Hansen

early decorative cover (1888)
early conventional cover (1893)
cover (1900-1910)
typical cover with the Viking character (1919)

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History

Hansen of Copenhagen, Denmark has been the major publisher of Scandinavian music. Founded in 1853 by Jens Wilhelm Hansen. Hansen's two sons Jonas (1850-1919) and Alfred (1854-1923) joined the firm in 1874, the year before acquisition of the Copenhagen publisher C. E. Horneman.

The period 1875-1914 saw vigorous growth: works by Danish composers like Niels Gade and J. P. E. Hartmann and the Norwegian Christian Sinding were added in this period, and there were several acquisitions: C.C. Lose (1872), Horneman & Erslev (1875), Carl Warmuth (Oslo, 1908) and Nordisk (1910). Notable Scandinavian composers added in the 20th century include Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, Emil Hartmann, Wilhelm Stenhammar, and Selim Palmgren.

Hansen opened branches in Leipzig (1887-1940), New York (ca.1974) and subsidiaries included Norsk (Oslo, from 1908), Nordiska (Stockholm, from 1915), Wilhelmiana (Frankfurt, from 1951), and J. & W. Chester (London, from 1957). The Hansen group was absorbed by Music Sales in late 1980s, then in 2018 Music Sales sold its printed music division to Hal Leonard.

Imprints

Incomplete list

  • Wilhelm Hansen
  • Nordiska Musikforlaget (from 1915)
  • A.B. Nordiska Musikförlaget

Hansen plates.

