The company was founded in 1994 by who planned to publish contemporary music, literature and rarely recorded piece (
Nischenrepertoire), but also to present classical music in a new sound. Cybele published "portraits" of contemporary composers such as
Peter-Jan Wagemans and
Graham Waterhouse, both in 2001. In 2004 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with a CD of works by various artists and composers. They then began to publish
Hörbücher (
audiobooks) in a series
Künstler im Gespräch, with
Mirjam Wiesemann talking to artists about their music. In 2009 the label was awarded the
ECHO Classic for the audio book
Die Prinzessin – Kindergeschichten, geschrieben und gesprochen von Arnold Schönberg. The edition of audio books received several awards, including in 2011 the prize for "Beste verlegerische Leistung" (best editorial achievement) of the
Deutscher Hörbuchpreis. In 2009 Cybele recorded a first volume of
Piano Works During & After Russian Futurism, played by Thomas Günther, including works by Nikolai Obuchov,
Ivan Wyschnegradsky and
Sergei Protopopov. A second volume followed in 2014, with works by Arthur Vincent Lourie and Protopopov. In 2016 they published the complete organ works of
Max Reger, played by
Martin Schmeding on thirteen different organs from the composer's time; the recording was selected as "recording of the month" (October) by MusicWeb International. ==See also==