Carmina Burana Makes Its Digital Debut; Net4Music and Schott Musik Introduce Downloadable Sheet Music for a Piano Version of Carl Orff's Classic - Available Only Online

Business Wire, Dec 20, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000

A classic choral composition with a decidedly medieval feel is making a 21st-century debut today, as Net4Music (Nasdaq: NMUS) and German publisher Schott Musik International announce the Internet-only release of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for piano.

The sheet music for the popular piece, heard frequently in film and television, will be available for purchase and download at www.net4music.com in a special arrangement for piano students.

The announcement is the first Internet-only release to come out of Net4Music's landmark digital distribution deal with Schott, one of the largest classical music publishers in the world. Over 200 years old, the German company was the original publisher of many works by Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Orff, Rodrigo, Ligeti, Henze, Penderecki, Takemitsu and others.

According to Dr. Peter Hanser-Strecker, CEO of Schott and President of the Publishers' Association of Germany, "Net4Music's industry-leading Internet technology allows publishers to distribute printed music in a much more effective way than ever before. Where distributors and retailers once had problems keeping inventory up-to-date with new instrumentation and arrangements of sought-after titles, the Internet give us a way to deliver exactly what customers want, when they want it. We are extremely excited about the chance to work with Net4Music."

"Carmina Burana is one of the most important classical works of our time," said Francois Duliege, CEO of Net4Music. "We are thrilled to bring the piece to students and music educators in an arrangement that they will find engaging and entertaining to play and teach."

About Net4Music Inc.

Net4Music Inc. (Nasdaq: NMUS), formed by the October 2000 merger of Net4Music S.A. and Coda Music Technology, provides the music publishing industry with digital solutions. Since its launch in December 1999, Net4Music's Internet technology has rejuvenated the distribution of sheet music, allowing for secure downloads of the world's largest collection of digital sheet music files in all music genres, each one protected by the company's own copyright protection system. The merger with Coda, now the Coda Music Division of Net4Music Inc., brings together the best of digital content creation, digital distribution and solutions to increase revenue opportunities for composers and publishers. Finale(R) is the world's best-selling music notation software product, and is widely regarded as the music publishing industry's notation standard. SmartMusic Studio(R) is a comprehensive interactive music practice system that listens to musicians sing or play and follows spontaneous tempo changes. With these technologies and a host of other innovative services for professional musicians, music educators, students and hobbyists, Net4Music Inc. is poised to transform and improve from end to end the way musicians create, secure, distribute, learn and play music around the world.

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