Carus-Verlag was founded by Günther and Waltraud Graulich in Stuttgart in 1972. Since its inception Carus represents high-quality choral repertoire. The editions by Carus offer choirs worldwide a carefully edited, authoritative foundation for rehearsals and successful concerts. Since Carus was founded it has always been a particular interest of ours to make the music publishing program alive and audible, and to release first-class recordings of works on an own label. With carus music, the choir app, this idea has been developed further for mobile devices.
With more then 45.000 choral works available Carus has developed to become one of the leading music publishers of vocal music worldwide. Today the company houses around 60 colleagues in the editorial offices, production, CD label, marketing, sales and distribution. Nevertheless Carus still remains a family enterprise. Dr. Johannes Graulich is the current head of Carus, the company which his parents founded.