Music Publishers

Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library

See Also: Category:Music Publishers, Category:Editions
This table lists all known music publishers on IMSLP. As this table is sortable, it can provide help identifying a score.

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Table

Name	Plate	Year	Place	Comment
A	A		A
Jos. Aibl	####	1825-1904	Leipzig
G. Alsbach & Co	A. & Co.		Amsterdam
G. Alsbach & Co	G.A. & Co.
Amadeus Verlag			Winterthur
Johann André	#####	1775-	Offenbach am Main
Anglo-Soviet Music Press	A.S.M.P. ##		London	Largely reprints of Muzgiz titles.
Apollo-Verlag	A. ### V.		Berlin
Art Publication Society			St. Louis
Artaria			Vienna
Artia			Prague
Augener	#####		London
B	B		B
Bach & Co.	B. ## & C°.		London
Ballard		1551-1821
E. Baudoux	E. #### B.	ca.1880-1905		sold to Rouart, Lerolle et Cie.
Bärenreiter-Verlag	BA #### BVK #### TP ###	1923–	Kassel	Publishers of MGG (German musical encyclopædia), New Complete Editions of JS Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schütz, etc.
Bärenreiter-Verlag → Neue Mozart-Ausgabe NMA	BA 4501–4617	1955–2007		Presently in 115 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag → Franz Berwald: Sämtliche Werke	BA 4901–4923	1966–1987		Presently in 22 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag → Neue Bach-Ausgabe NBA	BA 5001–5100	1954–2000		In 99 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag → New Berlioz Edition NBE	BA 5441–5466	1967–2005		In 26 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag → Neue Schubert-Ausgabe	BA 5502–5557	1964–		Presently in 52 volumes
Bärenreiter-Verlag → Leoš Janácek: Kritische Gesamtausgabe	BA 6841–6860	1978–		Presently in 16 volumes, in conjunction with Supraphon
M.P. Belaieff	####	1885-1972	Leipzig, St. Petersburg	Absorbed by Peters
Ernst Berens	E.B. ###		Hamburg
M. Bernard			St. Petersburg	Absorbed by Jurgenson in 1885
Emil Berté & Cie.	E.B. & Cie.		Vienna
Bessel	####	1869-	St. Petersburg
Bessel	W. #### B.	1869-	St. Petersburg
Billaudot
Boosey & Hawkes		1930-	London
Boston Music Co.	B.M.Co. ####
Bosworth & Co.	B. & Co.	ca.1890s-1920s
Bote & Bock, GmbH	B. & B.	1838-present
Brandus		1846-1887		Sold to Ph. Maquet, 1888.
→ Brandus & Cie.	B. & Cie.	1846-1854, 1873-1887	Paris
→ Brandus & Dufour	B. & D. #####	1854-1872	Paris
Max Brockhaus	M.B.
Brödrene Hals	B.H.M. ###	1887-1908	Christiania (=Oslo)
Breitkopf & Härtel	#####		Leipzig
Breitkopf & Härtel → Orchester-Bibliothek	Orch.-B.
Breitkopf & Härtel → Partitur-Bibliothek	Part.-B.
Breitkopf & Härtel → Volksausgabe	V. A.	1876-1913
Breitkopf & Härtel → Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe	B.W. ###
Breitkopf & Härtel → Beethoven Gesammtausgabe	B. ###	1862-1888
Breitkopf & Härtel → Brahms: Sämtliche Werke	J.B. ###	1926-27
Breitkopf & Härtel → Georg Friedrich Händels Werke.	H.W. ###	1858-1894, 1902
Breitkopf & Härtel → Liszt-Stiftung Edition	F.L. ###
Breitkopf & Härtel → Alte Mozart-Ausgabe	W.A.M. ###	1877-1910		Plate number = Köchel KV1
Breitkopf & Härtel → Mendelssohn Gesammtausgabe	M.B. ###
Breitkopf & Härtel → Franz Peter Schuberts Werke	F.S. ###
Breitkopf & Härtel → Robert Schumanns Werke	R.S.##	1879-1893
Bursik & Kohout	B. ### K.		Prague
C	C		C
Carisch & Jänichen	C. ##### J.		Milan; Leipzig
Carulli		1822-1833	Milan
Cappi et Diabelli	C. et D. No. ###		Paris
S. Chapelier	S.C. ##		Paris
Chester		1861-present	London
Chester	CH ####	ca.1970-present
Chester	J.W.C. ####	1861-ca.1970
Choudens	A.C. #####	1845-	Paris
Colombier	C. ####		Paris
Composers' Music Corporation	C.M.C. ###		New York
Costallat et Cie.	C. & C. / C. & Cie.	1895-ca.1950	Paris
J.G. Cotta	##	1659-?	Tubingen, Stuttgart
August Cranz	C.		Hamburg, Leipzig, Brussels	subsidiary of Schott
J. Curwen			London
D	D		D
Demets	E. #### D.	ca.1895-ca.1925	Paris
Deutscher Verlag für Musik	DVfM ####	1954-	Leipzig	Under Briekoptf & Härtel
Oliver Ditson	#####	1783-	Boston
Ditson   → Musician's Library	ML-####-#
Doblinger	D. ####		Vienna
Dover Publications			Mineola
V. Dufaut et Dubois	V.D. et D. ####		Paris
Durand			Paris
	A.D. & F.	1891-ca.1920		less common than D. & F.
