Arthur P. Schmidt

Historical Publication Info

cover 1890

Decorative cover 1905

Decorative cover 1914

1 History
2 Editions
3 Imprints, Agencies, Addresses
- 3.1 Addresses
4 Plate Numbers
- 4.1 A.P.S. Plate Numbers
- 4.2 S. Plate Numbers
5 Sources Consulted
6 See Also
7 Authority control

History

Arthur P. Schmidt (1846-1921) opened a music shop and publishing house in Boston in 1876 - not long after his arrival from Germany. The retail part of the business was sold thirteen years later. He was notable for his support of many American Composers; including members of the New England school such as Amy Beach, George Whitefield Chadwick, Arthur Foote, John Knowles Paine and Horatio Parker along with a great portion of MacDowell's œuvre. Among other achievements, Schmidt was the first American Publisher to publish an American symphony, Chadwick's Symphony No.2, in 1888. The company was acquired by Summy-Birchard in 1960.

Editions

Imprints, Agencies, Addresses

Addresses

In 1899: 146 Boylston Street, Boston. Also had Leipzig and New York branches at this time according to the cover of Metcalf's "Absent"; the New York City address was 136 Fifth Avenue.

Plate Numbers

Schmidt plate numbers were issued in a fairly regular chronological fashion. Many include the prefix "A.P.S.", though study scores sometimes employed a simple "S." Other issues appeared without any prefix. Some plate numbers include a number after a hyphen that refers to the number of music plates for the particular work. Some works, perhaps because they were coproduced, occurred with other plate prefixes (e.g. C., for a work that was published in co-ordination with August Cranz.)

