Carus-Verlag

Carus is a music publisher based in Leinfelden near Stuttgart. The Carus -Verlag is one of the world's largest providers of sacred vocal music, and was founded in 1972. In addition to the scores and CDs are laid under the label Carus.

History

The Carus -Verlag is a leading German music publisher in the field of so-called serious music and was founded in Stuttgart in 1972 by Günter and Waltraud Grayish. The original idea was the development of sacred vocal works that were accessible or only in insufficient in the scores. Over time, the publisher was able to constantly enlarge and expand its publishing program. In 1992, the classic touch area of ​​the Haenssler Verlag was taken. Today, the Carus -Verlag has about 50 employees and more than 28,000 available spending one of the largest provider of vocal music.

Publishing program

The central issues of the Carus -Verlag, resulting in co-operation with leading musicologists (eg Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Max -Reger -Institut Karlsruhe ) meet both scientific and practical musical claims. In the center of the publishing program focuses on the Stuttgart editions of works by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach family, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.

The complete edition of the Liechtenstein composer Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was completed in 2009, with over 50 volumes. Together with the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini in Lucca Carus works with other publishers on the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini.

In addition to these priorities publishing but can also be found relatively unknown composers from the Renaissance to the present in the program, which are laid in numerous editions. In addition, the choir and choir collections books are available with which the offer is completed for choirs of any kind.

The publishing program includes sacred music, many issues in the field of instrumental music and children's choir and school of art and music (eg, the publications of the publishing house Beethoven -Haus Bonn and the Max -Reger -Institut ). Many of the displaced in the Note Program works have been published in the publisher's own label Carus on CD. Again, the emphasis is on musical rarities, which so far there are no recordings. Among the performers and ensembles can be found eg Dresden Kreuz Choir, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bernius and Frieder Hans -Christoph Rademann.

2009, jointly launched with SWR2 the songs project, a charity project for singing with children in the life of the Carus -Verlag.

Since the existence of the publisher of the Carus -Verlag received for his sheet music and on CD are many important prizes and awards: " German Music Edition Prize", " Prize of the German Record Critics ." For the publication and distribution of works by Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann Prize, the publisher receives 2009.

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