Peermusic Classical Europe

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The Peermusic Classical GmbH , headquartered in Hamburg, is an independent subsidiary of the international publishing group peer music a music publisher focusing Contemporary Music .

History and meaning

It was founded on October 1st, 2008 and emerged from the Hamburg branch for the Europe-wide distribution of the Peermusic Classical catalog, which had existed since 1961. The parent company peermusic, founded in 1928 by Ralph S. Peer in New York and led in the second generation by his son Chairman Ralph Peer II since 1980, has a catalog with over 600,000 copyrights of all styles, which are marketed by 35 branches in 30 countries. The Classical Department was founded in New York in 1948 as the Concert Music Division. Over 3,000 works, including modern classics such as Charles Ives , Heitor Villa Lobos , Morten Lauridsen and Silvestre Revueltas , are published here. The Hamburg Classic Department, one of the world's largest independent music publishers, was given an independent corporate structure when the GmbH was founded in 2008. The new company was initially managed by Reinhard Flender, who had been in charge of the concert music department at peermusic Hamburg since 1987; In his almost 25 years of publishing activity, he expanded the publisher's repertoire by publishing over 700 new works. Since January 2015 Judith Coley has been General Manager responsible for the publishing house's operational business. At the same time, Bill Gorjance took over the management as Managing Director, in addition to his position as Peermusic CFO and Vice President Peermusic Classical New York and Hamburg.

Major composers and publishing activities

The publishing house is particularly committed to the contemporary composers Stefan Wolpe , Mathias Spahlinger , Elmar Lampson and Tobias PM Schneid and has initiated numerous CD productions of their works. One focus of the publishing house's work since 2003 has been the edition of the extensive work by the Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg . A highlight of the Weinberg renaissance was the world premiere of his opera The Passenger at the Bregenz Festival 2010, which has since been followed by many international productions. In addition, Peermusic Classical Europe is particularly active in countries that have a less developed own publishing landscape, so that works by the Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun , the Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn or the Dutch Theo Loevendie are regularly published by Peermusic Classical. As a sub-publisher of the classical works of the Peer International Corporation and the Israel Music Institute (since 1998), Peermusic Classical represents over 400 composers from 50 nations and is therefore one of the most important catalogs of the music of 20/21. Century.

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