Éditions Alphonse Leduc

Éditions Alphonse Leduc is the name of a French music publisher founded in 1841 with headquarters in Paris.

History

The origins of the Girard family, who founded the publishing house Éditions Alphonse Leduc and still performs as a family, are in Arnay -le- Duc (Burgundy), from which the name derives Leduc, the accepted a living in Nantes branch of the family. The music also verlegerisch active violinist Simon Leduc (1742-1777) and his brother Pierre Leduc, however, are not related to the publishing house founder.

The publisher Éditions Alphonse Leduc 1841 in Paris by a native of Nantes Alphonse Girard ( 1804-1868 ), founded called " Leduc ". He had himself studied with Anton Reicha at the Conservatoire de Paris, dominated bassoon, flute and guitar and composed numerous works, especially dance pieces for piano. As a publisher, he initially focused on the publication of songs and piano pieces, he also took - even worked as a music teacher - even textbooks for instrumental playing in the publishing program. After Alphonse's death, his son Alphonse -Charles (1844-1892) took over management of the company. Under his leadership, widened the publishing offer, not only by taking over the catalogs of other publishers but also by the structure of various note series especially educational content. As a very successful proved to be the acquisition of French rights of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

After the early death of Alphonse -Charles first took over his wife Emma - daughter of the pianist Henri Ravina - the publisher to hand him over in 1902 to her son Alphonse Leduc -Émile ( 1878-1951 ). This took over in 1905 with the Lebeau - catalog publishing rights to the operas of Charles Gounod. Alphonse Leduc -Émile printed, among other things, the first works of Olivier Messiaen 's organ works of Marcel Dupré and Jehan Alain and, moreover, the Flute Concerto by Jacques Ibert successful. 1951 to 1985 the brothers Claude- Alphonse ( 1910-1995 ) and Gilbert Alphonse Leduc ( 1911-1985 ) led the publisher in its fourth generation. During this time, including works by Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů, Henri Tomasi Eugène Bozza or were included in the published list.

Not least by buying the stocks of other publishers to enlarged the scope of the publishing program also during the second half of the 20th century continued, with Éditions Heugel 1980 works by composers such as Jacques Offenbach, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Pierre Boulez were added, with Éditions Bornemann 1989 dealt Organ works of César Franck, with Éditions Hamelle 1993, some works of Gabriel Fauré and Charles -Marie Widor. With the takeover of the U.S. publishing Robert King has also created an American subsidiary branch of Éditions Alphonse Leduc.

After several moves within Paris is the headquarters since 1929 in the Paris 175 rue St- Honoré. Now (as of 2013) is managed by the fifth generation of the Cousins ​​Francois Leduc and Basile Crichton the publisher. Alone at symphonic works and operas the publishing program comprises nearly 2,000 works by more than 350 composers.