"Schirmer Music" redirects here. Not to be confused with Schirmer Records.
G. Schirmer, Inc. is an American classical music publishing company based in New York City, founded in 1861. The oldest active music publisher in the United States, Schirmer publishes sheet music for sale and rental, and represents some well-known European music publishers in North America, such as the Music Sales Affiliates ChesterNovello, Breitkopf & Härtel, Sikorski and many Russian and former Soviet composers' catalogs.[1]
G. Schirmer, Inc.
A Schirmer cover page of several of Bériot's works.
The company was owned by the Schirmer family for over 100 years until Macmillan, a major book publisher, purchased it in 1968. Macmillan then sold G. Schirmer (except for its reference division, now part of Cengage Learning) to its current owner, Robert Wise, in 1986, the owner of popular music publisher, Music Sales Group, Inc. According to a spokesman, the purchase price was around US$7 million.[1] The Music Sales Group changed its name to Wise Music Group in February 2020.
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 Oxford University Press. In 1986 Schirmer also joined with the Hal Leonard Corporation, a print distributor of jazz and popular music, who became the sole distributors of Schirmer's printed music. The last member of the family named for the founder was Gus Schirmer the 4th, a theatrical director, producer, and agent, who died in 1992 at the age of 73.[3]
^ ab"G. Schirmer Is Sold". 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.
^"Gus Schirmer Jr., 73, a Director, Producer and Promoter of Theater". 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)
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