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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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1New England composers who have been introduced or many of whose works have been published, include—
3Julius Chaloff
4Bainbridge Crist
5Richard Czervonky formerly of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
6Henry Hadley
8Maude Cuney Hare
9Werner Josten
10Edmund Severn
12Songs and pianoforte pieces.
13Majority of his songs.
14Songs and violin selections.
15Songs and pianoforte, violin and orchestra works.
16Creole songs in creole patois.
17Songs.
18Songs and pianoforte pieces.
20Some of Max Heinrich's own songs and his revision of the pioneer master editions of the songs of Brahms, Schubert and Schumann were also brought out by this company. In addition this firm has purchased the catalogs of two of the more important earlier Boston publishers, Thompson and Odell and Jean White.34
22E. C. SCHIRMER MUSIC COMPANY
24Edward Schirmer, a younger brother of Gustave Schirmer, came to the United States in August 1840. In 1878 his thirteen year old son, Ernest C., became an apprentice in his Uncle's music store at [address hidden], New York. In October 1891 he became business manager of the Boston Music Company and was admitted to partnership in January 1902. In 1917 he withdrew and established E. C. Schirmer with the publication of "The Concord Series," a graded series of school textbooks edited by Thomas Whitney Surette and Archibald T. Davison.35 The name for the series came from Mr. Surette's Summer School held in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1915. From the company's inception it has been associated with the Summer School, opening a store in Concord for the period of the session. Its Boston address is [address hidden]
26As its catalog shows, the company's aim has always been the publication of only the finest quality music.
28Although this firm has specialized in choral music for the educational field it was not included in the group of "Educational Publishers" because it has expanded the scope of its publications to
3034 For further information about these concerns see p. 22 for Thompson and Odell and pp. 17-18 for Jean White.
3135 Fisher, William Arms. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States p. 124.
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