United Music Publishers (often referred to as UMP) is a publisher of sheet music and a music distribution firm based in Waltham Abbey, Essex. They are well known for being the sole representative in the UK and Ireland for all the major French classical sheet music publishers and a selection of international catalogues.
They also publish their own catalogue of works by innovative contemporary composers, including Simon Bainbridge, Richard Barrett, Diana Burrell, Edward Cowie, Petr Eben, Michael Finnissy, Naji Hakim, Stephen Montague, Philippe Mazé, Francis Pott, Roger Redgate, Edwin Roxburgh and Pierre Villette.
Famous quotes containing the words united, music and/or publishers:
“And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)