Arthur Paul Schmidt (April 1, 1846May 5, 1921) was a music publisher in the United States. The
Library of Congress has a collection of his company's archives.
He was born in
Altona section of
Hamburg, Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1866 and worked for the
G. D. Russell publishing house in Boston before opening his own retail and foreign music importing business in 1876, A.P. Schmidt Company. It had offices in New York City and
Leipzig, Germany and was successful publishing works by American composers. Schmidt published work by
George Whitefield Chadwick (Symphony no.2, op.21, the first orchestral score that was both written by an American composer and issued an American publisher),
Amy Beach,
Arthur Bird,
Arthur Foote,
Henry Kimball Hadley,
Edward McDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites '' Woodland Sketches'', ''Sea Pieces'' and ''N ...
,
Harriet P. Sawyer, and
Anice Potter Terhune.
After his death, the firm was acquired by
Summy-Birchard Company of Evanston, Illinois in 1960.
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References
American music publishers (people)
1846 births
1921 deaths
German emigrants to the United States
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