Hoesick, Ferdynand
Hoesick, Hösick Ferdynand Wilhelm, *25 November 1835 Warsaw, †26 November 1900 Warsaw, Polish bookseller and publisher. He came from a Polonised German family. After an internship from 1848 in the bookshops of G.L. Glücksberg and G.A. Sennewald, for whom he worked for a further three years, he completed an internship in 1855–56 in H. Bossange’s bookshop in Paris and returned to Sennewald’s bookshop for a further three years. He then became co-owner of the J. Kaufmann publishing bookshop and sheet music warehouse, and after the dissolution of the company in 1862, he went abroad and worked in publishing companies in Leipzig, Prague, Heidelberg and Dresden. In 1865, he opened a bookshop in Warsaw with a warehouse of sheet music, musical instruments, maps and globes. On 29 December 1866, he married Maria Matilda Granzow (of Hungarian origin). He maintained wide contacts with foreign countries and published bookstore catalogues (1882, 1883, 1886). He distributed books and periodicals, and in 1877, he opened a sheet music rental at the bookstore (it operated until around 1886). From 1868, he ran a publishing department, which included books for children and young people, as well as sheet music. He initiated several dozen cycles of piano, violin and voice pieces accompanied by instruments for salon and home music, such as: Zbiór najulubieńszych śpiewów polskich i obcych, Album śpiewów salonowych (translated by J. Chęciński), Tańce ulubione warszawskie for piano, Niezapominajki karnawałowe, Bukiet karnawałowy, Zaproszenie do tańca, Dekameron (10 favourite salon songs and duets), „Kłosy”. Najpiękniejsze śpiewy for violin, Salon (a few degrees of difficulty) for piano, Repertuar pani Artôt for voice and piano, Reszke-Album for voice and piano, Z albumu M. Kochańskiej (No. 31 Tęsknota — transcription of Chopin’s Waltz Op. 34, No. 2 for voice and piano, 1892) and others. He also published individual pieces by I.F. Dobrzyński, I.M. Komorowski, K. Kratzer, A. Sonnenfeld, W. Żeleński and others. The most important Fryderyk Wilhelm Hoesick’s editions are the first ones of S. Moniuszko’s works published both during the composer’s lifetime and after his death: Polonaise de concert a grand orchestre, also arranged for 4 hands (1866), Mazur from the ballet Monte Cristo for piano (1866), Pamiętnik do nauki harmonii wykładu S. Moniuszki (1871), the opera Beata, a selection of fragments for voice and piano (1872) — these items were reissued after the composer’s death; by 1876, 20 works had been published as a series under the common title “Msze i śpiewy kościelne S. Moniuszki” (Peter’s Mass, Funeral Mass, 2 Latin masses, Funeral Hymn, 3 pieces for 4-voice mixed choir with organ accompaniment, 9 pieces for solo voice and 3 duets with organ and piano accompaniment). In the 1880s, Hoesick included this series in the collection of religious music, Chwała na wysokości by various composers, and expanded the edition (including works for organ or harmonium by A. Freyer). In 1873, he also published 5 secular works by Moniuszko, entitled Kompozycje pośmiertne. Oeuvres posthumes (containing, among others, three songs), then Polonaise in D minor (first edition in St. Petersburg), and in 1885 — Hymn of St. Stanislaus and the song Skowronek i Słowik (Reszke-Album No. 5). He also published transcriptions of works by Moniuszko and Chopin, as well as music textbooks: Szkoła śpiewu M. Horbowskiego, part 1 (1887), Krótka i łatwa szkółka na fortepian Z. Noskowskiego (1894), and Praktyczna szkoła na skrzypce W. Górskiego (1897). Hoesick published catalogues of his publications (1873, 1874, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886). Up to 1889, he published about 240 books and brochures and over 700 musical scores, many of which he republished after 1890.
Literature: M. Karpińska Słowo wstępne to the new edition of Ferdynard Hoesick’s book Warszawa. Luźne kartki z przeszłości syreniego grodu, Warsaw 2020; M. Lewicki Ferdynand Wilhelm oraz Ferdynand Hoesikowie jako księgarze i wydawcy muzyczni, in: Ferdynand Hoesick junior. Studia pod redakcją Małgorzaty Woźnej-Stankiewicz, Kraków 2020.