Early listings included composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.
[1] Early listings include composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Cherubini, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Carl Maria von Weber, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field and Franz Liszt.
In 1833 Berlioz objected to publication by Hofmeister of an unauthorized four-handed piano version of his Franc-Juges overture, saying "your arranger has butchered my score, clipped its wings, ... and sewn it back up again such that I find a ridiculous monster..."[3] Although Hofmeister maintained friendly as well as professional relations with Liszt for many years, in 1839 his company published a pirated edition of twelve études by Liszt, which led to later disputes with the composer.
In the twentieth century, the company had various owners until its appropriation by East Germany after World War II.
[5] Hofmeister kept the tradition of the publishing the works of new composers, including Harald Banter, Vytautas Barkauskas, Árni Egilsson, Elisenda Fábregas, Christoph Förster, Bernd Franke, Patrick Hagen, Timo Jouko Herrmann, Walter Thomas Heyn, C. René Hirschfeld, Stephan König, Ralf Kubicek, Claus Kühnl, Martin Kürschner, Rainer Lischka, Rafael Lukjanik, Peter Mai, Cecilia McDowall, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Gisbert Näther, Loretta K. Notareschi, Lorenzo Palomo, Hannes Pohlit, Kateřina Růžičková, Stefan Schäfer, Kurt Schwaen, Siegfried Thiele, Karl Ottomar Treibmann, Siegfried Tiefensee, Graham Waterhouse, and Elsa Laura Wolzogen.