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Exlibris

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Danish label and publishing company founded October 1975 by book publishing company Gyldendal. Label Code: LC 0715 / LC 00715 [b]For the Swiss classical label, please use [l=Ex Libris][/b] Originally named "Exlibris, Gyldendals Grammofonplader", later just "Exlibris Gyldendal", and later on just "Exlibris Musik". The initiative came from Ole Werner Thomsen, manager at Gyldendal who proposed [a=Peter Abrahamsen (2)] the idea. Exlibris didn't actually sign artists for a number of releases, they created projects and invited artists dedicated to those particular projects to record them. In the beginning the label concentrated on releases with a literary content, ie. music based on (Danish) poems and literature. But through the years they have also released releases containing several other genres, ao. folk, classical music, rock, children's music and spoken word records.