Artaria

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Artaria & Co. (Italian pronunciation:

music publishing firms of the late 18th and 19th century. Founded in the 18th century in Vienna, the company is associated with many leading names of the classical era
.

History

Artaria & Co. was founded as a publishing house for art and maps by

string quartets (such as the Opus 33), which were a popular seller.[4]
The value of Haydn's works helped push Artaria to the top of the music publishing world in the late 18th century.

This important relationship helped Artaria secure the rights to the works of other important classical composers such as Luigi Boccherini and, most notably, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[5]

During his lifetime, Artaria was Mozart's principal publisher, although after his death this passed to the German house of

Große Fuge in 1827.[7]

The dispute with Beethoven highlights the role the company played in helping determine early copyright laws. Voluminous correspondence is extant between Artaria and its clients regarding ownership and royalty of editions as well as piracy concerns.

Artaria continued to be a leading publisher through the 19th century, until it finally ceased its music publication business in the twentieth century. Its cartographic publishing was acquired by Freytag & Berndt [de] in 1920 and the Artaria publishing house was dissolved in 1932. The art dealership closed in 2012.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Artarìa nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Artarìa - Sapere.it". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. ^ Witeschnik, Alexander (1953). "Artaria, Carlo". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 1. p. 400.
  4. ^ Gretchen A. Wheelock, "Engaging Strategies in Haydn's Opus 33 String Quartets", in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 1–30
  5. Royal Holloway
    , University of London, 1999
  6. ^ Donald W. MacArdle, "Beethoven, Artaria, and the C Major Quintet", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 1948), pp. 567–574
  7. ^ Witeschnik, Alexander (1953). "Artaria, Matthias". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 1. p. 401.

Notable editions

  • Ridgewell, Rupert M.: "Artaria's music shop and Boccherini's music in Viennese musical life"; Early Music – Volume 33, Number 2, May 2005, pp. 179–189

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