Artaria
| Artaria & Co. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Part of Freytag & Berndt |
| founding | 1770 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | publishing company |
Artaria & Co. was the name of an art and music shop and at the same time a publisher that played an important role as an art, map and especially music publisher in Vienna in the 18th and 19th centuries.
history
In 1765, the Artaria family from Italy founded under the name “Giov. Artaria et Comp. ”A publishing house in Mainz . Younger family members opened the art shop “Artaria & Comp.” In the “Zornisches Haus” in Vienna in 1770 and founded their own music publishing company in 1774. From 1789 the company was located at Kohlmarkt 9 in Vienna (the so-called Artaria House was built there in 1901/02 ). He quickly achieved fame through the inclusion of more than 300 works by Haydn . As a result, works by Gluck , Boccherini (from 1780), Mozart (from 1781), Beethoven (from 1793) and Schubert were included in the publishing program. Another partner from 1793 to 1798 was the Italian Tranquillo Mollo , who became very well known in Vienna from 1798 with his own art publisher. With Domenico Artaria the company had a sole owner for the first time in 1804.
In the second half of the 19th century, Artaria's activities increasingly shifted to maps, for which a collaboration with Joseph von Scheda was the basis and the Artaria publishing house also sold products of the Military Geographic Institute and its employees, for example the general map of Greece and the European Turkey relocated to Artaria. However, Artaria published the "Monuments of Music Art in Austria" (a series of publications that were representative works of Austrian music history) from 1894–1918. In 1920 the cartographic part went to the Freytag & Berndt publishing house , now renamed Freytag-Berndt & Artaria KG. In 1932 the Artaria publishing house was dissolved. The art dealer Artaria & Co., which mainly dealt with printmaking , was closed at the end of 2012.
In the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, the composers' copyright , which had previously hardly been taken into account, was increasingly regulated and formulated in their own works. Artaria, at that time one of the leading European music publishers, played an important role. That this did not go smoothly becomes clear, for example, in the protracted disputes between Beethoven and Artaria in connection with the string quintet in C major op.29 , which led to the trial (which Beethoven lost in 1805, whereupon he largely ceased his connection with Artaria).
literature
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Artaria. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 . * János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK Hof Lieferanten Wiens . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 86-89.
- Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon , 1st volume. Schott Mainz, Piper Munich, 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8301-1
- Rosemary Hilmar: The music publisher Artaria & Comp. History and Problems of Print Production . Schneider, Tutzing 1977. ISBN 3-7952-0211-6
- Karl Friedrich Pfau : Artaria, Carlo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 59.
- August Artaria †. In: Österreichisch-Ungarische Buchdrucker-Zeitung , vol. 51, December 21, 1893, p. 527 ( ANNO , brief outline of the company's history).
