Editions Alphonse Leduc
Éditions Alphonse Leduc is the name of a French music publisher founded in 1841 and based in Paris . He has been part of the British Music Sales Group since 2014 .
history
The origins of the Girard family, who founded the Éditions Alphonse Leduc publishing house and still run it as a family business today, lie in Arnay-le-Duc ( Burgundy ), from which the name Leduc is derived, which a branch of the family living in Nantes took on. The violinist Simon Leduc (1742–1777), who also worked as a music publisher, and his brother Pierre Leduc , however, are not related to the publisher's founder.
The publishing house Éditions Alphonse Leduc was founded in Paris in 1841 by Alphonse Girard (1804–1868), known as "Leduc", from Nantes. He himself studied with Anton Reicha at the Conservatoire de Paris , mastered the bassoon, flute and guitar and composed numerous works, especially dance pieces for piano. As a publisher, he initially concentrated on the publication of songs and piano pieces, and - himself active as a music teacher - he also included textbooks for instrumental playing in the publishing program. After Alphonses death, his son Alphonse-Charles (1844-1892) took over the management of the company. Under his leadership, the range of publications expanded, not only by taking over the catalogs of other publishers, but also by building up different series of notes, especially educational content. The acquisition of the French rights to Giuseppe Verdi's Aida proved to be very successful .
After the early death of Alphonse-Charles, his wife Emma - daughter of the pianist Henri Ravina - took over the publishing house in order to pass it on to her son Alphonse-Émile Leduc (1878-1951) in 1902. In 1905 he took over the publishing rights to the operas of Charles Gounod with the Lebeau catalog . Alphonse-Émile Leduc printed among other things the first works by Olivier Messiaen and organ compositions by Marcel Dupré and Jehan Alain , as well as the successful flute concerto by Jacques Ibert . 1951 to 1985, the fourth generation of the brothers Claude-Alphonse (1910–1995) and Gilbert-Alphonse Leduc (1911–1985) ran the publishing house. During this time, works by Arthur Honegger , Bohuslav Martinů , Henri Tomasi and Eugène Bozza were included in the publishing program.
Not least due to the purchase of stocks from other music publishers, the scope of the publishing program continued to grow in the second half of the 20th century: With Éditions Heugel , works by composers such as Jacques Offenbach , Darius Milhaud , Francis Poulenc and Pierre Boulez were added in 1980 Éditions Bornemann 1989 a. a. Organ works by César Franck , with Éditions Hamelle 1993 for example works by Gabriel Fauré and Charles-Marie Widor . With the takeover of the US publisher Robert King , an American subsidiary of Éditions Alphonse Leduc was also created. In 2013, the publishing program included almost 2,000 compositions by more than 350 composers in terms of symphonic works and operas alone.
After several moves within Paris, the company's headquarters were moved to 175 rue St-Honoré in Paris in 1929. From 1985 onwards, the fifth generation of the publishing house was run by cousins Francois Leduc and Basile Crichton.
The publisher has been part of the British Music Sales Group since January 2014 .
Individual evidence
literature
- Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Brockhaus Riemann Music Lexicon. Vol. 3. Schott, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8303-8 .
- The New Grove, 2nd edition
Web links
- Homepage of the publishing house (Engl.)