Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

. Carus was founded by choral conductor

Günter Graulich Günter Graulich (born 2 July 1926)Klaus Hofmann: Carus-Verlag. In Ludwig Finscher (edit.): ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Second edition, Sachteil, volume 2 (Bolero – Encyclopedie). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel u. a. 1995, Online-Au ...

and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. The catalogue currently includes more than 26,000 works (January 2016). The company produces the standard editions of the complete works of

Josef Rheinberger Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (17 March 1839 – 25 November 1901) was a Liechtensteiner organist and composer, residing in Bavaria for most of his life. Life Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, whose father was the treasurer for Aloys II, Prince of Liecht ...

and

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

.''Harald Wanger, Rheinberger-Archivar, Organist, Pädagoge'' Harald Wanger, Franz-Georg Rössler, Robert Allgäuer - 2003 p. 48 Carus-Verlag, Musikalische Schätze abseits bekannter Pfade - Harald Wanger und der Carus-Verlag "Für den Carus-Verlag ist die Verbindung zu Harald Wanger und dem Josef Rheinberger-Archiv ein Glücksfall."

Record label

The company also produces CDs to accompany some of its printed editions. Currently the publishers are working on recordings accompanying the complete editions of

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 17101 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer. Despite his acknowledged genius as an organist, improviser and composer ...

. Opera rarities include

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

's ''

Sakuntala Shakuntala (Sanskrit: ''Śakuntalā'') is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Bharata (Mahabharata), Emperor Bharata. Her story is told in the ''Adi Parva'' of the ancient Indian epic ''Mahabharata'' and dramatized by many writers, the mos ...

'' and

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (10 January 1760 – 27 January 1802) was a German composer and conductor. Zumsteeg championed the operas of Mozart in Stuttgart, staging the first performances there of '' Die Zauberflöte,'' ''Don Giovanni,'' and '' ...

's '' Die Geisterinsel''.

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Gunter Graulich Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2004)
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