Le Chant du Monde
Le Chant du Monde, founded 1938: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Le Chant du Monde was a French music publishing house. It was created in 1938 by Léon Moussinac and was supported in the beginning by classical composers Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel, and conductors Roger Désormière and Manuel Rosenthal. Le Chant du Monde is particularly known worldwide for having gathered the first collection of traditional music and ethnographic recordings. It commissioned composers to transcribe French oral traditions and music alike. After World War II, the label acquired les Éditions sociales internationales and became the French editor of Russian composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian, and also the first producer of Léo Ferré, Mouloudji, Cora Vaucaire, then Colette Magny, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Uña Ramos and occasionally worked with Glenmor, Albert Marcœur, or Paolo Conte.
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French label and music publishing house founded in 1938 by Léon Moussinac, affiliated with SACEM (IPI #153714090); owned by from November 2016 until its name change in February 2020.
Label Code: LC 0609 / LC 00609.
Supported by prestigious allied Georges Auric, Roger Désormière, Arthur Honegger, Charles Kœchlin, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Manuel Rosenthal et Albert Roussel, Le Chant du Monde ('CDM') gathered the first collection of traditional music recordings and commissioned composers to transcript French oral traditions and music alike.
After WWII it acquired Les Editions Sociales Internationales. CDM shortly afterwards became the French editor of Russian composers Serge Prokofiev, Dimitri Chostakovitch and Aram Khatchatourian and also the first producer of Léo Ferré, Mouloudji, Cora Vaucaire, then Colette Magny, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Uña Ramos or Vladimir Vissotsky to name just a few.
In January 1982, Le Chant du Monde went bankrupt and was reactivated six months later with becoming the distributor.
In 1993, Le Chant du Monde merged with Arlesian-based French distributor and music label . It's now focused on classical music, pop music, children and traditional music.
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