Former Peters Music Library

The Peters Music Library was founded by Max Abraham, the owner of the music publisher C.F. Peters. The world's first public specialist library was opened at Königstraße 26 (now Goldschmidtstraße) at the beginning of 1894. It was also unique in the world that women were also allowed to use the library.

After Abraham's death, the library was, according to his will, donated to the city of Leipzig. After the Reichsprogromnacht in 1938, his nephew and successor, the Jew Henri Hinrichsen, was banned from his profession forced sale and the "Aryanization" of the publishing house followed. Hinrichsen was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the end of the Second World War, Hinrichsen's son Walter, now an American citizen, received the publishing house and the Peters library back. Since 1954, the collection has been kept with the city's existing music collection in the Municipal Music Library.