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Albert Gutmann

Austrian music publisher (b. 1852; d. 1915), also known as Albert J. Gutmann.

His firm was founded in Vienna in 1873, and included several major works by Anton Bruckner in its catalogue. It was acquired by Universal Edition in 1920.

Gutmann was the organiser of "The International Exhibition for Music and Drama" in Vienna in 1892, in which capacity he corresponded with Tchaikovsky. Gutmann's memoirs of Viennese musical life—Aus dem Wiener Musikleben—were published in 1915.

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Albert Gutmann:

• 2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Albert Gutmann have survived, dating from 1892.