house, founded in Leipzig

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 in 1800.

From the 1860s it was largely run by members the Hinrichsen family, who were Jewish. The company was confiscated by the Nazis

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 and administered by the "Trustee of Jewish Property". Henri Hinrichsen and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen did not survive the Holocaust

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. After the end of the war

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 the company received a license from the Soviet

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 military authority to continue publishing but in 1948 the firm was formally confiscated by the East German authorities and turned into a state owned and managed enterprise.

Walter Hinrichsen, a surviving member of the family, founded C.F. Peters Corporation in New York

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 in 1948, initially reprinting the main works in Edition Peters, then contemporary American composers. Simultaneously Max Hinrichsen was republishing Edition Peters in London

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. A famous case in the English High Court

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 confirmed the inheritance of Edition Peters by the surviving Hinrichsen heirs and C.F. Peters Corporation, New York, remains one of the most notable publishing houses in the US

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.

Following reunification

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 the East German company was merged with C.F. Peters of Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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, leaving only a small office in Leipzig.