In addition to the publishing houses of Panton, Ars-Viva, Ernst Eulenburg, Fürstner, Cranz, Atlantis Musikbuch and Hohner-Verlag, the Schott group also includes two recording labels, Wergo (for new music) and Intuition (for Jazz), as well as eight specialist magazines.

The publishing program included works by composers from the Mannheim School such as Carl Stamitz and Georg Joseph Vogler, as well as virtuoso ballroom music and comic operas.

The publication of the piano scores and first editions of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Entführung aus dem Serail were among the highlights of its early history.

The catalogue therefore included names such as Adolphe Adam and Daniel Auber as well as Gaetano Donizetti, Ignaz Pleyel, Elise Rondonneau,[6] H. Servier, and Gioacchino Rossini.

[4] Schott's prestigious 20th century publishing programme, now known as Music of Our Time, was initiated by the publication of works by Igor Stravinsky, a close friend of Willi and Ludwig Strecker for many years.

Michael Tippett's lifelong relationship with Schott began in March 1939 when Willy Strecker visited London for the first (concert) performance in England of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler.

Shortly after war had been declared, he heard through their London office that Schott would like to publish his Concerto for Double String Orchestra and an early Piano Sonata.

György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alexander Goehr, Aribert Reimann, and Else Schmitz-Gohr have all been published exclusively by Schott for more than thirty years.

This close collaboration continues to support the work of many distinguished composers including Henri Dutilleux, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Peter Eötvös, Chaya Czernowin, Joe Duddell, Moritz Eggert, Mary Finsterer, Kenneth Hesketh, Christian Jost, Tatjana Komarova, Nicholas Lens, Olli Mustonen, Benjamin Schweitzer, Jörg Widmann and Lei Liang.