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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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As is the sea marvelous - Matthew Lyon Hazzard

As is the sea marvelous Matthew Lyon Hazzard

Titel / Title: As is the sea marvelous - Dale Warland Choral Series Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: SATB Divisi a Cappella Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Serie / Series: Choral Produkttyp / Product: Chorpartitur Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2016 ISBN: 9781495075490 UPC: 888680646141 Dale Warland Choral Series Chorpartitur Herausgeber: G. S ...
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The Indispensable Beethoven Collection - Ludwig van Beethoven
Titel / Title: The Indispensable Beethoven Collection - 12 Famous Piano Pieces Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Collection Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2017 ISBN: 9781495071607 UPC: 888680634902 12 Famous Piano Pieces Buch Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentatio ...
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Volume 25: Vocal Works - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Volume 25: Vocal Works Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Vocal Score Klavierauszug Herausgeber: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gesang Serie/Series: Vocal Score Klassik Erscheinungsjahr: 1987 Alternative Artikelnummer:
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Volume 24: Vocal Works - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Volume 24: Vocal Works Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Titel / Title: Volume 24: Vocal Works - Full Score Herausgeber / Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gesang Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Serie / Series: Full Score Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 1986 UPC: 884088102678 Full Score Partitur Herausgeber: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Gesang Serie/Series: Full Score Klassik Erscheinungs ...
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Volume 34: Works for Chorus - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Volume 34: Works for Chorus Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Full Score Partitur Herausgeber: Hal Leonard Instrumentation: Chor Serie/Series: Choral Klassik Erscheinungsjahr: 1986 Alternative Artikelnummer:
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas - Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas - All 32 sonatas from volumes 1 and 2 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Collection Produkttyp / Product: Buch Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2015 ISBN: 9781480332775 UPC: 884088888480 All 32 sonatas from volumes 1 and 2 Buch Hans von Bülow_Sigm ...
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Twelve Little Duets for Two Violins Op. 38 - Jacques Mazas
Titel / Title: Twelve Little Duets for Two Violins Op. 38 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violin Duet Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: String Method Produkttyp / Product: Buch Sprache / Language: English ISBN: 9781458421081 UPC: 884088632823 Buch Henry Schradieck Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violin Duet Serie/Series: String Method ...
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Fire of Eternal Glory - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch / Arr. James Curnow

Fire of Eternal Glory Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch / Arr. James Curnow

Titel / Title: Fire of Eternal Glory - Novorossiyek Chimes Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Concert Band Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: G. Schirmer Band-Orchestra Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English ISBN: 9781617808388 UPC: 884088561109 Novorossiyek Chimes Partitur + Stimmen Herausgeber: G. Schirm ...
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Complete Piano Concertos - Ludwig van Beethoven

Complete Piano Concertos Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: Complete Piano Concertos - Concertos 1-5 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: 2 Pianos Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch ISBN: 9781617741241 UPC: 884088539481 Concertos 1-5 Buch Franz Kullak Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: 2 Pianos Serie/Series: Schirmer's Libra ...
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75 Melodious and progressive Studies Complete - Jacques Mazas
Titel / Title: 75 Melodious and progressive Studies Complete Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics Produkttyp / Product: Buch Sprache / Language: English ISBN: 9781423490913 UPC: 884088475765 Buch Friedrich Hermann Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Violine Serie/S ...
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O Holy Night - Adolphe Charles Adam / Arr. Arthur Frackenpohl

O Holy Night Adolphe Charles Adam / Arr. Arthur Frackenpohl

Titel / Title: O Holy Night Herausgeber / Publisher: Canadian Brass Instrumentation: Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Serie / Series: Brass Ensemble Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen Sprache / Language: English UPC: 73999893434 Partitur + Stimmen Herausgeber: Canadian Brass Instrumentation: Ensemble Serie/Series: Brass Ensemble Klassik Erscheinungsjah ...
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Sea Drift - Symphonic Poem (1942) - John Alden Carpenter

Sea Drift - Symphonic Poem (1942) John Alden Carpenter

Titel / Title: Sea Drift - Symphonic Poem (1942) - Score Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Orchestra Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Serie / Series: Study Score Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9780793536108 UPC: 73999885125 Score Partitur Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Orchestra Serie/Series: Study Score Klassik Erscheinung ...
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Favourite Piano Works - Ludwig van Beethoven

Favourite Piano Works Ludwig van Beethoven

Titel / Title: Favourite Piano Works - Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics #2071 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Klavier Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Piano Collection Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 305 X 229 ISBN: 9781423431299 UPC: 884088164843 Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics #2071 Buch Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentatio ...
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The Song of the Forests, Op. 81 - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

The Song of the Forests, Op. 81 Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Titel / Title: The Song of the Forests, Op. 81 Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Chor Produkttyp / Product: Partitur Serie / Series: Choral Large Works Produkttyp / Product: Partitur ISBN: 9784117182149 UPC: 73999707885 Partitur Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Chor Serie/Series: Choral Large Works Klassik Erscheinungsjahr: Alternative Artikelnu ...
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Easier Works - Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

Easier Works Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch

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Cantique De Noel Vocal Duet - Adolphe Charles Adam

Cantique De Noel Vocal Duet Adolphe Charles Adam

Titel / Title: Cantique De Noel Vocal Duet Herausgeber / Publisher: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Voice Duet Produkttyp / Product: Buch Serie / Series: Vocal Duet Produkttyp / Product: Buch Format: 304 X 228 ISBN: 9780793582754 UPC: 73999651164 Buch Carl Deis Herausgeber: G. Schirmer Instrumentation: Voice Duet Serie/Series: Vocal Duet Klassik Erscheinungsjahr: Alternative Ar ...
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