Heinrich Philipp Bossler

Bossler was born as the son of Friedrich Jacob Bossler (1717 – 1793), a court air gun maker for the landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt, and a Schultheiss's daughter, Catharina Justina Fischer (1717 – 1772) from Braubach.{{Cite book |last=Schneider |first=Hans |title=Der Musikverleger Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744–1812. Mit bibliographischen Übersichten und einem Anhang Mariane Kirchgeßner und Boßler. |year=1985 |isbn=3-7952-0500-X |location=Tutzing |pages=15 |language=German}} His grandfather Johann Peter Bossler (1689 – 1742) is documented as a court gunsmith of the Hessian landgraves since 1715 and founded the Darmstadt branch of the Bossler family from southern Hesse.{{Cite journal |last=Bossler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2020 |title=Er war nicht zu Zella geboren! Der Hessen-Darmstädtische Hofbüchsenmacher Johann Peter Boßler und seine Dynastie – Abstract |journal=Waffen- und Kostümkunde – Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kleidungsgeschichte |language=English |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=172–173 |issn=0042-9945}}

Heinrich Philipp thus descended from a gunsmith family belonging to the hunting history of Hesse-Darmstadt, whose air rifles can be found in all the renowned gun collections of Europe.{{Cite book |last=Hoff |first=Arne |title=Dutch Firearms |publisher=Sotheby's Parke-Bernet |year=1978 |isbn=0-85667-041-3 |editor-last=Stryker |editor-first=Walter |location=London |pages=246 |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Hoff |first=Arne |title=Feuerwaffen II |publisher=Bibliothek für Kunst- und Antiquitätenfreunde |year=1969 |volume=IX/A |location=Braunschweig |pages=313 |language=German |oclc=955568100}}

Heinrich Philipp Boßler was a second cousin of the dramatist and novelist Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel |date=2020 |title=Der berühmte Sturm-und-Drang-Dichter Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger aus Frankfurt mit geklärten Odenwälder Wurzeln |journal=Hessische Genealogie |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=28–29 |issn=2626-0220 |via=Hessische familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung}} Klinger's paternal grandmother and Boßler's paternal grandfather Johann Peter Boßler were siblings.{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2020 |title=Er war nicht zu Zella geboren! Der Hessen-Darmstädtische Hofbüchsenmacher Johann Peter Boßler und seine Dynastie |url=https://webopac.gnm.de/aDISWeb/app?service=direct/0/Home/$DirectLink&sp=SOPAC&sp=SAK00711368 |journal=Waffen- und Kostümkunde. Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kleidungsgeschichte |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=159 |issn=0042-9945}}  

Ludwig van Beethoven published his first compositions at the age of 12 in the Blumenlese für Klavierliebhaber, published by Heinrich Philipp Boßler.{{Cite book |last=Senner |first=Wayne M. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAvEtVbCY3QC&dq=Heinrich+Philipp+Bossler+english&pg=PA25 |title=The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-8032-1251-8 |volume=1 |publication-date=1999 |pages=25 |language=English |chapter=General Section}} The music dealer Boßler also published well-known first and early prints by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. The compositions of Joseph Haydn were treated with special distinction in Bossler's publishing house.{{Cite book |last=Landon |first=H. C. Robbins |title=Haydn at Eszterháza 1766–1790 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=1978 |isbn=0-500-01168-0 |location=London |pages=475, 517, 672 |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Heartz |first=Daniel |title=Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven 1781–1802 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-393-06634-0 |location=New York and London |pages=367, 399, 400, 509, 517, 685–686 |language=English}} As impresario of the successful star virtuoso on the glass harmonica Marianne Kirchgessner, Bossler undertook extensive concert tours throughout Europe and Russia.{{Cite book |last=Fürst |first=Marion |title=Maria Theresia Paradis. Mozarts berühmte Zeitgenossin |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |year=2005 |isbn=3-412-19505-7 |location=Köln, Weimar and Wien |pages=83 |language=German}}