	D. & C.	ca.1960-present
	D. & F.	1891-ca.1960.
	D.S. & Cie.	1870-1885
	D.S.	1886-1891
E	E		E
Elkin & Co.	E. & Co.		London
Enoch
→ Enoch	E.F. & C.	1881-1895
→ Enoch & Cie.	E. & C.	1895-present
→ Enoch & Cie.	E. & Cie.	1895-present
→ Enoch & Sons	E. & S. ####	1869-1927
→ Enoch Père et Fils	E.P. & F.	1853-1881
Léon Escudier	L.E. ####		Paris
Edition Eulenburg			Leipzig, London
Editions Musicales Transatlantiques	E.M.T. ###		Paris
Max Eschig	M.E. ####	1907-1987	Paris
F	F		F
A. Farrenc	A.F. ###		Paris
Carl Fischer		1872-	New York
J. Fischer & Brother	J.F. & B. ####-##		New York
Gustave-Alexandre Flaxland	G. #### F.	1847-1869	Paris	to Durand, 1870
Robert Forberg	####		Leipzig	engraving by Röder
Freie Vereinigung zur Förderung guter Guitaremusik	I-VIII, #		Augsburg	engraving by Oscar Brandstetter (Leipzig)
E. Fromont	E. #### F.	ca.1891-1921	Paris
Furore Verlag		1986-	Kassel	At least one edition has a bogus copyright notice (reprint)
Adolph Fürstner	A. #### F.		Berlin	subsidiary of Schott
G	G		G
Gebethner & Wolff	G. #### W.
Carl Giessel	##		Bayreuth
Carl Grüninger	C.G. ####		Stuttgart
Léon Grus	L.G. (& Cie.) ####		Paris
Joseph Günther	J. ### G.		Dresden
A. Gutheil	A. #### G.		Moscow	to Edition Russe, 1914
A.J. Gutmann	J. ### G.		Vienna
H	H		H
Julius (or Jules) Hainauer	J. #### H.	ca.1870-ca.1920	Breslau
J. Hamelle	J. #### H.	1877-ca.1940	Paris
Edition Wilhelm Hansen	#####	1853-	Copenhagen
G. Hartmann	G.H. et Cie. ####		Paris	to Heugel, 1891
Tobias Haslinger	T.H. ####		Vienna
Heinrichshofen's Verlag			Magdeburg
Gustav Heinze	G. ### H.		Leipzig
G. Henle Verlag		1949-	Munich
Ad. Henn	A. ### H.		Geneva
Heugel	H. ####		Paris
→ Heugel	H. & Cie. ####
Friedrich Hofmeister			Leipzig
Hofmusikhandelens Forlag	K.H.M. ####		Copenhagen
Hudební Matice	H. M. ###	1871-1951	Prague
Gebrüder Hug	G.H. ####		Leipzig
I	I		I
International Music Company			New York	A subsidiary of the pop-music publisher Bourne Music, Inc. A vast majority of editions are under copyright.
J	J		J
Jobert	J.J. ###		Paris
L. Jouve	L.J. ##		Paris
P.L. Jung	P.L.J. ###		New York
P. Jurgenson			Moscow
K	K		K
C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger	C.F.K. ####		Leipzig
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.	None	1929-	Boca Raton
Fr. Kistner	#####	1823-	Leipzig
Könemann Music	K. ###		Budapest	Publisher of low-priced Urtext editions. Editor's notes are freely available on the publisher's website. Many publications from the early to mid-1990s are unedited reprints of public domain editions like the Ricordi full score of Aida, etc.
Edition Kunzelmann			Adliswil (Switzerland)
L	L		L
Laundy & Co.	J. ### L.		London
Alphonse Leduc	A.L. ####	1841-present	Paris
Henry Lemoine	##### H. ##### H.L.		Paris
Alfred Lengnick & Co.	A.L. & Co. Ltd. ####		London
Hal Leonard		1947-	Milwaukee	It is highly unlikely that there are any Hal Leonard publications in the public domain. Hal Leonard has controlled the print rights for the Schirmer catalog since 1986.
