Voggenreiter Verlag

Voggenreiter is a German music publisher.

History

In 1919 Ludwig Voggenreiter and Franz Ludwig Habbel established the publisher "Der Weiße Ritter" ("The White Knight") in Potsdam. When Habbel left the company in 1924 it was renamed "Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag". The program comprised mainly song- and logbooks as well as books for adolescents and fiction. After Ludwig Voggenreiters death in 1947 his brother Heinrich continued the company, publishing bestselling songbooks such as "Der Turm" or "Der Kilometerstein". Two years later the company moved to Bad Godesberg and was renamed "Voggenreiter Verlag".

In 1967 Ernst Rüdiger Voggenreiter, Heinrich Voggenreiters son, founded the Xenophon record label which published Reinhard Mey, Hannes Wader and other musicians. In the seventies and eighties, the company began the production of music books for autodidacts, one notable book being the guitar book by Peter Bursch.

After the death of Ernst Voggenreiter, his sons Charles and Ralph took over. They introduced music instruments, CDs and DVDs to the companies portfolio.^[2]

In May 2017, Voggenreiter moved from Bonn to Wachtberg.^[3]

Products

Voggenreiter publishes music literature, textbooks for various instruments and songbooks in print and electronic form. It is complemented by musical instruments for beginners. "Voggy's Kinderwelt" is aimed at pre-school and primary school children with books and instrument sets. Instruments such as recorder, harmonica, glockenspiel and other percussion instruments are available.

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