G. Schirmer, Inc.
Parent company Wise Music Group | | |
Founded | 1861 | |
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Founder | Gustav Schirmer Sr. | |
Country of origin | United States | |
Headquarters location | New York City | |
Publication types | Sheet music, books | |
Fiction genres | Music | |
Official website | www |
G. Schirmer, Inc. is an American classical music publishing company based in
History
The company was founded in 1861 in the United States by German-born Gustav Schirmer Sr. (1829–1893), the son of a German immigrant.[2] In 1891, the company established its own engraving and printing plant. The next year it inaugurated the Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics. The Musical Quarterly, the oldest academic journal on music in the U.S.,[citation needed] was founded by Schirmer in 1915 together with musicologist Oscar Sonneck, who edited the journal until his death in 1928. In 1964, Schirmer acquired Associated Music Publishers (BMI) which had built up an important catalog of American composers including Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, Walter Piston, and William Schuman, adding to a Schirmer's ASCAP roster which had already included Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Virgil Thomson, as well as composers from the earlier part of the century such as Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Dee Libbey, Charles Martin Loeffler, John Alden Carpenter, and Percy Grainger.
The company was owned by the Schirmer family for over 100 years until
As the sale of Schirmer did not include The Musical Quarterly, the future of the journal remained uncertain until its transition in 1989 to publisher
Composers published by the company
The Schirmer/AMP catalog includes composers such as John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Gabriela Lena Frank, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, Leon Kirchner, Peter Lieberson, André Previn, Gertrude Ross, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, Du Yun, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Joan Tower.[4]
The company also publishes The G. Schirmer Manual of Style and Usage. G. Schirmer is a member of the Music Sales Group of Companies, the
References
- ^ New York Times. May 16, 1986. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ^ Robinson, John (February 1, 2000). "Fit to Print: A "Hyperhistory" of the current state of American music publishing". New Music Box. Retrieved Dec 19, 2021.
- New York Times. June 13, 1992. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1949). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. p. 570.
External links
- Schirmer.com, official homepage
- ArtistsHouseMusic.org (interview with Peggy Monastra on G. Schirmer Music Publishers)
- G. Schirmer, Inc.: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (publisher page)