Josef Blaha

Typical Blaha cover (1890s)
Karl Lorens Couplet cover 1890s
Karl Kratzl Couplet cover 1898

Contents

History

Groscher and Blaha published popular music in Vienna from 1882. The firm became Josef Blaha in 1889.

The catalogue was vast, numbering 600 items in 20 years (1882 to 1902). The works were mainly short, of two types. There were firstly songs, mainly Viennese dialect comic songs known as couplets, by Karl Kratzl, Carl Lorens, Josef Modl, M.W. Pressburg, Rosenzweig, and Johann Muller. The second group was dances or marches, mainly for piano, by Drescher and Karel Komzák II. In addition there were some piano or violin and piano pieces of the Salon-stuck type by J.E. Hummel.

After the World War I, business declined, and the firm was taken over by Universal Edition in 1924, but then sold to Bosworth in 1939.

Imprints, Addresses, Agencies

Imprints

  • Josef Blaha

Addresses

  • Vienna

Plate Numbers

  • Blaha's plate numbers are generally in the format J.B. #### (the J.B. is omitted below until and unless counterexamples are found.) Dates in italics are estimated.
Plate Composer Work Year
0704 Komzák II Fideles Wien, Op.190
0707–08 Sprowacker Das wird dir keine Rosen bringen 1892
0824 Müller 's Weanakind 1893
0874 Drescher Graf Larisch Polka, Op.134
1177 Wunderer Trompeter-Marsch, Op.122
1566 Komzák II Elizabeth Walzer, Op.239 1897
1786 Komzák II Bad'ner Mad'ln Walzer, Op.257 1898
1808 Kratzl Das Glück is a Vogerl, Op.501 1899
2248–49 Sioly Die Flitterwochen, Op.433 1901
2261 Lorens Das muss ein reizender Zauber sein
2646 Komzák II Die schönen Tage, Op.231
2649 Komzák II D'Helenenthaler Galopp, Op.273
3076 Modl Im Himmel is herrlich
3551 Drescher Bei Sang und Klang, Op.315 1911
6453 Bass Wellenspiel 1926
6454 Bass Biedermeier Gavotte No.3 1926
6641–45 Bass 5 Altwiener Stimmungsbilder im Biedermeierstyle 1929

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