C.F. Schmidt

typical cover

flute works list cover

History

C.F. Schmidt of Heilbronn's instrumental works for amateurs, especially for wind players were famous from ca.1890 to 1930.

In 1855 Carl Friedrich Schmidt took over J. D. Claß's bookshop in Heilbronn am Markt and soon began specializing in the sale of music scores and books and publishing sheet music. Heilbronn is a small but historic town in south-west Germany, on the river Neckar between Stuttgart and Heidelberg.

The late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries appear to have been the firm's most prosperous time; most of the C.F. Schmidt scores on this site date from the 1890s to the 1920s. In the 1890s the firm began using the imprint Cefes edition, perhaps to distinguish itself from the publishers Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston, with a branch in Leipzig, Schmid Nachfolger of Munich, and Wilhelm Schmid of Nuremberg.

As for the type of repertoire it published, instrumental works for amateurs were its speciality, while songs, piano pieces and operas are absent.

• Violin (see cover of Chopin's Etude, Op.10 No.3
• Cello (see cover of Ernst's elegy, Op.10)
• Doublebass (see cover of Simandl's arr of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto), especially the works of Theodor Albin Findeisen and Franz Simandl
• Viola: an unusually large catalog of pieces (see the cover pages of Oscar Jüttner's Legende) with many arrangements by Ludwig Pagels.
  
  A particularly rich part of the catalog was the set of collections for wind instruments, like A.E. Fischer of Bremen:
• Clarinet (see the cover of the clarinet part of Heidrich's Trio, Op.33), including most of Robert Stark's works
• Flute, especially works of Paul Wetzger, Friedrich Kuhlau, Jules Demersseman and Rudolf Tillmetz (see the cover of the piano score of Holzhaus' Tarentelle above)
• Oboe (see cover of Friedemann's Ehestandsgeplauder).
• Horn (see the cover of the Kudelski concertino).
• Trumpet (see the cover of the Kudelski horn concertino).
• Solobuch collections were published in the 1890s for Oboe, Flute, Horn, Cornet and Trombone. The same title was used by Fischer of Bremen, for example Solo-Buch for Trumpet.
  
  In 1989 the Schmidt family sold the publishing company and in 2011 the firm was acquired by Thomas Eugene Schneider and the company headquarters was relocated to Bad Aibling, a spa resort in southern Bavaria.

Editions

Imprints, Agencies, Addresses

Imprints

• Verlag und Eigenthum von C.F. Schmidt, Heilbronn a\N.
• Cefes edition

Addresses

• Heilbronn am Markt or Heilbronn a.N. or Heilbronn a/N (i.e., Heilbronn am Neckar) (1855–1989)
• Renningen (1989–2011)
• Bad Aibling (2011– )

Plate Numbers

Schmidt's plate numbers were issued in a regular chronological fashion. Plate numbers are in the format of C.F.S. ####. Dates in italics are estimated.

Sources Consulted

• CEFES "About us"

External Links

• CEFES (Musikverlag C.F. Schmidt) company website