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Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon
"crown of tulips", designed by Siemens advertising consultant Hans Domizlaff. In 1962 Siemens formed a joint venture with Netherlands based Philips to create the DGG/PPI Record Group, which became The PolyGram Group in 1972. Deutsche Grammophon were owners of the Beatles’ first record label, Polydor Records. Universal Music Group Parent Deutsche Grammophon pioneered the incompany troduction of the compact disc to the mass market, debuting classical music performed 1898 Founded by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin PhilEmile Berliner Founder harmonic for sale in the new medium in Distributing Deutsche Grammophon Records (in 1983, the first recording being Richard the U.S. and U.K.) label Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie. DGG/Polydor’s entrance into the US marClassical Music Genre ket in 1969 came at a time when the big US Germany Country of classical labels -- Columbia (Masterworks) origin and RCA (Red Seal and Victor) were caving in http://www.deutschegrammophon.com to the pop culture, dropping their ’unlucOfficial website rative’ classical artists, and making bad pressings. The fine quality both of recording Deutsche Grammophon is a German clasand of pressings helped DGG especially sucsical record label, now part of the Universal ceed and attract Arthur Fiedler and the BoMusic Group. The company has long been ston Pops Orchestra to DGG/Polydor. In 1987 known for its high standards of audio fidelity. Siemens sold off its interest in PolyGram, and It is also UMG’s oldest active label. Philips became the majority shareholder. In 1998 Seagram Company Ltd of Canada purchased Deutsche Grammophon and Polygram. Since then Deutsche Grammophon has The Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft was been merged into the Universal Music Group, founded in 1898 by German-born United a division of Vivendi. States citizen Emile Berliner as the German Deutsche Grammophon has a huge back branch of his Berliner Gramophone Comcatalogue of notable recordings. The company. Based in the city of Hannover (the pany currently is reissuing a portion of it founder’s birthplace), the company had links with the indication Originals. Originals comwith the U.S. Victor Talking Machine Compact disc releases are noted for their vinyl repany and the British Gramophone Company, cord stylized design. They are also releasing but those links were severed at the onset of some of American Decca Records’ albums World War I. from the 1940s and ’50’s, such as those that In 1941 Deutsche Grammophon was purLeonard Bernstein made for Decca in 1953, chased by the Siemens & Halske electronics and the classic Christmas album which feacompany. tures Ronald Colman starring in A Christmas In 1945 as part of Germany’s surrender Carol and Charles Laughton narrating Mr. terms ending World War II, Deutsche GramPickwick’s Christmas. Along with the Americmophon forfeited its rights to the His an Decca Records classical music catalogue, Master’s Voice trademark to EMI. The dog Deutsche Grammophon also manages the and gramophone were replaced by the classical music catalogue of ABC Records including Westminster Records.
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Although Deutsche Grammophon acquired the reputation of releasing mainstream classical recordings, from the 1960s onwards it released several avant garde recordings (initially under the ’Avant Garde’ imprint), including Bruno Maderna, David Bedford, Cornelius Cardew, Luigi Nono and improvisations. It also released the majority of the compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen until the composer bought the rights to the recordings and re-released them under his own label. Other German composers associated with the label included Paul Hindemith and Hans Werner Henze. Contemporary composers whose works have been released by Deutsche
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Grammophon include Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Mark Anthony Turnage, Peter Eötvös and Philip Glass. The conductor most associated with the label is Herbert von Karajan. Other conductors under contract have included Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado and Christian Thielemann. A more recent signing has been Gustavo Dudamel.
External links
• Official site
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Record of Emile Berliner’s Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Made 1908 in Hannover, Germany
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