Plate Numbers

Plate Composer Work Year
01006 Lange-Müller 5 Sange, Op.1 1874
03273 Neupert Studier, Op.26
08116 Gade A Folk Tale (pf solo red.) 1885
08432 Grieg Mountain Thrall, Op.32 (piano red.) 1883
09803 Sinding Piano Quintet, Op.5 1888
09903 Lincke 8 Etudes for Violin (ed. Singer) 1888
09991 Sinding Suite in E major, Op.3 1889
10000 Hartmann Violin Sonata No.3, Op.83 1888
10309 Hartmann, Emil Symphony No.3 in D major, Op.42 1889
10402 Malling Piano Trio, Op.36 (parts) 1890
10730-35 Malling Musique de Ballet, Op.42 (piano 4-h version) 1891
10767 Hartmann Dyveke, Op.45 (4th movement, Vn. I part) 1891
10787 Strelezki 8 Mazurkas, Op.130 (No.4) 1891
10920-29 Sinding Digte af Sangenes Bog, Op.13 1892
11031 Fabricius Nocturne in B-flat major (sc&pt) 1892
11053 Robert-Hansen Symphonische Suite, Op.6 (score) 1892
11155 Hartmann Piano Concerto, Op.47 (2-pf red.) 1894
11257 Malling String Octet, Op.50 1893
11267 Henriques Violin Sonata, Op.10 1893
11387 Sinding Piano Trio No.1, Op.23 (score & parts) 1894
11402 Malling Der Tod und die Auferstehung Christi, Op.54 1894
11523 Bendix Symphony No.3, Op.25 1895
11564 Borch Lyrische Stückchen, Op.22 1895
11731 Hartmann Trauermarsch zu Thorwaldsens Beisetzung (arr. Svendsen) 1896
11766 Matthison-Hansen Cantabile, Op.32 1896
11952 Malling Aus dem Leben Christi, Op.63 1897
12157 Gade Baldurs drøm (vocal score) 1897
12177 Sinding Rondo infinito, Op.42 (score) 1898
12527 Elling Duettino for Violin and Piano, Op.49 1900
12550 Bohlmann Andante religioso (score&parts) 1901
12765 Sinding Scènes de la vie, Op.51 1900
12918 Sinding 4 Morceaux caractéristiques, Op.53 1902
12919 Sinding Mélodies mignonnes, Op.52 1902
12956–59 Sinding 4 Morceaux de salon, Op.54 1902
13045-49 Sinding 5 Etudes, Op.58 1903
13242 Glass Frühlingslied, Op.31 (score, parts) 1903
13532 Malling Piano Concerto, Op.43 (full score) 1906
13599 Wiklund Violin Sonata, Op.5 1905
14138 Barnekow Ballad, Op.27 1907
14262 Børresen Violin Concerto, Op.11 (arr. violin, piano) 1908
14311 Sinding Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.91 1909
14329 Sjögren Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Op.49 1909
14449 Henriques Børne-Trio, Op.31 1909
14542 Friedman Various Piano Transcriptions 1910
14665 Krygell Organ Concerto, Op.112 1910
14741 Amberg Fantasy Pieces, Op.12 1911
14756 Barnekow Idyllen, Op.29 (full score) 1911
14872a Palmgren Finnish Rhythms, Op.31 (no.5 only) 1911
14957 Nielsen Symphony No.2, Op.19 (piano 4-hands red.) 1911
15197 Sjögren Cello Sonata, Op.58 (score & part) 1912
15298 Henriques Valse-serenade and Valse-grazioso, Op.36 1913
15409 Bull La Mélancolie 1913
16185 Melartin Preludes, Op.85 1916
16186 Melartin Noli me tangere, Op.87 1916
16254 Friedman Piano Transcriptions of Various Composers (Schubert) 1917
16377 Stenhammar Sensommarnätter, Op.33 1916
16404, 54, 69 Palmgren 3 Piano Pieces, Op.54 1916
16514 Friedman Piano Transcriptions of Various Composers (Kirnberger) 1917
16566-71 Friedman Masques 1916
16634 Melartin Piano Sonatina, Op.84 1919
16652-53 Friedman Strophes, Op.71 1917
16668 Friedman Piano Transcriptions of Various Composers (Mendelssohn) 1918
16700 Friedman Piano Transcriptions of Various Composers (Bach) 1917
17180 Palmgren 6 Piano Pieces, Op.67b 1920
17613 Glass Symphony No.5, Op.57 (score) 1921
18204 Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op.43 (sc&pts) 1923
19370 Langgaard Symphony No.7 in F 1927
20262 Riisager Sonata for flute, clarinet, violin & cello (pts) 1931
20889 Høffding String Quartet, Op.6 1930
21752 Nielsen Maskarade, FS 39 (overture score) 1930
24328 Holmboe De danske tålte ikke tvang (text by J.V. Jensen), M.75 1935
26302 Holmboe Cantata No.5 'Århundredstjernen', M.152 (vocal score) 1949
26342 Koppel, H. String Quartet No.3, Op.38 (sc) 1952
26533 Badings Piano Sonata No.4 1949
27413 Seiber Wind Serenade (sc) 1957
27631 Holmboe Concertino for 4 Recorders and Strings, M.197 1958
27803 Holmboe Kairos Part 2, Op.73b 1958
27972 Holmboe 3 Songs to texts by Levy, M.202 1960
28105 Holmboe Tropos (quintet), M.206/Op.75 (score) 1970
29243 Holmboe Contrasti for Organ, Op.113 1977
29283 Holmboe Symphony No.10, Op.105 (fs) 1976
29548 Nørgård Twilight (sc) (1979 rev.) 1981
29715 Holmboe Guitar Sonata No.1, Op.141 1984
29722 Holmboe 5 intermezzi for guitar, Op.149 1984
29934 Holmboe Tuba Sonata, Op.162 1988
30119 Holmboe Symphony No.12, Op.175 1990
30163 Nørgård Violin Concerto "Helle Nacht" (sc) 1992

As with many publishers, Hansen more often provided scores with edition numbers than with plates in the 20th century (or at least both: so Henk Badings' 4th piano sonata has plate 26533 and is "Wilhelm Hansen edition, nr. 3816", the latter bit of information more often provided- in library catalogs anyway? - than the former...) Imprints use other plates (Nordiska Musikforlaget kept N M S even after purchase by Hansen, for example.)

IMSLP Entries

Plate #Full PlateComposerWorkIMSLP #Full YearYear

Sources

  • Rapoport, Paul. The Compositions of Vagn Holmboe. Hansen, 1996. ISBN 87 598 0813 6. (Contains - unusually - along with an attempt at a complete-up-to-1996 worklist, publishers, plate numbers and edition numbers for the first publications where known of each composition.)
  • Hofmeister-Verlag. Hofmeisters Monatsberichte.
  • Worldcat.org (to a point...)

Authority control

  • VIAF (Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS)

Further notes

  • By some point (certainly by 1961), some works were published with only edition numbers, not plates (e.g. the Krenek string trio Op.118, published with, it seems, Edition No.4063a. This was a co-production/co-issue with Frankfurt's M. Wilhelmiana-Musikverlag, whose edition number (or plate?) that might be, so until someone (this editor?) has looked at the parts, this remark is tentative. I see from above that Wilhelmiana was in any case a subsidiary, not an independent operation.)