A.P. Schmidt Company

Arthur Paul Schmidt was born in Altona, Germany on April 1, 1846 and came to the United States in 1866. He worked for the G.D. Russell publishing house in Boston before opening his own retail and foreign music importing business in 1876. The A.P. Schmidt company soon gained a reputation for publishing works of many distinguished American composers. With branches in New York from 1894 to 1937 and in Leipzig from 1889 to 1910, it became one of the largest music publishing and importing firms in the United States. Mr. Schmidt died on May 5, 1921 but the firm continued until it was absorbed by the Summy-Birchard Company of Evanston, Illinois in 1960.

From the description of A.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 (bulk 1895-1920). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71129993