Edition Wilhelm Hansen was established in Copenhagen in 1857 after Jens Wilhelm Hansen decided to expand his engraving business into music publishing. Now, more than 150 years later, Edition Wilhelm Hansen is the largest music publisher in Scandinavia and maintains a catalogue that includes celebrated Scandinavian composers from established masters like Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, Vagn Holmboe, and Arne Nordheim to contemporary Danish composers such as Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Bent Sørensen, and Hans Abrahamsen. Our finest job at Edition Wilhelm Hansen today is to take care of the rights holders interests - of the practicalities around promotion, publishing, distribution, sales and performance of the composers’ and songwriters’ works. In 1988 Edition Wilhelm Hansen became a part of Wise Music Group, and the company's wide-ranging Rental Library represents all of Wise Music Group’s composers, as well as overseas houses such as Sikorski and Faber Music.