Sheet music and music rights for 125 years
Bosworth Music GmbH celebrates its 125th anniversary in November. The Berlin-based music publisher is a German subsidiary of the global Music Sales Group. Today, it is both a publisher of sheet music books and a rights holder for musical works and songs.
Arthur Edwin Bosworth founded the publishing house in Leipzig in 1889 under the name Bosworth & Co. to distribute Arthur Sullivan's stage works throughout Germany. Michael Ohst has been Managing Director for Germany since 1998.
In the print sector, Bosworth Music produces chart-topping compilation albums and high-quality songbooks by renowned German rock and pop artists such as Die ärzte, Element of Crime, Die Toten Hosen, Söhne Mannheims, Max Raabe, Silbermond and Unheilig. The publishing house is also dedicated to the expansion of German-language teaching materials: methods for piano, guitar, bass, drums, ukulele, cello, recorder or saxophone consistently combine contemporary design and sophisticated, modern didactics.
The Copyright department deals with the exploitation of publishing rights in the areas of feature films and communication as well as the new production of music for all media. This includes the procurement and licensing of music rights for film and advertising, the procurement and creation of commissioned music, film soundtracks, etc.
The publishing house owns the music rights to world-famous titles such as Tainted Love, Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Unchain My Heart as well as current compositions by Hauschka and William Fitzsimmons. Renowned publishing catalogs belong to Bosworth Music: Robert Mellin Musikverlag with titles such as Only You, Hang On Sloopy, Twist And Shout, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow or Eaton Music GmbH with the music of George Fenton and the scores he composed for the BBC series The blue planet.
The record label BRM - Bosworth Recorded Music rounds off a publishing program that is committed to tradition and at the same time creative and innovative in its approach to new developments.
