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G. Schirmer, Inc. is an American classical music publishing company based in New York City, founded in 1861.The oldest active music publisher in the United States, [1] Schirmer publishes sheet music for sale and rental, and represents some well-known European music publishers in North America, such as the Music Sales Affiliates ChesterNovello, Breitkopf & Härtel, Sikorski and many Russian and ...
Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. – 1571 Broadway, New York, New York (sold in bankruptcy to Mills Music in 1929) M. Witmark & Sons, Inc. – 144 W. 37th St, New York, New York Founded in 1881 as the Thomas B. Harms Music Publishing Company, [2] T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc., was eventually incorporated in New York and changed its ...
Carl Fischer Music. Carl Fischer Music is a sheet music publisher. It was founded in 1872 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City as a musical instrument repair shop. Except for a brief period in the early 1930s, it has alwasy been the family-owned business of the Fischer-Connor family. In 2013, the company moved to the Wall Street ...
The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genres such as jazz, rock, soul music, R&B, funk, and the urban blues, as well as classical and art music. It is the birthplace of hip hop, garage house, boogaloo, doo wop, bebop, punk rock, disco, and new wave.
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally, it referred to a specific location on West 28th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District [ 2] of Manhattan, as commemorated by a ...
Downtown Music Holdings is an independent rights management and music services company based in the US State of New York. It comprises 10 businesses. All divisions live under the Downtown Music Holdings umbrella and are split between two verticals, Creator and Business (Downtown Music).
Leo Feist. Leopold Feist (January 3, 1869, New York City or Mount Verson, New York [ 2] – June 21, 1930, Mount Vernon, New York ), was a pioneer in the popular music publishing business. [ 3] In 1897, Feist founded and ran a music publishing firm bearing his name. In the 1920s, at the height of the golden age of popular music, his firm was ...
The term music publisher originally referred to publishers who issued hand-copied or printed sheet music. Examples (who are actively in business as of June 2019) include: Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, Germany, founded 1719. Schott, Mainz, Germany, 1770. Oxford University Press, University of Oxford, England, founded 18th century.