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Alan Crawford

Alan Crawford (music publisher) Australian music publisher who formed the sales and programming company for Radio Atlanta

Jacques Moderne

Jacques Moderne - Giacomo Moderno (Pinguente, Istria (now Buzet, Croatia), c.1495–1500 – Lyons, after 1560) was an Italian-born music publisher active in France in the Renaissance Era.

Martin Anderson

Martin Anderson (music publisher), founder of Toccata Press and Toccata Classics, London, U.K.; music journalist, writer and critic

Oakley Haldeman

Oakley Haldeman (July 17, 1909 - December 17, 1986) was a songwriter ("Here Comes Santa Claus"), composer, author and the general manager for a music publisher.


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Artie Matthews

In early 1913 music publisher John Stark heard Matthews and offered him 50 dollars each for any original rags he submitted for publication.

August Jaeger

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Jaeger met Elgar through his employment at the London music publisher Novello.

Bartholf Senff

Barholf Senff (September 2, 1815 - June 25, 1900) was an eminent German music publisher from Friedrichshall, Coburg.

Benjamin Carr

He was "decidedly the most important and prolific music publisher in America during the 1790s (as well as one of its most distinguished composers), conducting, in addition to his Philadelphia business, a New York branch from 1794 to 1797, when it was acquired by James Hewitt" (Wolfe, 1980, p. 43).

Brooks Bowman

A New York music publisher offered the team a contract, but before it was signed Brooks Bowman died on October 17, 1937 when a car in which he was riding crashed into a stone wall on Cat Rock Road near Garrison, New York.

Carter-Lewis and the Southerners

The early 1960s saw the rise of the Liverpool Sound, and Carter and Lewis recorded copies of the latest group hits and performed them for the BBC Light Programme's shows Easy Beat and Saturday Club; working with jazz musicians such as Marion Montgomery, Marion Ryan and session musicians such as Kenny Clare (drums) and Roy Deltrice (bass), under the direction of their music publisher Freddy Webb of Southern Music.

Chandos Records

Chandos Records arose from a band music publisher Chandos Music, founded in 1963, and Chandos Productions, a record production company which produced LPs for Classics for Pleasure, and, especially, RCA's work in the UK.

Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert

Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert (c.1720- Paris 1774) was a French music publisher who also composed some short cantatas in the rococo style known as cantatilles.

Drifting and Dreaming

Lyrics are by Haven Gillespie, music is by Egbert Van Alstyne and Erwin Roeder Schmidt (1890–1966), and Loyal B. Curtis (1877–1947), L.B. Curtis, Music Publisher, New York.

Edward Purcell

Edward Henry Purcell (died 1765), English organist, printer, and music publisher

Ernst Roth

Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.

Fritz Simrock

Friedrich August Simrock, better known as Fritz Simrock (January 2, 1837 in Bonn – August 20, 1901 in Ouchy) was a German music publisher who inherited a publishing firm from his grandfather Nikolaus Simrock.

Helen Ernstone

She was the fourth daughter of Adam Joseph Schott (1794–1864), the youngest of five children of Bernhard Schott, the founder of German music publisher (B. Schott's Söhne).

Herb Abramson

He left Atlantic Records in December 1958, selling his stake in the company to now ex-wife Miriam Bienstock (who married music publisher Freddy Bienstock) and Nesuhi Ertegün.

Ivanhoé

The music was adapted, with the composer's permission, by the music-publisher Antonio Pacini from Rossini's operas Semiramide, La Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Tancredi and Zelmira in order to introduce his music to Paris.

Jean Aberbach

After the brothers sold the business in 1936, Jean began working in the US as an agent for French music publisher Francis Salabert, while Julian remained in Paris.

John Hearne

John Michael Hearne (fl. late 20th century), British music publisher and musician

Lancaster Catholic High School

Gary P. Gilroy, 1976, composer, arranger, music publisher, California State University Fresno Director of Bands

Richard Hall

Rick Hall (born 1932), American record producer, recording studio owner, music publisher and songwriter

Roger Murrah

Roger Murrah (born November 20, 1946 in Athens, Alabama) is a songwriter and music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama.

Ross Jungnickel

Ross Jungnickel (1875-1962) was an American music publisher and arranger, and founder of a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a precursor to the modern organization of that name.

Shalom Hanoch

In London Shalom signed a contract with producer and music publisher Dick James, who worked with Elton John that time.

Song plugger

Music publisher Frank Harding has been credited with innovating the sales method.

Stranger on the Shore

One of songwriter and music publisher Robert Mellin's major songwriting success came in 1962, when he wrote lyrics for Acker Bilk's instrumental smash "Stranger on the Shore," allowing it to be covered by vocal acts like Andy Williams and the Drifters.

The Vehicle

After signing with European printed music publisher Music Sales Group, Detroit was paired with producer Larry Klein to work on Detroit's first studio album since Dancing Madly Sideways in 2001, which resulted in the creation of the album Skin I'm In, which is currently due for release in 2014.

Touch Music

They also are a UK-based music publisher, with such composers as Oren Ambarchi, Leif Elggren, Christian Fennesz, Soliman Gamil, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Geir Jenssen, Stephan Mathieu, Phill Niblock, Robert Hampson, BJNilsen (alias Hazard), Rosy Parlane, Peter Rehberg, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Chris Watson and Jana Winderen on their roster.

Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy

The collection started as a single book compiled and published by Henry Playford who had succeeded his father John Playford as the leading music publisher of the period.