Artaria

Artaria & Co. was the name of an art and music shop and also a publisher, who played an important role as an art, maps, and especially music publisher in Vienna of the 18th and 19th centuries.

History

1765 founded the Italian-born family Artaria under the name " Giov. Artaria et Comp. " One publisher in Mainz. Due to younger family members in 1770 in the " Zornischen House" in Vienna, the art shop " Artaria & Comp. " Founded in 1774 and opened its own music publishing. As of 1789, the company headquarters was located at the carbon market 9 in Vienna ( 1901/ 02 there was the still -standing so-called Artaria - house built ). This gained rapid fame by recording more than 300 works of Haydn. As a consequence, works by Gluck were Mozart ( 1781 ), Beethoven (from 1793) and Schubert included in the published list. Partner from 1793 to 1798 was also the Italians Tranquillo Mollo, who was a private art publisher in Vienna very well known from 1798.

In the second half of the 19th century, the activity of Artaria shifted increasingly on maps, for which a collaboration with Joseph von Scheda was the basis and the publisher Artaria also sold products of the Military Geographic Institute and its employees, such as was the general map of Greece and the European Turkey published by Artaria. However, it published by Artaria 1894-1918 nor the " Monuments of Music in Austria " ( a series of publications, the representative works of the Austrian music history was ). 1920 was the cartographic part in Publishing Freytag & Berndt, now renamed Freytag- Berndt & Artaria KG on. 1932, the publisher Artaria was dissolved. The art dealer Artaria & Co., which mainly focused on printmaking, was closed in late 2012.

In the transition from the 18th to the 19th century have hardly considered copyright of the composers in their own works became increasingly regulated and formulated. Artaria, counting in this time of Europe's leading music publishers, a major role came to. That this was not smooth, for example, to extensive litigation Beethoven significantly with Artaria in connection with the String Quintet in C major, Op 29, which led to the process ( lost Beethoven in 1805, after which he largely ceased its connection to Artaria ).