Schwann was a German

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record label based in

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and originally connected with the Verlag Schwann publishing house. One of the first records in 1962 was an LP of musical examples to accompany a book on medieval music. The book publishing business of Verlag Schwann is now part of

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. The record company made a number of recordings in cooperation with Abbot

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, and the Schwann Musica Mundi series with

Musique en Wallonie Musique en Wallonie is a Francophone-Belgian classical music record label founded in 1971 dedicated to promoting awareness of Wallonia's musical heritage – both of Wallon composers and historical classical music recordings. The record label, base ...

. Director Dieter Heuler was the director of Schwann both as part of Verlag Schwann,Journal of the Conductors' Guild - Volume 6 - Page 88 American Symphony Orchestra League - 1985 "Reznicek symphony ....... Earlier I had been met at the airport by Dieter Heuler, director of Schwann Records. He explained to me that the engineer is really the man in charge. Recklinghausen was a medieval city, now a mixture of old and new." and also after its acquisition by

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in 1988 when it was renamed Koch-Schwann. In 2002 Universal Classics acquired Koch-Schwann's catalogue and some of the Schwann and Koch-Schwann recordings began to reappear on

Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...

's budget Eloquence imprint. Heuler retained Schwann's VMS signature, and several uncompleted projects.

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