Albersen Verhuur

What Albersen Verhuur does

Albersen Verhuur is a privately held Dutch sheet music rental and licensing intermediary headquartered at Fijnjekade 160 in Den Haag, Netherlands, operating with approximately five employees. Its functional role is to broker access to licensed musical repertoire for amateur orchestras and music ensembles in the Netherlands, handling both the rental of physical sheet music and the granting of performance licenses on behalf of upstream rights holders.

The company's core products are two web-form-driven services: Bladmuziek Verhuur (sheet music rental) and Licentie Aanvragen (license requests for performance rights). These are supported by two public-facing content catalogs — a Componisten Catalogus (composer index) and a Uitgeverijen Overzicht (publisher index) — that give amateur customers discoverability across the publishers and composers represented in the catalog. The firm also maintains an adjacent sub-brand, Albersen Musicals, at a separate domain covering musical productions. Underlying technology is a basic sheet music rental and licensing management system; there is no app, no public API, and no disclosed software integrations.

Albersen Verhuur earns revenue through licensing royalties and sheet music rental fees, with pricing structured around specialized amateur orchestra rates that are republished annually (most recently for 2026 in a downloadable tariff PDF). The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer: customers contact the Den Haag office by phone, email, or online request forms during standard weekday business hours (09:00–17:00). The customer base is the Dutch amateur music ecosystem — SMB orchestras and ensembles — with no named enterprise or institutional accounts disclosed and no geographic expansion beyond the Netherlands.

Name

Albersen Verhuur

Legal name

Albersen Verhuur

Website

https://albersenverhuur.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Albersen Verhuur is a small private Dutch sheet music rental and performance licensing intermediary serving amateur orchestras and music ensembles in the Netherlands from its Den Haag office.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Licensing and Sheet Music Rental Services

NAICS

Music Publishers (512230), Music Publishers (51223), General Rental Centers (5323)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Equipment Rental & Leasing (7350)

akta.pro primary industry

Print Music Publishing (Sheet Music, Scores, Educational Repertoire) (MPAIABAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Royalty Accounting & Payment Services (Statements, Audits, Payee Management) (MPAIABAL)

Keywords

• Sheet music rental
• Music licensing services
• Performance rights
• Amateur orchestra supplies
• Music publisher catalog

Headquarters

HQ city

Den Haag (The Hague)

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Sheet Music Rental: Rental of sheet music to amateur orchestras and music ensembles. Pricing follows published amateur rates for 2026.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Albersen Verhuur rents sheet music to Dutch amateur orchestras and music ensembles, and processes performance license requests on their behalf. Customers submit rental and licensing requests through online forms, phone, or email, and the company delivers the sheet music and arranges legal performance licenses with publishers and composers. Annual amateur orchestra tariffs are published for pricing.

Product overview

Albersen Verhuur operates as a sheet music and licensing services platform for Dutch amateur and professional orchestras. The core offerings consist of two main services: sheet music rental (Bladmuziek Verhuur) and license requests (Licentie Aanvragen). These are supported by searchable catalogs of composers and publishers. The company also provides access to musical productions through a linked website (Albersen Musicals). The platform is accessible via web forms and offers amateur orchestra rates for 2026.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Albersen Musicals: Musical productions service (external URL: albersenmusicals.nl)

Products and services

• Bladmuziek Verhuur (Sheet Music Rental) Rental service that allows customers to request and rent sheet music for performances, delivered and managed through the Den Haag office. Targeted at amateur orchestras and music ensembles.
• Licentie Aanvragen (License Request) Service for obtaining performance rights and permissions for musical works on behalf of performing ensembles. Customers submit license requests via online forms for processing by Albersen Verhuur.
• Uitgeverijen Overzicht (Publishers Overview) Overview catalog of music publishers whose sheet music catalogs are available through the rental service.
• Componisten Catalogus (Composers Catalog) Searchable database of composers whose sheet music is available through the rental service.
• Albersen Musicals Musical productions information and service offered through a separate affiliated website at albersenmusicals.nl.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Hal Leonard: The world's largest printed music publisher and retailer, offering sheet music sales, rentals, and licensing across many genres. Comparable category (sheet music distribution and rights) but much broader scope than Albersen's amateur-orchestra focus.

Others

• Buma/Stemra: Dutch collecting society that administers music performance and reproduction rights in the Netherlands. Not a direct competitor but a critical counterparty in the rights ecosystem that Albersen operates within when handling amateur license requests.

Direct peers

• Wise Music Group: Independent music publishing group encompassing Chester Music, Novello, and others, providing orchestral rental and licensing. Overlaps with Albersen's rental-plus-rights workflow at a multinational scale.
• Edition Peters: Classical music publisher with a substantial rental library and performance licensing services. Comparable to Albersen in providing orchestras with rental scores and rights administration across a curated catalog.
• Bärenreiter: German classical music publisher with an extensive rental library and licensing services for orchestral works. Closely aligned with Albersen's sheet music rental and rights administration offering for ensembles.
• Schott Music: International music publisher that rents orchestral materials and licenses performance rights across a deep catalog. Operates a similar rental-and-rights model to Albersen but on a global footprint.
• Boosey & Hawkes: Major classical music publisher offering sheet music rental, licensing, and performance rights administration to orchestras worldwide. Directly comparable to Albersen's rental-plus-licensing model, though at a much larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Universal Edition: Classical and contemporary music publisher with rental and licensing services for orchestral repertoire. Operates in the same value chain as Albersen - supplying scores and clearing performance rights.

Emerging players

• nkoda: Digital sheet music subscription app serving orchestras, ensembles, and individual musicians. Represents the digital-native disruption to traditional sheet music rental that Albersen's physical-rental model faces.
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library: Large free digital library of public-domain sheet music. While not a commercial rental service, it is a relevant competitive reference point for amateur ensembles evaluating alternatives to paid rental.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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