August Cranz

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Contents 1 History 2 Offices 3 External Links 4 Plate Numbers

History

The company was founded in 1814 in Hamburg. The company bought publisher Friedrich Schreiber in 1879 after a fusion in 1876 - becoming the main publisher of the Strauß family. The Schreiber purchase included the older Viennese catalogues of Diabelli & Cappi, C.A. Spina, and Mechetti. Offices were opened in Brussels (1883) and in London (1890). In 1897 the headquarters were moved to Leipzig, the same year in which August Alwin Cranz (Hamburg 1834 - Vevey 1923) took over his father's company.

Famous names of the house include Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Clara Schumann, Max Bruch.

Offices

• Hamburg: Aug. Cranz (1814-1897)
• Vienna: A. Cranz (1879-19??)
• Brussels: A. Cranz (1883-????)
• London: Cranz & Co., Ltd. (1890-????)
• Leipzig: Aug. Cranz (1897-1952)
• Mainz: Musikverlag Cranz (after 1950)
• Wiesbaden: Aug. Cranz KG (1949-????)

External Links

• Staatsarchiv Leipzig - German
• Kunstbus: Anton Diabelli - Dutch
• August Alwin Cranz biography

Plate Numbers

Note: Cranz imprints with plate numbers bearing prefixes of C.S. or F.S. are reissues of items originally published by C.A. Spina (1852-1876) and their successor Friedrich Schreiber (1876-1879). The Diabelli-Spina-Schreiber catalogue was more than 22,000 titles when absorbed by Cranz in 1879.

Plate	Composer	Work	Year
5316	Reinecke	Piano Quintet, Op.83	(1870)
C.S. 9440	Ernst	Grand Caprice sur ‘Le Roi des Aulnes’ de Franz Schubert, Op.26	(1854)
11825	Leschetizky	2 Pieces for Piano, Op.2	(1880)
C.S. 22076	Rubinstein	Piano Concerto No.2, Op.35	(1875)
C. 27922	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Kiss Waltz'	(1900)
C. 27955	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Tales from the Vienna Woods'	(1900)
C. 40942	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'The Blue Danube'	(1910)
C. 40987	Schulz-Evler	Arabesken über 'An der Schönen Blauen Donau' von Johann Strauss	(1910)
C. 41524	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Wine, Wife and Song'	(1910)
C. 41526	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Vienna Blood'	(1910)
C. 41527	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Roses from the South'	(1910)
C. 42052	Ernst	Études pour le violon à plusieurs parties	(1911)
C. 42334	Schütt	Paraphrase on J.Strauss' waltz motives from 'Roses from the South'	(1910)
C. 43168	Godowsky	Symphonic Metamorphosis on J. Strauss's 'Künstlerleben'	1912
C. 43169	Godowsky	Symphonic Metamorphosis on J. Strauss's 'Die Fledermaus'	(1912)*
C. 43170	Godowsky	Symphonic Metamorphosis on J. Strauss's 'Wein, Weib und Gesang'	1912
C. 45168	Schubert	Symphony No.8, D.759	(1915)
C. 45601	Sinding	5 Klavierstücke, Op.128	1926

* The 1965 copyright claim is a scarecrow notice.