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Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1952 |
Founder | Charles Henry Hansen |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Miami Beach, Florida |
Publication types | Sheet music |
Official website | www.hansenhousemusic.com |
Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp. was an American music publisher founded by Charles Henry Hansen (1913–1995) in 1952 and incorporated in New York. Its music covered a broad spectrum of genres that included classical (opera, orchestra, band, choral, chamber, and solo), jazz, folk, rock, country, popular, educational — and music text books. For Beatles fans, the firm was widely known for having been the sole U.S. publisher and distributor of Beatles sheet music, beginning 1964. By the 1980s, Hansen Music ventured away from the pop field, focusing on classics and jazz method books.[1] The firm, in 1980, was operating 7 retail sheet music stores — two in San Francisco, three in Seattle, and two in Las Vegas.[1] The firm would later become inactive in December 1991, and the majority of its musical catalogue was eventually acquired by Alfred Publications.