How do you define music for hire and music for sale?
If the work features more than 5 instruments, it is music for hire. These works can be ordered from our partner Zinfonia.
If the work features less than 5 instruments, it is music for sale. These works can only be purchased from our partner Hal Leonard. If you are ordering from North or South America please click here, for orders from the rest of the world please click here.
If the work features electronic elements, it is always music for hire. These works can also be ordered from our partner Zinfonia.
How can I rent scores and parts?
Music for hire can be ordered from our partner Zinfonia.
How can I buy music for sale?
Music for sale can only be purchased from our partner Hal Leonard. If you are ordering from North or South America please click here, for orders from the rest of the world please click here.
How can I buy a score?
Most of our scores can be purchased from our partner Hal Leonard. However, please not that not all of our works are available for purchase. If you are ordering from North or South America please click here, for orders from the rest of the world please click here.
How long does it take to get my hire order?
Within Europe, receiving an order takes about one week.
I am student / teacher and need a work for education purposes. How can I order it?
Please note that the works of our catalogue are available as music for sale and music for hire.
If the work features less than 5 instruments, it is music for sale. These works are not available for educational purposes and can only be purchased from our partner Hal Leonard (for these orders from North or South America please click here, for orders from the rest of the world please click here).
If the work features more than 5 instruments or electronic elements, it is music for hire. These works are available for educational purposes and can ordered by contacting UMPG.Classical@umusic.com. Please note that we charge a shipping fee and an administration fee on all orders for education purposes, so we recommend using the inter-library loan before ordering the work from us.
What is Universal Music Publishing Classics & Screen?
The global leader in classical music publishing, UMP Classics & Screen is home to the iconic catalogues of Casa Ricordi (Italy), Éditions Durand Salabert Eschig (France), G. Ricordi & Co.
Bühnen und Musikverlag GmbH (Germany), G. Ricordi & Co. Ltd. (UK), G. Ricordi & Co., New York (USA) and UMP Editio Musica Budapest. These catalogues include within their ranks legendary composers past and present such as Puccini, Respighi, Verdi, Poulenc, Ravel, Messiaen, Haas, Kurtag, Kevin Puts, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon.
It also includes Decca Publishing, which provides a home for pioneering post-classical and film score composers such as Max Richter, Angélica Negrón, Anna Meredith, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Joep Beving and Peter Gregson.
In addition, UMP Classics & Screen’s roster includes world class film composers such as Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton-Howard, Nicholas Britell, David Lynch, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gustavo Santaolalla and many more.
Why are there three publishing houses called Ricordi?
The Italian publishing house Casa Ricordi was founded in 1808 by Giovanni Ricordi in Milan. Later on, two outposts were opened in Great Britain and Germany. G Ricordi & Co Ltd (London) started life in 1878; the G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag was founded in 1901 and is today based in Berlin. By now both have published their own stellar line of composers for many years.