Dr. J. Butz is a music publishing house in

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-Beuel, Germany, focused on sacred vocal music and organ music. The publisher is the representative in Germany of English composers such as

Colin Mawby Colin Mawby KSG (9 May 1936 – 24 November 2019) was an English organist, choral conductor and composer. From 1961 he was Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, then from 1981 he was the choral director at Radio Telefís Éireann. He co ...

, Christopher Tambling and Robert Jones.

History

The composer, organist, musicologist and pedagogue founded the publishing house in

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in 1924, first strictly for choral music. Butz was successful until 1940 with his own compositions which were performed at and earned prizes from broadcasters. They included 21 masses and more than 200 songs and motets. When he refused to become a member of the

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, paper supplies were first reduced and later withdrawn completely. After World War II, the company reopened. In 1983 the publisher moved from Bad Godesberg to Meindorf. The following year the founder's son, Josef Butz Jr, took over. He introduced the publication of major choral works such as masses with orchestra, as well as organ music, concentrating on German and French Romantic organ music. During the 1990s, additional genres were added, such as solo songs and works for organ and other instruments or orchestra. When Josef Butz Jr died in 1999, he was succeeded by the musicologist and organist Hans-Peter Bähr. The publisher began in 2000 to supply exclusively editions of the French publisher Éditions Publimuses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2002, the complete organ catalogue of the Belgian publisher Éditions Chantraine was added, which includes the recorded improvisations by the organist at

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Pierre Cochereau Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau (9 July 1924 – 6 March 1984) was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue. Cochereau was titular organist of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1955 to his death in 1984 and was responsibl ...

. The complete books of the Musikwissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft (Walcker foundation) were also included. In 2005 the house began to publish books. They moved to Bonn-Beuel in 2008 and added music for children's choirs in 2010.

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Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag
Deutsche Musikinformationszentrum
An Interview with Colin Mawby
Contemporary Music Centre 1 Dec 2006 {{authority control Dr. J. Butz Dr. J. Butz Mass media in Bonn 1924 establishments in Germany Publishing companies established in 1924