AntonDiabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.
Harry Von Tilzer was an American composer, songwriter, publisher and vaudeville performer.
Efrem Zimbalist was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler was a German-born American violinist and composer.
James Lord Pierpont was an American songwriter, arranger, organist, Confederate States soldier, and composer. Pierpont wrote and composed "Jingle Bells" in 1857, originally titled "The One Horse Open Sleigh".
P. P. Werlein (1812–1885) was an American music publisher, piano dealer, and musical instrument retailer based in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 19th century. Among other Civil War songs, he published the sheet music for "Dixie". The retail music stores that he founded, Werlein's for Music, were among the largest in the American South during much of the more than 150 year existence of the stores.
John Hill Hewitt was an American composer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his songs about the American South, including "A Minstrel's Return from the War", "The Soldier's Farewell", "The Stonewall Quickstep", and "Somebody's Darling". His output during the American Civil War earned him the epithets "Bard of the Stars and Bars" and "Bard of the Confederacy".
"Stonewall Jackson's Way" is a poem penned during the American Civil War that later became a well-known patriotic song of the Confederate States and the Southern United States. It became very popular, but its authorship was unknown until almost 25 years later.
J. B. Cramer & Co. was an English musical instrument manufacturing, music-publishing and music-selling business in London, founded in 1824 by the musician Johann Baptist Cramer. Its New Bond Street premises closed in 1964 when the company was taken over by Kemble & Co.
Benjamin Carr was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher.
John Cole was a British-born American music printer, publisher and composer based in Baltimore.
The music publishing firm of Miller & Beacham was formed by William Miller and Joseph R. Beacham in 1853 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1862, they purchased the Baltimore firm of John Cole. Miller had previously purchased the firm of F. D. Benteen in 1838. Miller & Beacham was one of the most popular publishers during the American Civil War, and their catalogue included "Maryland! My Maryland!".
Oliver Ditson was an American businessman and founder of Oliver Ditson and Company, one of the major music publishing houses of the late 19th century.
P. Jurgenson was, in the early twentieth century, the largest publisher of classical sheet music in Russia.
Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano composed by Austrian-American violinist Fritz Kreisler. The three pieces are titled Liebesfreud, Liebesleid, and Schön Rosmarin.
Nikolai Vasilievich Artsybushev was a Russian Empire jurist, music publisher and promoter, and minor composer. His name is sometimes seen as Artsibushev, Artsybuchev, Artzibushev, Artzybushev, Artchibousheff, Arcybusev, etc.
Edmund Braham was a pianist, composer, and publisher active in the United States after 1895.
S. Brainard Sons was a music publisher, music periodical publisher, and musical instrument retailer based in Cleveland, Ohio and then Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in 1836 by Silas Brainard with Henry J. Mould. The business published music and songbooks including political and patriotic music. Brainard also published the periodical Western Musical World which was eventually renamed Brainard's Musical World. The Library of Congress has a collection of their sheet music. The New York Public Library has copies of their periodical in its collection.
