Catalogues
Hal Leonard Australia is the Australasian rental agent for the following publishers.
These are some of the catalogues and composers we currently represent in this territory. Click on their links to visit their sites for information regarding composers, works, performance, synopses, rental material, available resources and more, but don't forget to return to our website to apply.
Publishers
Bardic Edition have a large and growing collection of the Australian born composer Percy Grainger. The site also has many links to Grainger resources on the web. For more Grainger works also see the Schott website (link below)
BMG Ricordi
Ricordi are the principal source of 19th century Italian opera, especially Puccini, Verdi and Rossini, they also publish a significant amount of Vivaldi.
Following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and for a period of over eighty years, Durand developed a richly varied catalogue based on the most representative French composers of the time: Saint-Saëns, Fauré, D’Indy, Debussy, Dukas, Ropartz, Roussel, Schmitt, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Duruflé, Jolivet and Messiaen. Durand also represents many of the contemporary French composers such as Nicolas Bacri, Renaud Gagneux, Philippe Hersant and Philippe Manoury.
Editions Salabert is undoubtably one of the cultural treasures of France. In the past Salabert became the main publisher of the 'Groupe des Six' (in particular of Honegger, Auric, Milhaud, Poulenc), but also of Satie, Sauguet, Chausson, Duparc, d’Indy, Ropartz, Magnard, Roussel, etc.
More recently Salabert reinforced its activity in favour of symphonic and chamber music by progressively building up one of the finest catalogues of contemporary music in the world. Aperghis, Boucourechliev, Constant, Dao, Darasse, Dusapin, Eötvös, Guézec, Jolas, Landowski, Malec, Méfano, Murail, Reverdy, Scelsi, Takemitsu, Tanguy, Xenakis - to name but a very few - are among the names that illustrate the pioneering editorial policy of a company that has been able to attract the leading composers of its day.
The Max Eschig catalogue reflects a state of mind, that of someone who keeps his ears open to the music of the world.
The range of the Max Eschig catalogue is very broad and includes much French music: Satie (Socrate, La Belle Excentrique), Koechlin (The Jungle Book, Les Heures persanes, Le Docteur Fabricius), Tournemire (the Eight Symphonies), Ravel’s first works (Pavane pour une infante défunte, Jeux d’eau, Miroirs), Milhaud (Le Bœuf sur le Toit , La Création du Monde), as well as many works by Honegger, Poulenc, Sauguet and others.
Spanish and Latin American music form another important category within the Eschig catalogue with composers including Manuel de Falla, Albéniz, Nin, Turina, Mompou, Ernesto Halffter, and Villa-Lobos
Ricordi Paris
The great names of the musical world formed a catalogue that can today boast two major works of Francis Poulenc, Les Dialogues des Carmélites (premiered in Milan in 1957) and La Voix Humaine, but also works by Claude Arrieu, Nabokov, Charles Chaynes, Daniel-Lesur, Marius Constant, Maurice Jarre, Henri Sauguet and others.
In parallel with Éditions Salabert’s activity in favour of classical music of the twentieth century, Ricordi-Paris boldly committed itself to composers of the younger generations: Alain Bancquart, Kasper Toeplitz, Thierry Pécou, Allain Gaussin, Vinko Globokar, Philippe Fénelon, José-Manuel Lopez-Lopez, Tod Machover, Martin Matalon, Ionel Petroï, Romitelli, etc.
Boosey & Hawkes have an enormous catalogue of standard repertoire, particularly of English, Russian and American works as well as some very fine living composers including James MacMillan, Steve Reich, John Adams and Australians Elena Kats-Chernin and Brett Dean.
Collegium Music Publications is a spin off from Collegium Records, the CD label dedicated to the Cambridge Singers, John Rutter’s own group. Collegium publish many of John Rutter’s new works.
European American Music Distributors
Alongside repertory works by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten and Arnold, its performance catalogue features one of the most notable and envied lists of "house" composers including Oliver Knussen, Jonathan Harvey, George Benjamin and Thomas Ades. Faber also publish the Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine & Matthew Hindson.
Fennica Gehrman (Finland)
A Finnish publisher representing many of Finland’s finest composers including much of the stage and orchestral works of Einojuhani Rautavaara.
Gehrmans Musikforlag (Sweden)
(includes Glocken Verlag and Octava)
Nuova Carisch S.p.A
Oxford University Press' great strengths are in choral and educational works of course in the Christmas carol arrangements of David Willcocks and John Rutter.
Peer music classical are a US publisher that have a very interesting collection of US and Hispanic composers including Charles Ives. You can search for repertoire on this website according to “theme”.
Robert Forberg Musikverlag
Schott publish a great deal of German and Japanese music, by far the most famous work on their books being Carl Orff - Carmina Burana.
Universal Editions have a very eclectic mix of modern European works as well as scholarly editions of 18th century repertoire.