The publishing
house.

Our raison d'être

XXI Music Publishing was founded in January 2018 with a clear ambition: to build a European music publishing house with international reach, jointly committed to celebrating musical heritage and championing contemporary creation. An agile and demanding house that selects its works carefully and stands behind its composers with conviction.

Today, the catalogue brings together eleven carefully chosen voices — heritage and creation alike — performed each season by the world's leading orchestras. Not a supermarket of repertoire, but a curated library.

Celebrating Musical Heritage

Our flagship project, the Ravel Edition, embodies the method: returning to autograph manuscripts, combining musicological expertise with the performer's perspective, defending a scientific approach without austerity. Nineteen volumes released, with more than a hundred artists, orchestras and institutions mobilised across the world.

The same commitment drives further projects: a César Franck cycle for the bicentenary of his birth, a revised edition of Pelléas et Mélisande under the guidance of François-Xavier Roth, and new releases in preparation.

Championing Contemporary Creation

We publish internationally recognised composers — Jean-Pascal Beintus (Grammy Award), Benoît Mernier (OPRL, Royal Academy of Belgium) — and we accompany a new generation we have chosen to champion early: Gabriel Durliat, Charly Mandon, Emily Pedersen. Because that is precisely the moment when a publisher can make a lasting difference.

Our work with Benjamin Attahir, Anthony Girard and David A. Randall extends this editorial line.

Performed on the world's greatest stages

Our scores live on the world's greatest stages. Works from our catalogue have been premiered, programmed or recorded by some of the most prestigious orchestras: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie.

A partnership with higher music education

XXI Music Publishing places great value on passing interpretative knowledge on to the next generation of professionals. Our revised editions are integrated into the academic programmes of several institutions of reference: the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne and the Haute École de Musique de Genève, as well as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Having tomorrow's musicians work with rigorous critical editions means embedding the scientific approach of XXI Music at the very heart of the training of performers. Editorial rigour only finds its full meaning when it is transmitted.

What sets us apart

Our catalogue is young, our team is compact. That is our choice and our strength.

This light structure allows us to publish quickly: a new work can come out within months of its premiere. It also allows us to provide direct support to composers.

We have chosen to invest in a demanding digital infrastructure because works deserve to be found, read and performed without friction: an open and interoperable catalogue, detailed work pages with ISMN, metadata compliant with international standards, dedicated tools for orchestra librarians.

All of this is grounded in a steady editorial identity: Belgian-rooted, uncompromising in its choices, international in its reach.