Sam Haynes A Music Library

Publishers

The name at the foot of a title page is often the best clue to when a score was printed and what kind of text it carries. These are the houses that appear most often on these shelves, in order of founding.

  1. 1719
    Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig

    Founded by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, it is the oldest music publisher still in business. 16 scores

  2. 1770
    Schott, Mainz

    Founded by Bernhard Schott. 5 scores

  3. 1793
    N. Simrock, Bonn

    Brahms's principal publisher, and the first publisher of most of his mature works, including the late piano pieces Opp. 116–119.

  4. 1800
    Edition Peters, Leipzig

    Founded as the Bureau de Musique by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel, and named for C.F. Peters, who bought it in 1814. In August 2010 the Peters Edition Ltd. (London), the C.F. Peters Corporation (New York), C.F. Peters Musikverlag (Frankfurt) and the Leipzig firms merged to form the Edition Peters Group. 59 scores, 1 book

  5. 1808
    Casa Ricordi, Milan

    Founded by Giovanni Ricordi. It was the house of Italian opera, publishing Verdi and Puccini. 2 scores

  6. 1861
    G. Schirmer, New York

    Now owned by Wise Music Group. Its yellow-covered Library of Musical Classics put the European repertoire on American piano benches for a century. 156 scores, 4 books

  7. —
    B.F. Wood Music Company, Boston

    Founded by Benjamin Frank Wood (1849–1922), possibly in the early 1890s. After Wood's death his nephew Harold W. Robinson took the company over; by then it employed about thirty people. 2 scores

  8. 1901
    Universal Edition, Vienna

    The publisher of Viennese modernism: Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. 4 scores

  9. 1923
    Bärenreiter, Kassel

    Founded by Karl Vötterle. 23 scores

  10. —
    Oxford University Press, Oxford

    The press itself is centuries old; its music department was founded in 1923. 3 scores, 24 books

  11. 1930
    Boosey & Hawkes, London

    Formed by the merger of Boosey & Co. and Hawkes & Son, and the publisher of Stravinsky, Britten and Copland. 13 scores

  12. 1935
    Hans Sikorski, Hamburg

    Known in the West as the publisher of Soviet composers, including Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

  13. 1945
    PWM (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne), Kraków

    The Polish state music publisher, and the house behind the Paderewski edition of Chopin. 1 score

  14. 1948
    G. Henle Verlag, Munich

    Founded by Günter Henle to publish Urtext editions, meaning scores that print what the composer wrote, established from the sources, with editorial suggestions kept clearly apart. 64 scores

Other houses 163

Every other imprint that appears on a title page here, by number of items.