Draft:Summy-Birchard Company

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Summy-Birchard Company was a music publisher in the United States.

History

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The Clayton F. Summy Company was founded in Chicago in 1888. It took over the Boston publisher of educational music C.C. Birchard & Co. in 1957 and became Summy-Birchard Company. Music pedagogist C. C. Birchard (1866 - 1946) founded that company in 1901.[1] The firm acquired Boston's A. P. Schmidt Company in 1960.[2] In 1969 it acquired McLaughlin & Reilly, a Boston publisher of Catholic music founded in 1903.[1]

It relocated from Evanston, Illinois to Princeton, New Jersey and became Birchtree Music Group. In 1988 it was acquired by Warner-Chappell.[3]

Its publishings include books for piano teachers and choral directors.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Marrocco, W. Thomas; Jacobs, Mark; Troutman, Leslie A. (2001). "Summy-Birchard". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27112. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  2. ^ "A.P. Schmidt Company archives". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  3. ^ "Birchard - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org.
  4. ^ http://worldcat.org/identities/nc-summy%20birchard%20company/
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