Why don't we talk about Arthur P. Schmidt?

 

Over the years that I have written my blog, Arthur P. Schmidt, publisher has been the topic of three of my postings.  His company, The Arthur P. Schmidt Co. of Boston, Leipzig and New York, was a premiere music publishing company of the era.  As I have said in my previous posts, Mr. Schmidt promoted American composers and in particular American women composers.  He was a person of vision, of musical integrity with his belief in our nation’s composers.  BRAVO, Mr. Schmidt.

Recently an October 2017 blog posting titled, “Why don’t we talk about Arthur P. Schmidt”? came to my attention.  The blog was written by a student at St. Olaf  College in Minnesota who was taking the course: Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music. 

 

What struck me about this posting was the sense of discovery, observation, understanding of the music world in the world of business, conclusions made and a new awareness of the important music publishing person, Arthur P. Schmidt. 

https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2017/10/23/why-dont-we-talk-about-arthur-p-schmidt/

Siriana, the blog author, has written a post that has direct effect on the understanding of our country’s music publishing industry during the late 19^th and into the mid 20^th century.  Required reading……indeed.

 Thank you Siriana.

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