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aus: Messe in D op. 86, 1887
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Antonín Dvorák
| 1841-1904Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), next to Smetana and Janacek the most important exponent of specifically Czech music, now ranks (also in general) as one of the most popular composers of the nineteenth century. The son of a butcher-innkeeper in the Bohemian town of Nelahozeves (Mühlhausen) near Kralup, he first became known in his homeland for his patriotic hymn "The Heirs of the White Mountain" for chorus and orchestra, op.30, that he wrote in 1872. His road out into the world was opened by a commission consisting of Johannes Brahms, Eduard Hanslick and Johann von Herbeck, that selected him for an Austrian government stipend. Brahms, who was seven years the elder, took a friendly interest in his younger colleague whose eminent talent he had recognized and had come to admire. (Brahms: "That fellow has more ideas than all of us together. Every other composer could cull main themes from what he throws away.") Brahms recommended Dvo"rák to his Berlin publisher, Simrock, who later became Dvo"rák's chief publisher though he was obstinate and at first quite difficult. International fame came to Dvo"rák as a composer and – beginning in 1884 – as conductor of his own works mainly through his sensational successes in England (he went there for lengthy sojourns a total of nine times) and in the United States (two long visits spent in teaching and composing). His success was sparked chiefly by a sacred work, his Stabat Mater that was written in 1876 (Carus 27.293/03). Right until his late period, church music was never missing from the list of his important compositions: the symphonic poems, the operas (among them "Rusalka"), the symphonies, the string quartets and other chamber music works, the oratorio "St. Ludmila" - and the Slavonic Dances op.46 and op.72. To the Stabat Mater op.58 (1876/77) mentioned above, he added the "149th Psalm" op.79 (1879/87), the Requiem op.89 (1890) (Carus 27.323) and the Te Deum op.103 (1892) (Carus 27.189). Personal details
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Günter Graulich
| 1926The publisher, church musician and teacher Günter Graulich is one of the major personalities in German publishing of the post-war period. With his wife Waltraud he founded Carus-Verlag Stuttgart in 1972, which he built up from a 2-person family firm to a medium-sized business with around 60 employees. A trained church musician and Kantor for many years at the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart, he also directed the Motettenchor Stuttgart for 50 years. With his choir he made LP and CD recordings, and undertook numerous concert tours to other European countries and America. Personal details
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Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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