A.P.S. Plate Numbers

Plate	Composer	Work	Year
1	Whitney	Deus Misereatur	1877
7	Salaman	T'amo d'amor dolcissimo (English tr. by Cragin, arr. by Osgood)	1877
18	Whitney	Processional Grand March	1877
41	Dana	It Was a Knight of Aragon	1878
77	Whiting	First Studies for the Organ, Book 2	1879
100	Whitney	Canon in Octave	1879
122	Whitney	Pastorale in G major	1880
164	Chadwick	Margarita	1881
165	Chadwick	Reiterlied	1881
196	Field	18 Nocturnes (No.5 edited by Oscar Weil)	1881
222	Orth	2 Piano Pieces (Scherzo)	1881
237	Reinecke	4 Piano Pieces, Op.129 (No.2)	1881
240	Backer-Grøndahl	Menuet (ed.J.Orth)	1881
246–48	Parker	3 Early Songs	1882
266	Raff	6 Morceaux, Op.85 (No.3: Cavatina arr. for organ by Samuel Brenton Whitney)	1882
272	Rheinberger	Gondoliera	1882
283	Chadwick	Song of the Viking	1882
300	Beach	4 Songs, Op.1 (No.1 With Violets)	1885
312	Schubert	Piano Sonata, D.894 (Menuetto, simpl. by G.P. Ritter)	1882
323	Paine	Hymn for Harvard Commencement	1883
335	Bach	Violin Partita No.1, BWV 1002 (No.4 arr. piano Saint-Saëns, ed.Foote)	1883
336	Brassin	Nocturne, Op.17 (ed. Foote)	1883
346	Paine	The Nativity, Op.38 (Vocal Score)	1883
365	Raff	6 Morceaux, Op.85 (No.3: Cavatina arr. for piano by G. P. Ritter)	1884
376	Raff	Angelens letzter Tag im Kloster, Op.27 (No.3, ed. George Marston)	1884
380 to 382	Chadwick	3 Little Songs, Op.11	1883
401	Turner	6 Studies in Double Thirds, Op.14	1883
415	Rogers	Scherzo, Op.15	1883
418 to 419	Turner	2 Syncopation Studies, Op.24	1884
422 to 426	Smith	Hommage à Edvard Grieg, Op.18	1884
458	Bargiel	8 Piano Pieces, Op.32 (No.1 edited by Arthur Foote)	1884
460	Paine	4 Songs, Op.40 (No.1)	1885
478	Norris	Cradle Song	1884
498	Kjerulf	6 Sange, Op.3 (No.1, translated by Elson)	1885
500	Foote	When Icicles Hang by the Wall	1884
503 to 505	Chadwick	3 Love Songs, Op.8	1882
509 to 510	Mills	2 Etudes de Concert, Op.15	1882
511 to 516	Chadwick	6 Characteristic Pieces, Op.7	1882
523	Dunham	Organ Sonata No.1, Op.10	1882
530	Chadwick	Spring Song, Op.9	1882
532	Chadwick	3 Anthems for Church Service, Op.6 (No.2)	1882
534	Paine	Phoebus, Arise!, Op.37 (Vocal Score)	1882
553	Raff	Symphony No.5, Op.177 (2d mvt. arr. for organ by Samuel Brenton Whitney)	1884
586 to 591	Rogers	6 Songs, Op.20	1884
636	Kjerulf	7 Sange, Op.11 (No.3, trans.Elson)	1885
645	Bach	6 Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 (Suite No.1, Courante arr. for piano by Arthur Foote)	1885
646 to 649	Smith	Echoes of Ye Olden Time, Op.21	1885
651 to 654	Foote	5 Pièces, Op.6	1885
655	Lavallée	Le Papillon, Étude de Concert	1884
656 to 658	Chadwick	3 Sacred Quartets, Op.13	1885
664	Godard	Mazurka No.2, Op.54	1884
668	Godard	Gavotte No.2, Op.81	1884
678	Reinecke	8 Kinderlieder, Op.37 (No.2, trans.Hazard)	1884
683	Scharwenka	3 Songs, Op.15 (No.3, trans. Elson)	1885
693	Foote	2 Pedal Studies	1885
698	Paine	4 Songs, Op.40 (No.2)	1885
708	Kjerulf	6 Sange, Op.3 (No.3)	1885
736 to 738	Foote	3 Songs, Op.10	1885
740	Delibes	Le roi s'amuse (VI. Passepied arr. for piano)	1885
773	Foote	The Farewell of Hiawatha, Op.11 (vocal score)	1886
807	Foote	5 Pièces, Op.6 (No.4)	1885
810	Chadwick	King Death	1885
812 to 815	Gilchrist	Une Petite Suite	1885
820	Gilchrist	A Love Song	1885
825	Gilchrist	Autumn Song, Schleifer 241	1885
847 to 851	Dennée	Suite Moderne, Op.8	1885
