Wise Music Group

About

Wise Music Group (formerly the Music Sales Group) is comprised of over 60 music publishing companies with 150 staff in 12 offices around the world (Los Angeles, New York, London, Bury St Edmunds, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Bergamo, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Tokyo and Sydney). The Group has been in the continuous ownership of the Wise family since the 1930s. Today the Wise family are actively involved in leading the business.

The group’s publishing houses and imprints include some of the most famous names in the history of music including Associated Music Publishers, Bosworth Music GmbH, Campbell Connelly, Le Chant du Monde, Chester Music, G. Schirmer, Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Novello & Co, Première Music Group and Unión Musical Ediciones.
Wise Music Group owns or controls nearly half a million copyrights – including the world’s largest independent holding of historic and contemporary classical music – as well as a huge range of popular songs spanning evergreen, jazz, reggae, blues, pop and rock.

The group also represents nearly 100 of today’s most successful living composers and songwriters working in classical music, opera, ballet, pop, film, television and advertising. Represented composers include Ólafur Arnalds, Hans Abrahamsen, Samuel Barber, John Corigliano, Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass, Aram Khachaturian, Missy Mazzoli, Olivier Messiaen, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Hania Rani, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kaija Saariaho, Jean Sibelius, Igor Stravinsky, Tan Dun, Joby Talbot, John Tavener and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

The Group has been in the continuous ownership of the Wise family since the 1930s. Today the Wise family are actively involved in leading the business.