Chester Music — The Modernist English Imprint

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Chester Music.

The modernist English imprint, since 1860. Chester Music carries Stravinsky's early period, Aulis Sallinen, Karl Jenkins, Arvo Pärt and the Nordic modernist canon. Now the modernist arm of the Wise Music Group classical family.

Founded
1860
City
London, UK
Tradition
Modernist + Nordic
Catalogue
12 departments
The Chester Catalogue

Chester became the home of musical modernism — Stravinsky in his early Russian years, Aulis Sallinen, Karl Jenkins, Arvo Pärt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the entire Nordic modernist tradition. The Chester catalogue today complements Novello (the Anglican tradition) within Wise Music Group.

Below: the Chester departmental catalogue. Composer-first for the modernist voices, format for orchestra, opera and chamber, plus the Chester educational and exam-board catalogues.

Catalogue · 12 Departments

The Chester Music shelf.

— Modernist & Nordic · London since 1860 —

The full Chester shelf.

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