In 1993 Fazor Music was acquired by Warner Music Group, which in 2002 started collaborating with Gehrmans Musikförlag on the catalogue with classical music. During the 1990s Fazer also came to publish Estonian composers such as Veljo Tormis and Erkki-Sven Tüür. Composers who came later included Leevi Madetoja, Yrjö Kilpinen and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Among the earlier composers were Jean Sibelius, Erkki Melartin, Selim Palmgren, Armas Järnefelt and Oskar Merikanto. The company took the responsibility for the publication of Finnish art music through Edition Fazer. The company came to influence the musical life of Finland by making available most of what was needed to play and listen to music. The company´s roots extend back to 1897 when Fazer Music was founded by Konrad Georg Fazer. The Finnish part of the Warner catalogue (Warner/Chappell Music Finland, Edition Fazer) was acquired at the same time by Gehrmans´ Finnish subsidiary Fennica Gehrman OY Ab, which also publishes new works by the leading Finnish composers.įennica Gehrman OY Ab, in which Gehrmans is the majority owner, was established in 2002. This comprised works by Allan Pettersson, Eduard Tubin, Ingvar Lidholm, Sven-David Sandström, Anders Eliasson et al. In 2007 Gehrmans acquired Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia´s orchestral, chamber and choral music catalogues, including Nordiska Musikförlaget´s repertoire. Also music by composers such as Ivar Widéen, Otto Olsson, Gottfrid Berg, Bengt Hallberg and Georg Riedel was added to Gehrmans´ catalogue. The two major choral catalogues in Sweden were thus collected under one and the same roof. In 1999 the operations and catalogues of Gehrmans and Sweden´s Choral Union´s Publishers were merged. During the 1950s they also started to publish a great deal of music-pedagogical literature here Carl-Bertil Agnestig was a prominent name. The house´s profile had evolved to mainly dealing with choral, chamber and orchestral music. Rosenborg in 1950 established a foundation which went in as principal owner. To create a long-term and stable ownership Mr. Gerhmans managed to avoid being bought up, a fate that befell many other music publishers.
This included many choral works that are still sung today, such as Alfvén´s arrangements of Swedish folk songs, Wilhelm Stenhammar´s Three Songs for Chorus and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger´s Spring Came One Walpurgis Night. A number of Sweden´s foremost composers were associated with the publishing house, and consequently many works that are now considered classics in the Swedish orchestral repertoire, such as Lars-Erik Larsson´s A God in Disguise and Pastoral Suite, Hugo Alfvén´s Gustav II Adolf Suite and Dag Wirén´s Serenade for String Orchestra, were brought out there.Ĭhoral music was an important part of the publishing house´s repertoire. Aside from popular music, orchestral music was given a central place in the enterprise. In 1930 Gehrmans was bought up by Inge and Einar Rosenborg. New owners and a wider range of activities Hirsch were eventually incorporated into Gehrmans. It mainly dealt with genres popular at the time, including salon music, hit songs and choral music. Carl Gehrman took over the enterprise in 1892 and in the following year it became a joint-stock company. In 1874 Julius Bagge purchased the music shop and expanded it to include his own publishing business. Östergrens Musikhandel, Östergrens Musik- och Bokhandel, Östergren & Hirsch, and Abr. During the following decades the company changed owners a number of times and had various names, among others G.A. Musikaliska Magazinet was established as a music shop in 1802 by Pär Aron Borg and started publishing activities in 1804. The origins of the publishing house go all the way back to the pioneering era of Swedish music publishers and sheet music retailers in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The joint-stock company was founded in 1893 by Carl Gehrman. Gehrmans Musikförlag is one of the leading independent music publishers in Scandinavia.
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