Éditions Leduc under British flag
Editions Alphonse-Leduc was sold to the British Music Sales group, Europe's leading music publisher.
France's oldest active publishing house, founded by Alphonse Leduc in 1841, boasts an impressive catalog, enriched by the purchase, in the 1980s and 1990s, of Editions Heugel (founded in 1839) and Hamelle (founded in 1877).
Among the composers in the Editions Leduc collection: Gounod, Fauré, Delibes, Widor, Massenet, Offenbach, Gustave Charpentier, Poulenc, Milhaud, Jolivet, Tournemire, Franck, Messiaen, Honegger, Tomasi... not to mention the contemporaries: Henri Dutilleux, Pierre Boulez, Charles Chaynes, Betsy Jolas, Thierry Escaich and many others.
The historic building on Paris's Rue Saint-Honoré, headquarters of Leduc Editions, was sold a few months ago.
Editorial by Michèle Worms in La Lettre du Musicien on publishing houses in France: Music publishing: what does the future hold?
