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Hal Leonard Publishing Co.

Hal Leonard Publishing Co. publisher

In the late 1930s in Winona, Minnesota, the late Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother Everett "Leonard" Edstrom and their friend Roger Busdicker had formed a very popular dance band. Concerned that their conservative father wouldn't approve of using the family name for a band, Harold and Ev took parts of their names and called the band Hal Leonard. As leader of the Hal Leonard Band, Ev eventually became known as "Hal Leonard."

The company Hal Leonard was founded in 1947, after the Hal Leonard Band broke up. At the time, Ev started a music store using the Hal Leonard name while Roger and Harold were both directing award-winning high school bands in Winona. In those days, most school bands played serious literature, but Harold and Roger had the unique ability (because of their professional experience) to arrange "popular" music for school bands. Soon band directors across the US wanted their arrangements. They started to mimeograph copies and sell them. They realized that to successfully (and legally!) launch a new publishing company, they needed to license songs, so they ventured to New York's Tin Pan Alley in search of copyrights. What they got on their trip was an education in publishing and the rights to "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," one of the most popular songs of the day. Eventually, many music publishers in New York were licensing Hal Leonard to do school band arrangements of their songs. Thus began their publishing business and an entirely new industry.

The company grew and soon choral arrangements and a wider variety of band arrangements were added to their catalog of publications. In the early 1950s, the home organ industry began to grow rapidly That is when Hal Leonard published The Pointer System for organ, which eventually became the best-selling organ instruction method ever created. That method soon led to the first organ "benchpack," which featured instruction books and songbooks packaged in the bench of an organ. In the late 1950s, The Pointer Systems for Guitar and Piano were produced, introducing millions of beginners to instant playing success.

In the mid-1960s, Hal Leonard began marketing band and choral music to educators by sending recordings of arrangements through the mail. This unique promotion is now used by virtually every print music publisher in the industry.

In 1970, Keith Mardak and associates started a new division of Hal Leonard called Learning Unlimited, to create the first book/audio music instructional products. This division soon outgrew the company, and Mardak became general manager for the entire company. Shortly afterward, the Hal Leonard Guitar Method was launched, becoming one of the first methods to incorporate popular music. Today, this method is the leading guitar method in the world, having taught millions how to play guitar.

Hal Leonard continued to grow throughout the 1970s, and in 1980 made the giant leap into popular music print publishing when it established a unique and very close relationship with Chappell Music, the world's largest music publisher. Shortly thereafter, Hal Leonard increased its presence in virtually every music print market around the world. As a result, facilities in both Milwaukee and Winona were expanded to accommodate corporate growth.

In 1985, Hal Leonard was purchased from the original founders by an internal management team led by Keith Mardak, who then became president. Since then, it has experienced consistent, dramatic growth due to creative, innovative and aggressive publishing and marketing.

Today, Hal Leonard Corporation is the world's largest educational music publisher, with the #1 methods for learning guitar (the Hal Leonard Guitar Method), piano (the Faber Piano Method), and school music instruments (Essential Elements for Band and Strings), plus publications for learning virtually every instrument imaginable.

Hal Leonard is also the leading publisher of songbooks; Real Books and fake books; sheet music; band, orchestra and choral arrangements for schools; music reference publications; children's music products; educational magazines; and more. Many new titles are enhanced with supplemental audio and video files online for download and streaming.

The company leads the way in technology, developing eBooks, digital sheet music, apps and more. Hal Leonard operates many popular websites including SheetMusicDirect with thousands of songs arranged for different instruments available for download, and GuitarInstructor.com for online guitar lessons and tab.

In 2014, Hal Leonard made a substantial investment in Noteflight, LLC, an innovative music technology company dedicated to reinventing the way people create, share and use digital sheet music. This online community allows users to edit, display, play back and share music notation in a cloud-based web browser, on any device. Noteflight has an active subscriber base of nearly 1.5 million music enthusiasts and educators.

In its catalog of more than 200,000 available titles, Hal Leonard represents many of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, songwriters, arrangers and musical instrument manufacturers. Its products are sold in more than 65 countries throughout the world through Hal Leonard offices and a large network of distributors. Domestically, the company markets to more than 7,500 music stores in the United States and Canada through a team of 50 in-house sales representatives.