Around 1779 he invented a machine to simplify music printing,{{Cite book |last=Rogal |first=Samuel J. |title=Biographical and bibliographical checklist of principal works related to western music published during the long eighteenth century (1660 – 1820) |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |year=2003 |isbn=0773468838 |location=Lewiston |pages=19 |language=English}} which caused a sensation and enjoyed high acclaim. The publishing house subsequently founded by Heinrich Philipp Bossler in Speyer in 1780 was one of the most important music publishers of the time.{{Cite book |last=Ladenburger |first=Michael |title=Die musikalische Welt des jungen Beethoven. Beethovens Verleger Heinrich Philipp Boßler |work=Musik verlegt bei Boßler – Inspirationsquelle für den jungen Beethoven |publisher=Beethoven House |year=2001 |isbn=3-88188-064-X |location=Bonn |pages=14–24 |language=German}}

Heinrich Philipp Bossler was considered a pioneer in the field of music journalism.{{Cite book |last=Schneider |first=Hans |title=Die musikalische Welt des jungen Beethoven. Beethovens Verleger Heinrich Philipp Boßler |work=Heinrich Philipp Boßler – ein Musikverleger am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts |publisher=Beethoven House |year=2001 |isbn=3-88188-064-X |location=Bonn |pages=3 |language=German}} In addition, his invention of a music printing press for fast, inexpensive and precise printing of sheet music was highly respected.{{Cite book |last=Dauscher |first=Andreas |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10598443?page=38,39 |title=Kleines Handbuch der Musiklehre und vorzüglich der Querflöte. Aus den besten Quellen geschöpft |publisher=Stettinsche Buchhandlung |year=1801 |location=Ulm |pages=21 |language=German}} His publishing works belong to the realm of German cultural treasures and are marked by musicological relevance.

Heinrich Philipp Bossler refused to publish plagiarisms. This characteristic made his music publishing house almost unique by the standards of the time. Bossler also gained importance as the impresario of Marianne Kirchgessner.{{Cite book |last=Schneider |first=Hans |title=Der Musikverleger Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744–1812. Mit bibliographischen Übersichten und einem Anhang Mariane Kirchgeßner und Boßler. |year=1985 |isbn=3-7952-0500-X |location=Tutzing |pages=7–8 |language=German}}

• Blumenlese für Klavierliebhaber. Eine musikalische Wochenschrift
• Bibliothek der Grazien. Eine Monatsschrift für Liebhaberinnen und Freunde des Gesangs und Klaviers
• Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filharmonischen Gesellschaft

• Elementarbuch der Tonkunst zum Unterricht beim Klavier für Lehrende und Lernende

• Hans-Martin Plesske, [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/search?f_0=title&q_0=Bossler%2C+Heinrich+Philipp+Carl+&subSite=grovemusic Bossler, Heinrich Philipp Carl] , at: Grove Music Online, 2001.

• Hubert Unverricht, Haydn und Bossler, at: Festskrift Jens Peter Larsen – 14.VI.1902 – 14.VI.1972. Herausgegeben von Nils Schiørring, Kopenhagen 1972, p. 285–300.
• Joshua Rifkin, Ein Haydn-Zitat bei Bossler, at: Haydn-Studien Bd. IV, Heft 1, Köln Mai 1976, p. 55–56.
• Hans Schneider, Der Musikverleger Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744–1812. Mit bibliographischen Übersichten und einem Anhang Mariane Kirchgeßner und Boßler, Tutzing 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0500-X.
• Hans Schneider, Die musikalische Welt des jungen Beethoven – Beethovens Verleger Heinrich Philipp Boßler, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-88188-064-X.
• Günther Grünsteudel, „Der König liebt seine Kompositionen ausserordentlich...“. Rosetti und Bossler in Berlin 1792, at: Rosetti-Forum, issue 6, 2005, {{ISSN|1615-5556}} p. 23–32 ([https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/116/file/Rosetti-Bossler.pdf Digitalisat]; PDF; 47 kB).
• Harald Hassler, Bossler, Heinrich Philipp, at: Musiklexikon in vier Bänden, 2nd updated and expanded edition, Vol. 2 – A to E, Stuttgart 2005, p. 325.
• Bill Oswald, Bossler, Heinrich Philipp, at: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3, p. 96 ([https://www.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de/b/bossler-heinrich-philipp.html Digitalisat]).

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