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The Story of the House of Witmark
From Ragtime to Swingtime
By Isidore Witmark, Isaac Goldberg · 1939

Story of one of the major tin pan alley publishers

Absolutely fascinating. Every page is a joy to read. It is filled with details of the music business in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that are not found anywhere else -- all presented in style

M. Witmark & Sons was a leading publisher of sheet music for the United States "Tin Pan Alley" music industry.


A piece of music published by Witmark and Sons in 1890.
The firm of Marcus Witmark & Sons was established in New York City in 1886. The father, Marcus Witmark, was the legal head of the company; but from the beginning it was run by his sons Isidore, Julius, and Jay, who were under legal age when the company started (ranging in age from 17 to 14 years old). They started out publishing their own compositions. They were adept at plugging songs, and within a few years were publishing the works of such composers as Victor Herbert, George M. Cohan, Ben Harney, Pauline B. Story, and John Walter Bratton.

Witmark originated the practice of giving free "professional copies" of their new music to famous and established singers and bands, which proved so successful an advertising method that it was copied by the rest of the music publishers.

When the International Copyright Law was passed in 1891, Witmark pioneered publishing versions of British music in the United States and arranging for American hits to be published in the UK.

Isaac Goldberg (1887 – July 14, 1938) was an American journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Born in Boston to Jewish parents, he studied at Harvard University and received a BA degree in 1910, a MA degree in 1911 and a PhD in 1912. He traveled to Europe as a journalist during World War I writing for the Boston Evening Transcript.[1]

He wrote biographies of H. L. Mencken, Havelock Ellis, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, and George Gershwin, books on theatrical and musical appreciation, books of Spanish -American Literature and contributed articles for many magazines. He also founded, published, and edited a monthly news magazine called Panorama.[2]

He was fluent in Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese and translated a variety of literary works into English. He received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1932 to write a history of Spanish and Portuguese literature in America.

Page count:480
Published:1939
Publisher:Lee Furman
Language:English


CONDITION VERY GOOD 
ORIGINAL NOT A REPRINT First Edition 1939 by L. Furman 480 pages w numerous b/w photo plates hardcover no dust jacket. Book in very clean condition. Interior clean, no markings, odor or animal hairs, spine has slight fading, exlibris on flyleaf, photo plate paper has light foxing ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price.

 

 

 

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