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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1music. One of their biggest selling numbers was The Butterfly, a pianoforte piece by Theodore Bendix.64
3The J. B. Millet Co. was listed as a book publisher at [address hidden] in 1893, at [address hidden] in 1901, and at [address hidden] in 1910. The name was changed about 1916 to J. B. Millet Publishing Co. The firm moved about 1917 to [address hidden] where it remained until the name disappeared from the city directory of 1927.
5In the latter part of the century the J. B. Millet Co. published the classical type of music, vocal, pianoforte, organ and orchestra. Their books, Half Hours with the Best Composers edited by Karl Klauser, were published in 1894. The Universal Library of Music, first copyrighted in 1894, had an introduction by George Proctor of the New England Conservatory. This contained Graded Masterpieces in Composition and copyright piano works of such American composers as Lowell Mason, Reginald DeKoven, Richard Hoffman, Edward MacDowell, Arthur Whiting, George Chadwick, Arthur Foote, Margaret Lang, Ethelbert Nevin, Horatio Parker, Edgar Kelley. The rights to both publications, which were examples of high grade printing and beautiful binding, were taken over in 1910 by the Musician's League of America.
7They also published Famous Composers and Their Music edited by Theodore Thomas, John Knowles Paine and Karl Klauser. The 1891 and 189465 editions were both in three volumes. The "1901 Extra Edition" consisted of sixteen volumes. Six of these contained biographies and discussion of the music of masters of the Netherland, Italian, German, French, Russian, Polish, Norwegian, English and American Schools. They were illustrated with pictures of the composers and beautiful colored plates of rare and valuable old instruments. The writeups were by such Americans as Mrs. Ole Bull, John S. Dwight, W. S. B. Mathews, H. M. Ticknor, Louis C. Elson, Henry E. Krehbiel, Arthur Foote and Philip Hale; by such English people as Mrs. Julian Marshall and Edward Dannreuthers; by such Frenchmen as Adolphe Jullien and Arthur Pougin; and such Germans as Wilhelm Langhaus and Philipp Spitta. The remaining volumes contained selected music of famous composers whose music had been discussed.
964 Information supplied by Fred Schmidt.
1065 Though the firm name does not appear in the Boston Directory till 1893 a copy of the 1894 edition in the possession of the John Worley Company refers to the 1891 edition.
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