{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Gramola | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | parent = | founded = {{Start date|1924}} | founder = | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY}} --> | status = Active | distributor = | genre = Classical music | country = Austria | location = Vienna | website = {{URL|https://www.gramola.at}} }} [[File:Graben 16 Gramola.jpg|thumb|Gramola's record store and original store on Graben in the heart of Vienna, located on the bottom right with the dark red façade.]] '''Gramola''' is an Austrian music company based in Vienna. It was founded in 1924, as an offshoot of the British-Czech record producer of the same name.<ref name="Gramola">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramola.at/stories/%C3%BCber-gramola|title=Über Gramola|website=Gramola.at|date=2022-11-21|access-date=2025-07-21|language=de}}</ref>
The company is the oldest record store in Austria and operates as a family business in the fourth generation.<ref name="Gramola" />
The Austrian Gramola focuses on classical music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/alsergrund/c-lokales/gramola-am-graben-oesterreichs-aeltestes-tontraegergeschaeft_a2218781|title=Gramola am Graben: Österreichs ältestes Tonträgergeschäft|author=Ulrike Kozeschnik-Schlick|website=Meinbezirk.at|date=2017-09-12 |access-date=2025-07-21|language=de}}</ref> It initially focused on Austrian composers and foreign composers living in Austria such as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert. However, nowadays the company works on CD production and the promotion of young Austrian musicians, or foreign musicians currently living in Austria.<ref name="Gramola"/>
Gramola has up to 70 new releases annually, predominantly of Austrian artists. Gramola currently collaborates with Exilarte, an organization dedicated to the reception, research, and preservation of works by Austrian composers and musicologists who were persecuted, exiled, or murdered during the National Socialism era.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exilarte.org/das-zentrum|title=Mission Statement des Exilarte Zentrum|website=Exilarte.org|publisher=University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna|access-date=2025-07-21|language=de}}</ref>
In 2024, the Austrian national public broadcaster ORF reported on the 100th anniversary of the company, which has since made an international name for itself and has recordings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20240301/750561/Intrada-Oesterreichs-Musizierende-im-Portraet|title=Intrada - Österreichs Musizierende im Porträt|website=ORF|date=2024-03-01|access-date=2025-07-21|language=de}}</ref>
== List of Gramola artists == * Walter Arlen * Paul Badura-Skoda * Ulf Bästlein * Joachim Brügge * Ammiel Bushakevitz * Constantinos Carydis * Rafael Catalá * Dora Deliyska * Jörg Demus * Elena Denisova * Norbert Ernst * Adrian Eröd * Günther Groissböck * Glenn Gould * Friedrich Gulda * Rico Gulda * Pavel Haas * David Helbock * Paul Hertel * Anastasia Huppmann * Ádám Jávorkai * Herbert von Karajan * Alexei Kornienko * Michael Korstick * Nikolaus Newerkla * Andreas Ottensamer * Michael Publig * Martin Scherber * Thomas Daniel Schlee * Daniel Schmutzhard * Paul Schweinester * Clemens Unterreiner * Nataša Veljković * Gerrit Wunder
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== External links == {{Commonscat|Gramola (company)|Gramola}} {{Official}} {{in lang|de}}
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Category:Classical music record labels Category:Austrian independent record labels Category:Austrian companies established in 1924 Category:Austrian music industry Category:Companies based in Vienna
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