F.E.C. Leuckart	F.E.C.L. ####	1782-	Munich, Leipzig
Gustav Lewy	G.L. ###
Litolff			Braunschweig	Bought by Peters in 1940.
C.C. Lose			Copenhagen
F. Lucca		-1891	Milan	sold to Ricordi in 1891
Abr. Lundquists Kongl. Hof-Musikhandel	Abr.L. ####		Stockholm
M	M		M
J. Maho	J #### M.	1851-1877	Paris
→ J. Maho	J.M. ###	1851-1877	Paris
Edwin B. Marks	#####		New York
Masters Music Publications			Boca Raton	(see Kalmus)
A.Z. Mathot	Z. ### M.		Paris
Pietro Mechetti	P.M. ####		Vienna (before 1857)
C. Meissonnier	C.M. #####		Paris
Carl Merseburger	C. ####-# M.		Berlin, Leipzig
Mori & Lavenu	####		London
Editio Musica Budapest	Z. ####		Budapest
Musica Obscura Editions
Musica Rara	M.R. ####		London / Monteux (FR)	Under Breitkopf Härtel since 2000
Musytschna Ukraina			Kiev
Muzgiz / Muzyka	G.M. #### I.M. Г.M. #### Г.M.	1918-1930	Moscow
→ Muzgiz / Muzyka	M. ##### G. M. ##### Г.	1930-1963	Moscow
→ Muzgiz / Muzyka	#####	1963-	Moscow
N	N		N
Adolph Nagel Nagels Musik Archiv	Archiv Nr. ##	1835-1952	Hannover	Bärenreiter imprint from 1952 on.
→ Adolph Nagel	N.M.A. ###
Otto Heinrich Noetzel Verlag			Wilhelmshaven
A.A. Noske	A.A.N. ###		G's Gravenhage (Netherlands)
Novello			London
O	O		O
Georges Oertel	G.O. ###
Louis Oertel	L. #### O.
Nakladatelství Oldřích Padírek	Ol. P.		Brno
Orbis	EO ###	1949-1953	Prague
Österreichischer Bundesverlag	Dm.d.Tk.in Oest. xxx ##	1772	Vienna
P	P		P
Patey & Willis	P. & W. ####		London
A. Payne's Musikverlag	A.P. ##		Leipzig
Edition Peters	#####		Leipzig; Frankfurt
→ Edition Peters	EP #####
Pfister Frères	P.F. ##		Paris
Philippo et Cie.	C. ### P.		Paris
J. Pirrault	J. et H.P. ###		Paris
Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM)	P.W.M. ####		Warsaw
Praeger & Meier	P. ### M.		Bremen
Praeger & Meier	P. & M. ###		Bremen
R	R		R
D. Rahter			Hamburg
Rebay & Robitschek	R. & R.		Vienna
Gebrüder Reinecke	G. ### R.		Leipzig
Richault	#### R.	1805-1898	Paris	sold to costallat
Ricordi		1808-	Milan
Ries & Erler	R. #### E.	1881-present	Berlin
Rieter-Biedermann	###	1849-1917	Winterthur, Leipzig	Founded 1849 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Moved to Leipzig in 1884. Sold to Peters in 1917.
Röder			Leipzig	Music engraving and printing firm founded by Carl Gottlieb Röder (1812-1883) in 1846 after a decade apprenticeship with Breitkopf & Härtel. Röder was the first to successfully adopt lithographic printing technology to music (1863) and rapidly grew to be the largest firm of its kind - with production for nearly all major publishers worldwide. Heavily damaged in WW II, the company was nationalized by the Communist regime in 1947 and operated as Röderdruck. During this era, the Soviet State Music Publisher, Muzika, had some of its more important volumes engraved and printed there.
Rozsnyai Karoly	R.K. ####		Budapest
Rouart, Lerolle & Cie.	R.L. #### & Cie.	1908-1941	Paris
→ Alexis Rouart, Lerolle & Cie.	A.R. #### L. & Cie.	1905-1908
→ Rouart, Lerolle & Cie.	R.L. ####	ca.1920-1941
Rozsavölgyi & Co	R. & Co. ####		Budapest
→ Rozsavölgyi & Co	N.G. ####		Budapest
Carl Ruhle	C. #### R.		Leipzig
Edition Russe de Musique	R.M.V. ###		Berlin, Paris
S	S		S
Salabert			Paris	Founded before 1895 by Edouard Salabert, the company concentrated in popular music until the purchase of a number of smaller French classical publishers including Dufresne (1923), Gaudet (1927), Mathot (1930), Christiné (1937), Rouart, Lerolle & Cie., Senart (1941), and Deiss (1946). The company was sold to BMG in 1994, who subsequently acquired Durand/Eschig/Amphion (2000).