852 to 854	Dennée	3 Morceaux, Op.10	1885
855	Radecki	Tarantelle in F minor	1885
865	Kjerulf	5 Sange, Op.14 (No.3)	1884
867	Foote	Gavotte and Eclogue, Op.8 (Eclogue)	1886
887	Kjerulf	6 Franska romanser, Op.9 (No.1)	1885
908 to 910	Foote	3 Character Pieces, Op.9	1886
987	Parker	King Trojan, Op.8	1886
1091-5	Charles E. Tinney	Peace I Leave With You	1915
1142	Foote	4 Songs, Op.13 (No.3)	1887
1400, 1401	Foote	4 Songs, Op.13 (Nos.1 and 2)	1887
1423	Foote	4 Songs, Op.13 (No.4)	1887
1435 to 1437	Foote	Suite No.1, Op.15	(1887)
1551	Chadwick	3 Sacred Songs	1887
1552	Chadwick	Allah, F.201 (in D♭ major)	1887
1553	Chadwick	Allah, F.201 (in E major)	1887
1559	Chadwick	Symphony No.2, Op.21	1888
1572	Turner	Cello Sonata in F major, Op.34	1888
1639	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No.3, Op.37 (cadenza by Amy Beach)	1888
1967	MacDowell	Etude de Concert, Op.36	1889
2088	Chadwick	While Shepherds Watched	1889
2217-2	Gounod	Love Divine All Love Excelling	1891
2386	Chadwick	Phoenix Expirans (vocal score)	1892
2516	Chadwick	Lovely Rosabelle (vocal score)	1889
2517	Beach	Valse-Caprice, Op.4	1889
2543	Klein	Capriccio, Op.41	1889
2559 to 2561	MacDowell	Les orientales, Op.37	1889
2616a to 2617f	MacDowell	12 Etudes, Op.39	1890
2637	Beach	Mass in E-flat major, Op.5	1890
2638	Beach	Romance, Op.23	1893
2678	MacDowell	6 Little Pieces After J.S. Bach	1890
2683	MacDowell	6 Love Songs, Op.40	1890
2690	Foote	Violin Sonata, Op.20	1890
2703	Chadwick	The Pilgrims (vocal score)	1890
2711	Beach	Songs of the Sea, Op.10 (No.1)	1890
2751	Foote	12 Duets on Five Notes	1891
2766	Whiting	Dream Pictures, Op.19	1891
2794	Chadwick	Melpomene	1891
2810	Foote	Serenade, Op.25	1892
2811	Foote	Piano Quartet, Op.23	1892
2825	MacDowell	Barcarolle, Op.44	1892
2826	Foote	9 Studies for Piano, Op.27	1892
2837	Foote	11 Songs, Op.26	1892
2838	Foote	Francesca da Rimini, Op.24	1892
2849	Foote	The Skeleton in Armour, Op.28	1892
2870 to 2873	Beach	4 Sketches, Op.15	1892
2908	Rogers	Violin Sonata, Op.25	1893
2943	Foote	Suite No.2, Op.30	(1894)
2953	Beach	Ballade, Op.6	1894
2957	Beach	Children's Carnival, Op.25	1894
3240-46	Foote	Christ our Passover	1894
3259	Beach	Bal masqué, Op.22	1894
3530	Paine	Oedipus Tyrannus, Op.35 (Vocal Score)	1895
3357	Dennée	Suite de Ballet, Op.23 (No.4)	1895
3408 to 3410	Beach	3 Morceaux Caractéristiques, Op.28	(1894)
3765	Chadwick	Symphony No.3	1896
3829	Chadwick	The Lily Nymph	1895
3847	Dennée	Suite de Ballet, Op.23 (No.5)	1895
3895	Dennée	5 Etudes, Op.26 (No.2)	(1896)
4105	Foote	Suite for Orchestra, Op.36	1896
4106	Chadwick	O Holy Child of Bethlehem	1896
4126 to 4128	Foote	3 Piano Pieces for the Left Hand, Op.37	1897
4329	Beach	Children's Album, Op.36	1897
4478	Beach	3 Shakespeare Choruses, Op.39	1897
4534 to 4537	Foote	4 Gesäng, Op.39	1898
4556	Foote	Song from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Op.40	1898
4646	Foote	Piano Quintet, Op.38	1898
4570, 4571	Foote	5 Bagatelles, Op.34 (Nos. 1 and 2)	1898
4618	Wilm	Suite No.1, Op.155 (No.2)	1898
4756	Beach	Violin Sonata, Op.34	1899
4803, 4804	Foote	2 Pieces for Piano, Op.42	1899
4820	Foote	5 Poems after Omar Khayyam, Op.41	1899
4838	Foote	6 Songs, Op.43 (No.1 for high voice)	1899
4840	Foote	6 Songs, Op.43 (No.2 for low voice)	1899
4841	Foote	6 Songs, Op.43 (No.3)	1899
