Edward Mack (c. 1826–1882), also known as E. Mack, was a German-American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

known mainly for his military march music. Mack composed the music for ''I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins'' (1869), with the

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credited to "A Lady". He also composed the

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''That Young Man Across the Way'' (1874). Mack also composed music that celebrated the early popularity of bicycles, including ''The Velocipede Gallop'' and ''The Cyclopede Waltz''.

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19th-Century California Sheet MusicKeffer Collection of Sheet Music
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Works by Edward Mack
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