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Wise Music Group is proud to announce the acquisition of a controlling interest in Edition Peters Group, one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished music publishing houses. Wise Music Group has made its acquisition from the Hinrichsen Foundation and will own Edition Peters Group in partnership with Christian Hinrichsen whose family association with the company began in 1863. Read Full Article

Wise Music Group has announced the appointment of Marcus Wise as Chief Executive Officer for the European region of the independent family business. He will lead the group’s music publishing and record company interests across the continent with immediate effect. Read Full Article

The Master of The King’s Music Judith Weir, Paul Mealor and Tarik O’Regan have been commissioned by The King to compose new pieces of music for The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort taking place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday May 6, 2023. Read Full Article

Wise Music Group announces the launch of Wise Music Iceland ehf in Reykjavik. This will be the first time a global publishing business has established a full publishing entity in the country. Read Full Article

A new choral work, Like as the hart, has been composed by Master of The King’s Music, Judith Weir CBE for inclusion in the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II which will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19th September at 1100hrs BST. Read Full Article

Wise Music Group is releasing two new podcast series in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary – Composing Myself and Wise Choice. Read Full Article

In the 2022-2023 season Wise Music Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Trading under the name of Music Sales from the early 1970s Wise Music Group at first operated in both print publishing and copyright acquisition with headquarters in London. Wise Music Group now offers genuine international reach with active offices located in USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and Japan. Read Full Article

Several recordings we are associated with through our writers have been announced as winners at the 64th GRAMMY Awards.

The winners are in various categories including Classical, Jazz, and Music for Visual Media, highlighting the breadth of our global catalogues. We’re proud to work with the various artists, composers, songwriters, producers, engineers and record labels who made these recordings come to life. Read Full Article

G. Schirmer, part of Wise Music Group, has acquired the rights to the catalogue of Franz Waxman across all his concert works as well as a great number of his iconic film scores, including concert versions of his Academy Award-winning scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in The Sun (1951). Read Full Article