Edwin F. Kalmus (December 5, 1893 – April 30, 1989) was an Austrian-born American music publisher.

Early life

Edwin F. Kalmus was born in

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Career

In 1926, he founded his eponymous publishing house in New York City which quickly became one of the largest self-contained publishing houses in the United States. Although several contemporary American works were issued in the 1930s, Kalmus' enterprise increasingly concentrated in publishing classical works that had entered the

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in the US, making them widely available in inexpensive reprint editions. After moving the firm to

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in 1971, Kalmus sold the study score, vocal, piano and chamber music titles to Belwin-Mills (1976), though the original company remained independent and continues to publish orchestra, band, and chamber music from its new headquarters in

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. Divisions and imprints of the Boca Raton firm include The Well-Tempered Press, Masters Music Publications, and Klavier Records. In January 2008, the

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music publisher Ludwig Music Publications was purchased and Masters Music division was renamed LudwigMasters Publications.

Legacy

The Belwin-Mills controlled portion, subsequently taken over by Columbia Pictures Publications, Warner Brothers Publications and ultimately Alfred Music, continues to publish music with the Kalmus name under the Kalmus Classic Series imprint, the vast majority consisting of inexpensive reprints of old editions now in the

References

External links

Edwin F. Kalmus, LC
website of the independent company specializing in classical orchestra music.
LudwigMasters Publications
website of the Ludwig Masters division
Klavier Music Productions
website of the Klavier division
Kalmus.com
is a retail distributor of both the Edwin F. Kalmus orchestral materials and the (Belwin-Mills/Alfred) ''Kalmus Classic Series'' publications 1893 births 1989 deaths American music publishers (people) Sheet music publishers (people) Opera publishing companies {{US-music-bio-stub