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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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Concerto No. 1 in A Minor - Jean Baptiste Accolay

Concerto No. 1 in A Minor Jean Baptiste Accolay

Titel / Title: Concerto No. 1 in A Minor Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine und Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793554454 UPC: 73999568707 Buch O Schill Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine und Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer' ...
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Fifteen Three-Part Inventions - Johann Sebastian Bach

Fifteen Three-Part Inventions Johann Sebastian Bach

Titel / Title: Fifteen Three-Part Inventions Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9781458413185 UPC: 73999566901 Buch Carl Czerny Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musi ...
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Fifteen Two-Part Inventions - Johann Sebastian Bach

Fifteen Two-Part Inventions Johann Sebastian Bach

Titel / Title: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793551224 UPC: 73999566802 Buch Carl Czerny Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musica ...
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Fifteen Two And Three-Part Inventions - Johann Sebastian Bach
Titel / Title: Fifteen Two And Three-Part Inventions Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793569243 UPC: 73999564709 Buch Carl Czerny Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Library ...
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36 Elementary & Progressive Studies, Op. 20 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser
Titel / Title: 36 Elementary & Progressive Studies, Op. 20 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793554348 UPC: 73999106787 Buch Louis Svecenski Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine Serie/Series: Schirmer ...
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Eighteen Little Preludes And Fugues - Johann Sebastian Bach

Eighteen Little Preludes And Fugues Johann Sebastian Bach

Titel / Title: Eighteen Little Preludes And Fugues Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793552047 UPC: 73999548501 Buch Giuseppe Buonamici Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Li ...
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Ciaccona - Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Ciaccona Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Titel / Title: Ciaccona Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine und Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 UPC: 73999548204 Buch F David Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine und Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Klassik ...
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Fifteen Three-Part Inventions - Johann Sebastian Bach

Fifteen Three-Part Inventions Johann Sebastian Bach

Titel / Title: Fifteen Three-Part Inventions Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Method Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9781458426642 UPC: 73999546200 Buch W Mason Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Piano Method Klassik Erscheinungsjahr: Alternative Arti ...
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Fifteen Two-Part Inventions - Johann Sebastian Bach

Fifteen Two-Part Inventions Johann Sebastian Bach

Titel / Title: Fifteen Two-Part Inventions Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793553037 UPC: 73999167788 Buch W Mason Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Serie/Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Cl ...
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Selected Piano Pieces: Early Advanced - Ludwig van Beethoven
Titel / Title: Selected Piano Pieces: Early Advanced - 10 Selections from Sonatas, Sonatinas, Variations and more Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 9781540089861 UPC: 840126913514 10 Selections from Sonatas, Sonatinas, Variations and more Buch H ...
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Selected Piano Pieces: Upper Intermediate - Ludwig van Beethoven
Titel / Title: Selected Piano Pieces: Upper Intermediate - 14 Selections from Bagatelles, Sonatas, Variations and more Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 9781540089854 UPC: 840126913507 14 Selections from Bagatelles, Sonatas, Variations and more B ...
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Selected Piano Pieces: Early Intermed to Intermed - Ludwig van Beethoven
Titel / Title: Selected Piano Pieces: Early Intermed to Intermed - 35 Selections from Bagatelles, German Dances, Minuets, Sonatas, Sonatinas and more Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 9781540089847 UPC: 840126913491 35 Selections from Bagatelles, ...
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The Giant Book of Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven

The Giant Book of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: The Giant Book of Beethoven - Short Works and Selected Sonatas Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 9781540089830 UPC: 840126913484 Short Works and Selected Sonatas Buch Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: ...
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Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 - Book/Audio with Orchestral Performances and Accompaniments Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine und Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio Serie / Series: String Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 9781540088918 UPC: 840126913224 Book ...
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos - Ludwig van Beethoven
Titel / Title: Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos - with Audio of Full Performances & Orchestral Accompaniments Schirmer's Musical Library Vol. 2145 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio Serie / Series: Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch + Online-Audio Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2020 ISBN: 97815400888 ...
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Beethoven: Easiest Piano Pieces - Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven: Easiest Piano Pieces Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: Beethoven: Easiest Piano Pieces - Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2142 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2019 ISBN: 9781540039699 UPC: 888680894047 Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2142 Buch Herau ...
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