Christophorus Records
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Christophorus Records is a German classical music label based originally in Freiburg
specializing in Catholic
church and early music
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The history of the Herder family in publishing in Freiburg goes back to Bartholomä Herder (1774–1839) Fürstbischöflicher Hofbuchhändler und Hofbuchdrucker in 1801. The publishing house of Herder still exists.
The Christian
book publishers Christophorus-Verlag Herder KG. was founded by Hermann Herder und Dr. Josef Knecht in 1935 as a passive resistance to developments in religion in Nazi Germany.
Christophorus Schallplatten began as a part of the picture book division of Christophorus Verlag in 1939. The record label is now distributed by Musicontact GmbH, Heidelberg
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Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
specializing in Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
church and early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
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The history of the Herder family in publishing in Freiburg goes back to Bartholomä Herder (1774–1839) Fürstbischöflicher Hofbuchhändler und Hofbuchdrucker in 1801. The publishing house of Herder still exists.
The Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
book publishers Christophorus-Verlag Herder KG. was founded by Hermann Herder und Dr. Josef Knecht in 1935 as a passive resistance to developments in religion in Nazi Germany.
Christophorus Schallplatten began as a part of the picture book division of Christophorus Verlag in 1939. The record label is now distributed by Musicontact GmbH, Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
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