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A.P. Schmidt Company Archives, 1869-1958 [collection]

Title

A.P. Schmidt Company Archives, 1869-1958 [collection]

Dates Created

Span: 1869-1958

Bulk: 1895-1920

Language

English

Form

collection

Physical Description

212 ft.

514 boxes

Abstract

Arthur P. Schmidt was born in Altona, Germany in 1846, and came to the United States in 1866. He worked for the G.D. Russell publishing house in Boston before opening his own retail and foreign music importing business in 1876. The A.P. Schmidt Company soon gained a reputation for publishing works of American composers. With branches in New York from 1894 to 1937, and in Leipzig from 1889 to 1910, it became one of the largest music publishing and importing firms in the United States. Schmidt published large-scale orchestral works of American composers when no one else would, and played a significant role in the development and dissemination of American music.

Contents Note

Music, mostly manuscript, some printed (295 boxes); business papers (219 boxes), including correspondence, legal files, financial records, catalogs, iconography, and publications records.

Preferred Citation

A.P. Schmidt Company Archives, Music Division, Library of Congress

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Subjects

Music Publishers
American Composers
Women Composers
Schmidt, A.P.
Beach, Amy
Chadwick, George Whitefield
Foote, Arthur
Branscombe, Gena
Parker, Horatio
Paine, John Knowles
MacDowell, Edward
Torjussen, Trygve
Rogers, Clara Kathleen
Risher, Anna Priscilla
Strong, Templeton
Metcalf, John W.
Marston, G. W.
Lynes, Frank
Lang, Margaret Ruthven
Harris, Cuthbert
Hadley, Henry K.
Grant-Schaefer, G. A.
Godowsky, Leopold
Ganz, Rudolph
Friml, Rudolf
Dennée, Charles
Daniels, Mabel
Cole, Rossetter G.
Bohm, Carl
Bauer, Marion
Barbour, Florence Newell
Ballantine, Edward
Ambrose, Paul
MacDowell, Marian

Call Number

ML31.A2

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Finding Aid

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu2005.wp.0035.pdf

Last Updated: 08-23-2012