Schirmer, Ernest Charles
Schirmer, Ernest Charles
Schirmer, Ernest Charles, American music publisher; b. Mt. Vernon, N.Y., March 15, 1865; d. Waban, Mass., Feb. 15, 1958. After serving as business manager (1891–1902) and partner (1902–17) of the Boston Music Co., he founded the E.C. Schirmer Music Co. in 1921. It published the Concord Series, the Choral Repertory of the Harvard Univ. Glee Club, Radcliffe, Vassar, and Wellesley Coll. Choral Music, the Polyphonic and “A Cappella” Libraries, the St. Dunstan Edition of Sacred Music, and treatises on harmonic analysis, musical theory, and music appreciation. The firm enjoyed a world market for its publications, with agencies in London and Hamburg.
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