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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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1[address hidden] There it now consists of retail, wholesale and mail order selling, with customers located as far away as the Orient, South America and Australia.
3The New York house, G. Schirmer, Inc., published largely classical and standard works such as "Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics," containing many of the most popular numbers of "Peter's Edition," for which it had been exclusive agent, and a "Collection of Operas and Operettas in Vocal Score" consisting of standard works new and old. Consequently the Boston Music Company has featured music of the better type of modern composers in its own publishing. At the present time its catalog comprises vocal music, including octavo choruses, and pianoforte, organ and orchestra music, consisting of more copyright numbers than many catalogs.
5In addition it took over in 1919 the Hatch Music Company catalog of easy pianoforte compositions and in 1925 the catalog of C. W. Thompson. Since 1922 it has had the exclusive agency of Carrie Jacobs-Bond's compositions. It is also the American Agency for publications of the English firm Winthrop Rogers, Ltd., and is the eastern representative of and closely affiliated with the Willis Music Company of Cincinnati, noted for its educational school music. Through its connections the Boston Music Company carries operettas, cantatas and orchestral music, particularly for schools.
7Gustave Schirmer, Jr. was the first publisher to recognize Ethelbert Nevin's talent as he published in 1888 his three songs Opus 3—Deep in a Rose's Glowing Heart, One Spring Morning and Doris. Nevin's widely popular Sketch Book was issued this same year and followed in 1891 with Water Scenes containing the enormously popular Narcissus.27
9In his book One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States Mr. Fisher has the following interesting account of how The Rosary by Nevin came to be one of the Boston Music Company's copyright numbers. "When Nevin wrote The Rosary he happened to be in New York and so submitted it to Rudolph Schirmer. The latter saw his brother Gustave the next day and handing him the manuscript said to him 'Here's a charming little song which I think you should be permitted to publish in the Boston Music Company catalog for you have most of Mr. Nevin's other compositions.' With these words he turned over to G. Schirmer
1127 Fisher, William Arms. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States p. 123.
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