Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp.

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. Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp. was the exclusive U.S. publisher and distributor of Beatles sheet music starting in 1964. In the 1980s, Hansen Music shifted its focus from popular music to classical and jazz method books. In 1980, Hansen Music operated seven retail sheet music stores located in San Francisco, Seattle, and Las Vegas. Hansen Music ceased operations in December 1991, and its musical catalog was acquired by Alfred Publications.