Music publisher Dr. J. Butz
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| legal form | one-man business |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat | Bonn - Beuel |
| management | Hans-Peter Bähr |
| Branch | Music industry |
| Website | www.butz-verlag.de |
The music publisher Dr. J. Butz is a publishing house for vocal and organ music based in Bonn-Beuel .
Publishing history
The music publisher was founded in 1924 by the Bonn composer , organist and musicologist Josef Butz, initially as a pure choral music publisher in Bad Godesberg . By 1940 Josef Butz had success with his own compositions, which were reflected in first performances at the Singers Association Weeks and radio awards. Butz's oeuvre includes 21 masses and more than 200 songs and motets . In 1940 the publishing house refused to join the NSDAP , whereupon the paper allocation was cut and later completely blocked and the printing plates were melted down . After the end of the war, publishing was resumed and the choir program was constantly expanded.
In 1983 the publishing house moved from Bad Godesberg to Meindorf near Bonn. In the following year he was taken over by Josef Butz (jr.), The son of the publisher's founder, who in particular pushed the recording of larger choral works (e.g. orchestral masses) and the expansion of the organ music area, initially with a focus on German and French organ romanticism. In the 1990s , other program sections such as solo singing, organ with solo instrument (s), or organ and orchestra were opened. In 1999 Josef Butz (jr.) Died in the 75th anniversary year of the publishing house, the following year musicologist and organist Hans-Peter Bähr took over the publishing business.
In 2000, the French publisher Éditions Publimuses began the exclusive distribution for Germany , Austria and Switzerland ; two years later, the complete organ catalog of the Belgian publisher Éditions Chantraine, the improvisations of the Parisian Notre Dame organist Pierre Cochereau (1924–1984 ), integrated into the company's own publishing program. The entire book inventory of the Musikwissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft (Walcker Foundation) was also taken over. In 2005 the music publisher Dr. J. Butz first own books. In 2008 the company moved from Sankt Augustin to Bonn-Beuel and in 2010 the children's choir division was opened.
Alignment
Butz-Verlag's primary group of interested parties includes choir directors and organists , for whom it provides versatile literature for church services, concerts and lessons. The publishing program includes the areas of sacred and secular choral music , solo singing , organ music from the 17th century to the present, as well as books, a total of around 2,880 titles (as of 2017). In addition to numerous first editions and revised reprints of music, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries, the collaboration with contemporary composers and arrangers is a focus of today's ecumenical publishing program.
Butz-Verlag is the German main publisher of the English composers Colin Mawby (1936–2019), Robert Jones (* 1945) and Christopher Tambling (1964–2015).