Carus-Verlag

Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher headquartered in Stuttgart and founded in 1972 by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife, Waltraud Graulich. The company was established with a strong emphasis on choral repertoire and has developed a catalogue spanning printed scores, vocal music, scholarly and musicological publications, and recordings connected with selected editions. Its publishing profile is particularly associated with music intended for choirs, vocal ensembles, conductors, and performers seeking carefully prepared editions of historical and modern repertoire. A central part of Carus-Verlag's identity is its editorial approach. In addition to issuing individual works and practical performing editions, the publisher has undertaken substantial complete-edition projects. Its catalogue includes standard editions of the complete works of Josef Rheinberger and Max Reger, two composers whose choral, sacred, orchestral, and chamber output requires extensive editorial coverage. These projects place Carus between a practical performance publisher and a scholarly music house: its editions serve working musicians while also supporting historical and musicological study. The catalogue had grown to more than 26,000 works by January 2016, according to the cited reference material. The breadth of this catalogue reflects the company's concentration on choral and vocal music as well as its wider classical repertoire. Carus publications can include scores for full choirs, smaller vocal forces, solo voice, instrumental ensembles, and related educational or reference purposes. The publisher's offerings also extend beyond notation through musicological literature and compact discs. Carus-Verlag has used recordings as companions to some of its printed editions. The company has produced CDs that document or complement repertoire issued in score form, and it has worked on recordings associated with complete-edition projects, including the complete works of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Its recording activity has also covered opera rarities, including Franz Schubert's Sakuntala and Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg's Die Geisterinsel. These projects reinforce the relationship between the company's editorial catalogue and historically informed access to less frequently performed works. The brand is positioned toward professional and advanced amateur choirs, conductors, singers, music educators, researchers, libraries, and listeners interested in historically significant vocal and choral music. Its distinctive value proposition is the combination of specialist repertoire knowledge, substantial editorial projects, practical performance materials, and related recordings. Specific ownership, financial data, executive succession, and a detailed current geographic-market breakdown are not established by the supplied sources.

Carus-Verlag was established in Stuttgart in 1972 by Günter Graulich, a choral conductor, and his wife, Waltraud Graulich. From its foundation, the publisher concentrated on choral music and vocal repertoire, a specialization that distinguished it within the German classical-music publishing sector. Rather than limiting its activity to popular or frequently performed works, Carus built a catalogue oriented toward carefully edited repertoire for choirs, vocal ensembles, soloists, and conductors. Over time, the company expanded from individual performance publications into larger editorial and musicological projects. Its catalogue came to include scholarly and complete editions, as well as books concerned with musicological subjects. The publisher's best-known major editorial commitments include the complete works of Josef Rheinberger and Max Reger. These projects gave Carus a role in preserving, organizing, and disseminating extensive bodies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century repertoire while also supplying usable materials for contemporary performance. By January 2016, the catalogue was reported to contain more than 26,000 works. This scale reflects the company's accumulated activity across choral, vocal, instrumental, sacred, and related classical repertoire. The catalogue's core remained closely tied to music written for voices and choirs, but its complete-edition and musicological work broadened the scope of the business beyond a narrowly defined choral imprint. Carus also developed a recording dimension. The company produced CDs intended to accompany or complement some printed editions. Its recording work included projects connected with the complete works of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It also brought attention to opera rarities such as Schubert's Sakuntala and Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg's Die Geisterinsel. These recordings supported the publisher's wider editorial mission by making comparatively unfamiliar repertoire available in sound as well as in printed notation. The available reference material identifies Carus-Verlag as based in Stuttgart and active as a music publisher, but does not establish detailed information about its current management, ownership, legal structure, revenue, or international sales organization. Consequently, those aspects are left unspecified rather than inferred.

• 2016

  Catalogue exceeds 26,000 works

  [1]Carus-Verlagen.wikipedia.org

  The publisher's catalogue is reported to contain more than 26,000 works as of January 2016.

• 1972

  Carus-Verlag is founded

  [1]Carus-Verlagen.wikipedia.org

  Günter Graulich and Waltraud Graulich establish the music publisher in Stuttgart with a primary emphasis on choral repertoire.

A specialist classical-music publisher serving choirs, conductors, singers, scholars, educators, libraries, and serious listeners through performance editions, complete works, musicological publications, and related recordings.

• Printed music · 1972

  Choral and vocal editions

  Carus-Verlag's core publishing activity consists of scores for choirs, vocal ensembles, solo voices, and related instrumental forces. The repertoire is centered on classical, sacred, choral, and vocal music, with editions designed for practical use by conductors, performers, educators, and ensembles.

• Complete edition

  Josef Rheinberger complete works editions

  Carus-Verlag publishes standard editions associated with the complete works of Josef Rheinberger. The project contributes systematically edited performance and reference materials for the composer's broad output, including repertoire relevant to choral and sacred-music performers.

• Complete edition

  Max Reger complete works editions

  The publisher's catalogue includes standard editions of the complete works of Max Reger. These publications extend Carus-Verlag's role into major scholarly and editorial work while providing performers and researchers with structured access to Reger's repertoire.

• Books and research publications

  Musicological literature

  Alongside scores, Carus-Verlag publishes musicological literature and related books. These materials support study of composers, repertoire, performance practice, and the historical contexts surrounding the works represented in its catalogue.

• CD recordings

  Edition-related classical recordings

  Carus produces CDs that accompany or complement selected printed editions. The recording programme includes work connected with the Wilhelm Friedemann Bach complete-edition project and recordings of opera rarities such as Schubert's Sakuntala and Zumsteeg's Die Geisterinsel.

1. 1Carus-Verlagen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Carus-Verlag official websitecarus-verlag.com
3. 3Günter Graulich Interview - NAMM Oral History Librarynamm.org