G. Schirmer		1861-	New York
Maurice Schlesinger (Paris)	M.S. ####	1821-1846	Berlin, Paris
A. Schlesinger (Berlin)	S. ####	1810-1864 (Lienau after 1864)
M. Schloss	M.S. ###		Köln
Arthur P. Schmidt	A.P.S.	ca.1880-1935	Boston
C.F. Schmidt	C.F.S. ###		Heilbronn
Editions Musicales de la Schola Cantorum	S.#### P.		Paris
Schonenberger	S. ###		Paris
B. Schott's Söhne	B.S.S. #####		Mainz (older imprints use "Mayence")
→Schott Freres	S.F. ####	ca.1843-	Brussels
→Schott & Co., Ltd.	S. & Co. ####	ca.1835-	London
→Schott & Co., Ltd.	#### S. & Co. S. & Co. ####	ca.1835-	London
Friedrich Schreiber	F.S. #####	1876-1879
Edward Schuberth & Co.	E.S. & Co.
Editions Maurice Senart	E.M.S. ####	1908-1941
Senart, Roudanez et Cie.	S.R. & Cie.	1908-1914
Bartholf Senff		1847-1907	Berlin
Robert Seitz	R.S. ###		Leipzig
Shanghai Music Publishing House	#J####	1949-present	Shanghai
C. F. W. Siegel	E.W.F. ### L. ####	1846-1909	Leipzig
Hans Sikorski	H.S. ####		Hamburg
Carl Simon	C.S. ###		Berlin
Simon and Schuster	S & S ###		New York
N. Simrock			Berlin
Editions de la Sirène	E.D. ### L.S.		Paris
La Sirene Musicale	S.M. ###		Paris
Sovietski Kompositor	C. #### K.		Moscow
C. A. Spina	C.S.	1852-1876	Vienna	sold to August Cranz
Stainer & Bell	S. & B. ####		London	Founded in 1907 by a group of English composers to promote British music. The firm quickly became a significant force with the publication of works by composers such as Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Stanford. Major scholarly series include the Carnegie Collection of British Music, The English Madrigal School (1913-24), William Byrd: Complete Works (1937-50), and Musica Britannica. The publishing group Galliard, Ltd., which included Augener, Joseph Williams, and Joseph Weekes, was purchased in 1972.
Státní nakladatelství krásné hudby, literatury a umení (SNKHLU)	H ####	1953-1967	Prague
S.A. Steiner und Comp.	S. et C. ####		Vienna
Steingräber Verlag	##		Hannover
Adolf Stöppler	St. ## W.		Wiesbaden
Edition Strache	E. St. ## Edition Strache No.##		Vienna, Warnsdorf
Süddeutscher Musikverlag	S M.-V. ##		Strassburg
Edition Supraphon	H ####	1967-	Prague
Suvini Zarboni	S. #### Z.		Milan
T	T		T
Táborszky & Parsch	T. & P. ###		Pest
T. Trautwein	####		Berlin
Troupenas	E.T. & Cie	1825-1850
U	U		U
Urbanék	U. ####		Prague
→ Mojmír Urbanék	M.U. ###	1900-1949	Prague
→ Edition Mojmír Urbánek	Edition M.U.		Prague
Union Musical Española	U.M.F.E. ####	1890s-	Madrid
Universal Edition			Vienna
University Society	### - ##		New York
V	V		V
Genesio Venturini			Florence
W	W		W
Carl Warmuth	C.W.	1843-1908	Christiania (=Oslo)
K.F. Wasenius	K.F.W. ##		Helsinki
Wessel & Co.	W. & Co. No. ####		London
R.E. Westerlund	R.E.W.###		Helsinki
White, Smith & Co.	#### - #		Boston
Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag	W. Ph. V. ###		Vienna
Wiener Urtext Editon		1972-	Vienna	Founded in 1972 as a joint venture of Schott and Universal
M. Witmark & Sons			New York
B.F. Wood	B.F.W. ####		Boston
Y	Y		Y
Editions Antoine Ysaÿe	A.Y. ####		Brussels
Z	Z		Z
G. Zanibon	G. #### Z.		Padua
Jul. Heinrich Zimmermann	Z. ####		Leipzig
ZJTC Music	####-##-##		Tokyo	This rather obscure publisher seems to reprint mainly recent scores (e.g. Bärenreiter).