Éditions Alphonse Leduc
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Parent company | Wise Music Group |
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Founded | 1841 |
Country of origin | France |
Headquarters location | Paris |
Publication types | Sheet music |
Fiction genres | Classical music |
Official website | www |
The Éditions Alphonse Leduc company is a prominent French
History
Éditions Alphonse Leduc is a family business that has been passed down from father to son over five generations. The family is originally from
The family musical origins began in Arnay-le-Duc in Burgundy and its first musician, Antoine Girard. Girard was a violinist who left his father's weaving shop to turn his attention to art. His son Charles Girard, who was born in Arnay-le-Duc in 1754, moved to Nantes and was the first full-time musician. The Girards were a large family and its Nantes branch added Leduc to its name, taken from its place of origin Arnay-le-Duc. From then on all of the Girards of this branch were known as Girard-Leduc, and often, for the sake of simplification in business, just Leduc.
Alphonse Leduc
Alphonse Leduc, teacher, composer, student and
Absorbed companies
Éditions Alphonse Leduc have absorbed a number of publishing companies during their existence, in recent years B.G., Bornemann, C.Y., Gras,
They are non-exclusive in France for P.W.M. (sales) and Suvini-Zerboni (sales) and non-exclusive worldwide for U.M.P. (sales)(except U.K. and U.S.A.).
Through Diffusion BIM, Alphonse Leduc also distributes internationally the brass music of all publishers worldwide.
Alphonse Leduc and its subsidiary company Heugel have taken control of the well-known American music publishing and distribution company King Music, thus becoming a group of international scope.
Heugel
The history of the publishing house Heugel dates back to 1839 when Jacques Léopold Heugel became the associate of the music publisher Jean-Antoine Meissonnier. They acquired a periodical, Le Ménestrel, which had been founded in 1833 and was issued until 1940. Their association ended in 1842 when Heugel took over sole control. Léopold Heugel was succeeded on his death in 1883 by his son Henri, since when the company remained in the family until it was bought by Leduc in 1980.
The Heugel catalogue includes all musical genres, both French and international, in particular
Hamelle
Hamelle was founded in 1877 by Julien Hamelle who had taken over the catalogue of Maho, a company founded in 1851. Julien Hamelle directed the firm until his death in 1917, when he was succeeded by his son Georges-Edgard. The catalogue, acquired and now distributed by Éditions Leduc, includes an important collection of piano music. Hamelle also published works of Édouard Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Pierné, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles-Marie Widor, and in particular, those of Gabriel Fauré (Requiem, Élégie, Pavane, as well as the famous Mélodies etc.).
Present day
The fifth generation is represented by François Leduc (Claude's son) and Basile Crichton (the nephew of Claude and Gilbert Leduc), who have been the managers of the company since 1985, assisted by their respective brothers, Jean Leduc et Michel Crichton.[3] François Leduc died on December 15, 2016, at the age of 77 years old.[4]
Alphonse Leduc were acquired by the Music Sales Group in January 2014. The Music Sales Group changed its name to the Wise Music Group in February 2020.
See also
- Éditions Durand, competitor
Notes and references
- ^ "Music Sales changes name to Wise Music Group, signs Ólafur Arnalds and Evan Dando of The Lemonheads". Music Business Worldwide. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Music Sales Group buys Éditions Alphonse Leduc | Complete Music Update". Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "WMCParis".
- ^ "Francois H. Girard-Leduc (unknown-2016) - Find a..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 12 February 2022.