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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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1CARL FISCHER, INC.
3This New York company, 32 founded by Carl Fischer in 1872, opened its Boston branch in 1908. This is a retail store located at [address hidden] It is also the Boston representative of the Buescher Band Instrument Company of Elkhart, Indiana.
5This firm is best known for its orchestra and band publications as it has the largest violin, orchestra and band catalogs in the United States. What is not so well known is that it has good pianoforte and vocal catalogs. In 1930 its Manual of School Music of four sections—I. Orchestra Music, II. Band Music, III. Choral Music, IV. General, Miscellaneous, Instruments and Music Literature—appeared in response to the growth of school music throughout the country.
7A great contribution of this house has been its seven volume publication, The Master School of Modern Pianoforte Players and Virtuosi, by Alberto Jonas in collaboration with many of the best experts as editors. It took eight years to prepare the first volume of this work of pianoforte study which came out in 1922. The last appeared in 1929.
9This company publishes all the works of Fritz Kreisler and Mischa Elman, and original songs by Rachmaninoff, Leo Ornstein and Clarence White, the colored composer and violinist. It was also the first company under Olin Downes' leadership to publish Russian songs with both Russian and English texts by such composers as Arensky and Rimsky-Korsakoff.
11The publications of this firm are treated in some 200 catalogs, thematic lists and leaflets covering every class of vocal and instrumental music.
13Since October 1930 this house has been the American representative of the Oxford University Press.
15This concern, although a New York house, is included in this book because it has been publishing more works of New England composers since the establishment of its Boston Branch. 35
1732 For further information about its founder and early beginnings see Fisher, William Arms. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States 1783-1933 pp. 105-7.
1833 Statement of Mr. Burgstaller, manager of the Boston branch.
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