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In 1941, Deutsche Grammophon (including Polydor) was purchased by Siemens & Halske. Polydor became a popular music label in 1946, while the new Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft label became a classical music label in 1949. The previously used label, Grammophon, was disbanded.
Deutsche Grammophon also reaches its centenary in 1998, as the world’s largest and most successful classical record company of its day. DG History - The Ninth Decade At the end of 1984 Siemens sells 40% of its half share in PolyGram International to Philips, who later buys the remaining 10% in 1987.
Deutsche Grammophon (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ɡʁamoˈfoːn]; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain , it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of labels in 1999.
Deutsche Grammophon AG parts company with Polydor Holding, Basel, selling off all their shares in it.
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Behind the scenes of the music business, at record companies and radio stations, there are fascinating personalities who are unjustly forgotten. One of them is Erna Elchlepp, who shaped the fortunes of Polydor and Deutsche Grammophon from the 1920s to the 1950s. Essay
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PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record
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Oct 11, 2003 · The German part was Polydor - as the popular music label of the company Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Later the company was renamed Polydor International, and Deutsche Grammophon was kept as a label name for classical music.
