A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Simrock

SIMROCK. A very famous German music-publishing house, founded in 1790 at Bonn by Nikolaus Simrock, second waldhorn player in the Elector's band, to which Beethoven and his father belonged. The first of Beethoven's works on which Simrock's name appears as original publisher is the Kreutzer Sonata, op. 47, issued in 1805. But he published for Beethoven an 'Edition tres Correcte' of the two Sonatas in G and D minor (op. 31, nos. 1 and 2), which Nageli had printed so shamefully; and there is evidence in the letters that Simrock was concerned in others of Beethoven's early works. The next was the Sextet for strings and 2 horns, op. 81 b (1810); then the two Sonatas for PF. and cello, op. 102 (1817); the ten themes with variations for PF. and violin or flute, op. 107 (1820). In 1870 a branch was founded in Berlin by Peter joseph Simrock, who has published the principal works of Brahms since that date.

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