Spina, Carl Anton

SPINA, Carl Anton. The successor of the Diabellis in that famous publishing house at Vienna, which for so long stood in the Graben, No. 1133, at the corner of the Bräunerstrasse. He succeeded them in 1852, and was himself succeeded by F. Schreiber in July 1872. During this twenty years Spina's activity showed itself especially in the publication of Schubert's works, a mass of whose MSS. he acquired from Diabelli. Chief among these were the Octet, Quintet in C,...