- Dick James
Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick, 12 December 1920, in East End, London - died 1 February 1986) was the singer of the "Robin Hood" and "The Buccaneers" theme songs, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of renowned record producer George Martin. - Irving Mills
Irving Mills (January 161894-April 211985) was a jazz music publisher. Mills was born in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919. Between 1919 and 1965, when they sold Mills Music, Inc., they built and became the largest independent music publisher in the world. - Buddy Killen
Buddy Killen (born November 23, 1933 - November 1, 2006) was a record producer and music publisher, and a former owner of Dial Records and Tree International, the largest country music publishing business, before he sold it in 1989. He was also the owner of Killen Music Group, involved with more diverse genres of music, such as pop and rap. - Edwin F. Kalmus
Edwin F. Kalmus (1893 - 1989) was an American music publisher. In 1926, he founded his eponymous publishing house in New York 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 which had entered the public domain in the USA, making them widely available in inexpensive reprint editions. - Freddy Bienstock
Freddy Bienstock is an American music publisher. __NOTOC_ - Tim Whitsett
Tim Whitsett (b. 1943, Jackson, Mississippi) is a music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. His lifelong association with the music business began professionally as a sixteen-year-old recording artist signed to Imperial Records. With his band, The Imperials (later renamed the The Imperial Show Band), he recorded over twenty singles in a variety of genres (R&B, Pop, Instrumental) for a number of labels, including Epic, Ace, Atlas, Capitol, … - Harry Shannon
Harry Shannon has been an actor, a singer, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher, a VP of Carolco Pictures (“Terminator 2,” “Total Recall,” “Rambo”), and worked as a free-lance Music Supervisor on films such as “Basic Instinct” and “Universal Soldier.” He holds an MA in Psychology and is currently a counselor in private practice. - Bill Martin
Bill Martin (born William Wylie Macpherson, 9 November 1938, Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish songwriter, music publisher and impresario. - Jack Robinson
Jack Robinson, born january 17, 1938 in Seattle, Washington, is a songwriter and a music publisher. His father, Bert, was English, his mother, Rena, Canadian. Jack grew up in a musical family : His father was an amateur violinist, his mother a professional singer. Jack's three uncles and his aunt were professional musicians. But Jack wasn't interested. He studied journalism and American literature at the University of Washington. - Paul Dresser
Johann Paul Dreiser Jr better known as Paul Dresser (born April 22, 1857 - died January 31, 1906) was an important American songwriter in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Baptized on May 24, 1857 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Terre Haute, Dresser is most noted for composing what would become the state song of Indiana, a song called "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away". - Henry Playford
Henry Playford (1657 - c. 1707) was the younger son of John Playford and his only known surviving child. He was a music publisher and was in business with his father. He lived in Arundel Street in London and had a shop near Temple Church 1685-1695 then in Temple Change 1695-1704 and finally in Middle Temple Gate in 1706. Many of his publications were of a transient nature and were aimed at favourite songs and instrumental pieces for public entertainments, … - J. Fred Helf
J. Fred Helf (born 1870?-died 1915?) was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century. Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan. In October 1910 his music publishing company, J. Fred Helf Music, filed for bankruptcy with Elihu Root, Jr. acting as receiver. - Ludwig Rellstab
Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab (April 13, 1799-November 27, 1860) was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin. The first seven songs of Franz Schubert's "Schwanengesang" have words by Rellstab. His work was also set to music by Franz Liszt. He was the son of the music publisher and composer Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab. He is also known to have given Ludwig van Beethoven's opus 27 no. 2 sonata its famous nickname, … - George Wilkinson
George Wilkinson (November 5, 1783 - 1855) was an English music publisher, and piano and candle manufacturer. Wilkinson was the youngest son of Charles Wilkinson. In 1797 he apprenticed to London music seller and publisher Francis Broderip, former partner in Longman & Broderip piano manufacturing business which had gone bankrupt in 1795. In 1805 Wilkinson took over his oldest brother Charles' half partnership in the company, … - Tony MacAulay
Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Instone, April 21, 1944, England) is an author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career. In the early 1960s he worked as a song plugger for Essex Publishing, then moved to Pye Records as a record producer. It was here that he had his first major success with The Foundations, when they recorded 'Baby, Now That I've Found You', … - Johann André
Johann André was a German musician, composer and music publisher. In 1774, as the patriarch of a Huguenot family, André founded one of the first music publishing houses to be independent of a bookshop, in Offenbach am Main. Among his closest friends in Offenbach were Goethe, at the time of his engagement to Anna Elisabeth Schönemann, … - Johann Anton André
Johann Anton André was a German composer and music publisher. André wrote operas, symphonies, masses, and lieder, as well as a still unfinished "Lehrbuch der Tonsetzkunst" ("Textbook of the Art of Composition") in two volumes. In 1799, André purchased a large volume of Mozart's musical papers (the "Mozart-Nachlass") from his widow Constanze, and brought them to Offenbach. - Erwin Stein
Erwin Stein was an Austrian musician and writer, prominent as a pupil and friend of Schoenberg, with whom he studied between 1906 and 1910. He was one of Schoenberg’s principal assistants in organizing the Society for Private Musical Performances. - Mike Sammes
Mike Sammes was a musician and vocal session arranger. From 1955 to the 1970s, he was responsible for much of the backing vocals on pop music recorded in Britain. He began his interest in music by learning the cello at school, then worked briefly for the music publisher, Chappell & Company. After national service in the RAF in the late 1940s, he worked a variety of jobs until a fellow musician, Bill Shepherd, convinced him to form a group called The Coronets. - Murry Wilson
Murry Gage Wilson was an American musician and record producer, best remembered as father to Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys. Wilson was also the manager of their band the Beach Boys, and served as their music publisher. He was the husband of Audree Wilson. Wilson had a blue-collar background; as a young man, he worked at a Goodyear factory (where he lost an eye in an industrial accident), while unsuccessfully writing songs. - Johann Baptist Cramer
Johann Baptist Cramer (February 24, 1771, Mannheim - April 16, 1858, London), was an English musician of German extraction. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer (1743-1799), a famous London violinist and musical conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during the 18th and 19th centuries. Johann Baptist was brought to London as a child, and it was in London that the greater part of his musical efforts was exercised. - Will A. Heelan
Will A. Heelan was an American lyricist during the early 20th century. He collaborated with a number of composers and lyricists including E. P. Moran, Seymour Furth, J. Fred Helf and Harry Von Tilzer. - Misha Verbitsky
Misha Verbitsky (born 1969) is a Russian mathematician (for his scientific publications, see search results at "arxiv.org"). However, he is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher. Verbitsky's webzine ":LENIN:", started around 1997, is one of the oldest Russian online projects and has been hugely influential in the shaping of Russian counter-culture. - Deke Arlon
Deke Arlon is a music publisher and music manager. His clients have included record producer Christopher Neil, Caryl Brahms, Sheena Easton, Ron Grainer, Gerard Kenny, Elaine Paige, Ned Sherrin, Dennis Waterman, Helen Watson, Kenny Young, Marti Pellow, Richard Littlejohn and Ray Davies of The Kinks. - Max Abraham
Max Abraham was a German music publisher. Born in Danzig, Abraham became a partner in the C.F. Peters publishing house in 1863, and took over as its sole proprietor in 1888. He founded its Edition Peters, and was succeeded as head of the firm by his nephew, Henri Hinrichsen. He died in Leipzig. - Adolf Martin Schlesinger
Adolf Martin Schlesinger was a German music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century. Schlesinger was Jewish, originally being named Aaron Moses Schlesinger. He began in the book business in Berlin in 1795, and founded a music publishing house there in 1810. The firm expanded over the next decade to include leading composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Felix Mendelssohn. - Donald O. Johnston
Donald Oscar Johnston (born 1929) is a composer, music publisher and educator. He was born in Tracy, Minnesota. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and has composed choral works, orchestral works (including six symphonies), an opera, chamber music, and pieces for band. - P. P. Werlein
P. P. Werlein was an American music publisher based in New Orleans, Louisiana. At some point, the German-born Philip P. Werlein headed the music department at the Female Seminary of Clinton, Mississippi. However, music publishing became his main business when he entered the field in 1842 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1853, he moved operations to New Orleans, where he established a company called Ashbrand & Werlein at 93 Camp Street. - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab
Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab (February 27, 1759 - August 19, 1813) was a German composer, writer, music publisher, and critic living in Berlin. Rellstab was a very influential figure in Berlin's musical life. In his youth he studied keyboard with Johann Friedrich Agricola and composition with Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. He planned to continue his education with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg, when in 1779 he had to take over the printing business of his father. - Harry Pace
'Harry Herbert Pace (January 6, 1884, in Covington, Georgia to 1943, in Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American music publisher and insurance executive, and the founder of Black Swan Records. His father, Charles Pace, died when he was a baby so he was raised by his mother, Nancy Francis Pace. Pace finished elementary school at age twelve and seven years later graduated valedictorian of his class in Atlanta University. - Tony Hiller
Tony Hiller (born 30 July, 1927) is a British songwriter. Over 300 artists have recorded his songs including Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Andy Williams, Ray Stevens, The Miracles, The Hollies, Sonny and Cher, The Osmonds, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Anne Murray, Ed Bruce, The Fortunes, and the Brotherhood of Man. Born in London, England, he is best known for writing and/or producing numerous hits for Brotherhood of Man, including "United We Stand" (1970), … - William J. Kirkpatrick
William J. Kirkpatrick (February 27, 1838-September 20, 1921) was born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania to a schoolteacher and musician, Thomas Kirkpatrick. He was exposed to and given formal training in music at a very young age. In 1854, he moved to Philadelphia to study music and carpentry. It was here that he studied vocal music under Professor T. Bishop. Kirkpatrick was a versatile musician playing the cello, fife, flute, organ, and violin. - Edoardo Sonzogno
Edoardo Sonzogno (April 21, 1836-March 14, 1920) was an Italian publisher. A native of Milan, Sonzogno was the son of a businessman who owned a printing plant and bookstore; when he inherited the business upon his father's death he set about turning it into a publishing house, Sonzogno, which opened in 1874. The company specialized in producing cheap editions of early Italian music, and became celebrated for its one-act opera contest, … - Chris Braide
</gallery>;Chris Braide (born 6 February 1973 in Cheshire) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and music publisher. He has written songs for a variety of artists including Will Young's biggest selling single,Glenn Tilbrook (of Squeeze), Beverley Knight, Gareth Gates, Lisa Stansfield, Kylie Minogue, Simon Webbe, Jesse McCartney. - Nicolas Mori
Nicolas Mori (January 24, 1796-June 14, 1839) was an Anglo-Italian violinist, music publisher and conductor. Born in London, the son of an Italian wigmaker, he was a child prodigy, performing at the age of 7 at the King's Theatre on March 15, 1804. He was later patronized by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Dukes of Sussex & Cambridge. He studied under Pinto until 1804, then with François Hippolyte Barthélémon and finally with Viotti from 1808-1814. - William M. Treloar
William Mitchellson Treloar was an American music professor, composer, music publisher, and U.S. Representative from Missouri. Treloar was born near Linden, Wisconsin, and attended the local common schools. He moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1864 and attended its high school and then Iowa Wesleyan College. He moved to Missouri in 1872, where he began a career teaching music at Mount Pleasant College in Huntsville from 1872 to 1875. - James S Kerr
James S Kerr (dates unknown) was a Scottish music publisher. Kerr's "Merry Melodies" are the most popular collections of Scottish tunes ever published. Almost nothing is known of the publisher. "Kerr's First Collection of Merry Melodies for the Violin" (447 tunes) does not even carry a date, but is thought to be from 1870 to 1875. - Lewis Lavenu
Lewis Augustus Lavenu (c.1767-August 17, 1818) was a musician, music seller and publisher. Son of John Lavenu, Pastry chef to Stephen Fox, Lord Holland (brother of Charles James Fox), his father had opened a coffee house and tavern in Salisbury where he had taken over the assembly rooms where concerts were held for the local gentry and middle classes. Beginning as a violinist in the Covent Garden opera, Lavenu set up his "New Musical Warehouse" at 23, Duke Street, St. - John Truelove
John Truelove (b. 14 February 1968) is a British record producer, DJ, performer, music publisher and music entrepreneur. - Olea Crøger
Olea Crøger, the daughter of a pastor from Heddal, Norway collected and published old folk tunes. She started this work before the more famous work of Jørgen Moe and Magnus Brostrup Landstad. Over her life, she collected and published volumes of material which contributed significantly to the spirit of Norwegian romantic nationalism which grew in Norway in this period.
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