Hal Leonard operates out of two main facilities — its corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a state-of-the-art administration, production and distribution facility in Winona, Minnesota. The company also has editorial offices in New Jersey and Boston, and offices abroad in Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Chairman Keith Mardak, President Larry Morton, and the more than 500 talented Hal Leonard employees around the world remain dedicated to providing the very best in music products and services.

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Jack Brymer Clarinet Series - Jack Brymer
Titel / Title: Jack Brymer Clarinet Series - Advanced Book 2 Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999183696 Advanced Book 2 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrume ...
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Clarinet Series 2 Difficult - Jack Brymer
Titel / Title: Clarinet Series 2 Difficult Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999475975 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Serie/Series: ...
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Clarinet Series 2 Moderate - Jack Brymer
Titel / Title: Clarinet Series 2 Moderate Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999851816 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Serie/Series: ...
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Clarinet Series 2 Easy - Jack Brymer
Titel / Title: Clarinet Series 2 Easy Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999594935 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Serie/Series: Boos ...
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Luminos, Op. 16a - Morris Pert

Luminos, Op. 16a Morris Pert

Titel / Title: Luminos, Op. 16a Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Basset Horn [or Clarinet] and Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999594096 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Basset Hor ...
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Clarinet Series 1 Easy - Jack Brymer
Titel / Title: Clarinet Series 1 Easy Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 ISMN: 9790570050840 UPC: 73999167559 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinett ...
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The Accomplished Clarinettist Volume 3
Titel / Title: The Accomplished Clarinettist Volume 3 Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999365047 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Klarinette Se ...
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The Ragged Child - David Nield

The Ragged Child David Nield

Titel / Title: The Ragged Child - A Musical Play Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Gesang Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: BH Stage Works Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999399196 A Musical Play Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Gesang Serie/Series: BH S ...
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The Gipsy Princes - Emmerich Kßlmßn

The Gipsy Princes Emmerich Kßlmßn

Titel / Title: The Gipsy Princes - Operetta in Three Acts Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Orchestra Produkttyp / Product: Studienpartitur Serie / Series: BH Stage Works Produkttyp / Product: Studienpartitur Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999167337 Operetta in Three Acts Studienpartitur Nigel Douglas Herausgeber: Musik ...
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Countess Maritza - Emmerich Kßlmßn

Countess Maritza Emmerich Kßlmßn

Titel / Title: Countess Maritza - Operetta in Three Acts Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Gesang Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: BH Stage Works Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999571899 Operetta in Three Acts Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Gesang Se ...
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The Shepherd King - Jim Parker

The Shepherd King Jim Parker

Titel / Title: The Shepherd King - Musical Play in Eight Scenes Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Gesang Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: BH Stage Works Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999331738 Musical Play in Eight Scenes Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentati ...
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The Art of Joan Sutherland - Volume IX
Titel / Title: The Art of Joan Sutherland - Volume IX - Volume IX: Massenet Arias Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Vocal and Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Voice Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 ISMN: 9790570053797 UPC: 73999167092 Volume IX: Massenet Arias Buch Joa ...
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The Art of Joan Sutherland - Volume VIII
Titel / Title: The Art of Joan Sutherland - Volume VIII - Volume VIII: 19th Century French Arias Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Vocal and Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Voice Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 ISMN: 9790570053780 UPC: 73999167085 Volume VIII: 19th C ...
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Panis Vivus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Panis Vivus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Titel / Title: Panis Vivus Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Vocal and Piano or Organ Produkttyp / Product: Klavierauszug Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Voice Produkttyp / Product: Klavierauszug Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999915440 Klavierauszug Louis Dité Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentatio ...
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Epitaphs, Op. 6 - Morris Pert

Epitaphs, Op. 6 Morris Pert

Titel / Title: Epitaphs, Op. 6 Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Soprano Voice Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Voice Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999166996 Partitur Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Soprano Voice Serie/Series: B ...
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Four Japanese Verses, Op. 2 - Morris Pert
Titel / Title: Four Japanese Verses, Op. 2 Herausgeber / Publisher: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Soprano Voice and Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Boosey and Hawkes Voice Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2004 UPC: 73999166965 Buch Herausgeber: Musikverlag Josef Weinberger Instrumentation: Soprano Voice and P ...
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