Artaria and company was one of the most important music publishing firms of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. Founded in the eighteenth century in Vienna, the company is associated with many leading names of the classical era. History Artaria and company was founded by the eponymous Carlo Artaria in 1765 in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Originally a specialty publisher of maps, the company had expanded its business to include music by the mid 1770s. Its most… (More on Artaria)