4843	Foote	6 Songs, Op.43 (No.4 for high voice)	1899
4846	Foote	6 Songs, Op.43 (No.5 for low voice)	1899
4871	Godowsky	4 Pieces, Op.16 (No.4)	1899
4872	Godowsky	Toccata, Op.13	1899
4873	Chopin	Grande valse brillante, Op.18 - Leopold Godowsky arrangement	1899
4880	Chopin	Rondo in E-flat major, Op.16 - Leopold Godowsky arrangement	1899
4887	Godowsky	4 Pieces, Op.16 (No.2)	1899
4928	Metcalf	Absent (version in F)	1899
5092	MacDowell	Piano Sonata No.3, Op.57	1900
5108	MacDowell	3 Songs, Op.58	1899
5119	Beach	Piano Concerto, Op.45	1900
5139	Beach	3 Browning Songs, Op.44 (No.2)	1900
5180	Hill	To Anthea	1900
5215	Schnecker	The Fatherhood of God	1900
5310	Foote	Melody, Op.44	1900
5335	MacDowell	Piano Sonata No.4, Op.59	1901
5419	Foote	Serenade, Op.45 - 1914 revised version	1914
5462	Beach	Summer Dreams, Op.47	1901
5467	Beach	Sylvania, Op.46	1901
5520	MacDowell	Marionettes, Op.38 - revised and augmented edition	1901
5544	Foote	String Quartet, Op.32 (3rd mvt.)	1901
5575-5578	Niewiadomski	4 Morceaux, Op.30	1901
5625a-d	Foote	4 Songs, Op.51	1902
5639	MacDowell	6 Idyls after Goethe, Op.28 - revised and augmented edition	1901
5644	Seeboeck	6 Pièces Charactéristiques, Op.118	1902
5650	MacDowell	6 Poems after Heine, Op.31 - revised and augmented edition	1901
5677	MacDowell	3 Songs, Op.60	1902
5681	Hadley	Symphony No.2, Op.30 'The Four Seasons'	1902
5727-5732	Niewiadomski	6_Morceaux Mélodiques, Op.34	1902
5772	MacDowell	Fireside Tales, Op.61	1902
5862	MacDowell	New England Idyls, Op.62	1902
5935	Chadwick	6 Songs, Op.14 (No.1 in D♭ major)	©1885, 1913
5953, 5954	Martucci	2 Caprices, Op.80	1899
6091	Sartorio	Pictures from Youth, Op.400	1900
6151, 6152	Beach	2 Piano Pieces, Op.54	1903
6220	Foote	20 Preludes, Op.52	1903
6259	Foote	Flower Songs, Op.49 (No.3 for soprano)	1902
6263	Dennée	Progressive Technique, Part I	1903
6435, 6436	Foote	3 Songs, Op.55 (Nos.2 & 3)	1904
6724	Foote	Pieces at Twilight	1905
6929	Gurlitt	Kleine Blumenstücke, Op.178	1905
6988	Dennée	3 Morceaux Caracteristiques, Op.32	1905
7043 to 7046	Adams	4 Duets for Two Beginners, Op.13	1906
7196	Beach	Variations on Balkan Themes, Op.60	1906
7267	Foote	An Irish Folk Song	1906
7417 to 7418	Foote	2 Compositions for Piano, Op.60	1907
7419	Foote	Meditation, Op.61	1907
7425 to 7428	Beach	Eskimos, Op.64	1907
7471	Foote	3 Songs, Op.55 (No.1 for high voice)	1904
7588	Adams	3 Piano Duets in Unfamiliar Keys, Op.20	1907
7637 to 7641	Beach	Les Rêves de Columbine, Op.65	1907
7902 to 7906	Niemann	Meissner Porzellan, Op.6	1908
7941	MacDowell	Lamia, Op.29 (arr. for piano 4 hands)	1908
7943	MacDowell	Lamia, Op.29 (full score)	1908
7944	Foote	Cello Concerto, Op.33 (2nd. mvt. arr. for cello and piano)	1908
7993, 7994	Stojowski	2 Mazurkas, Op.28	1908
7995 to 7997	Stojowski	3 Esquisses, Op.30	1908
8013	Dennée	L'Irresistible, Op.33	1908
8048	Weiss	Waldeszauber	1909
8092	Foote	4 Songs, Op.67 (No.1 for alto/bass)	1908
8094	Foote	4 Songs, Op.67 (No.2 for soprano/tenor)	1908
8095	Foote	4 Songs, Op.67 (No.3 for soprano/tenor)	1908
8097	Foote	4 Songs, Op.67 (No.4 for mezzo-soprano/baritone)	1908
8189 to 8191	Niemann	3 Piano Pieces, Op.7	1909
8256 to 8260	MacDowell	10 Woodland Sketches, Op.51 (selections arr. for cello and piano by Julius Klengel)	1896
8308	Staub	Scintillements, Op.15	1909
8480	Foote	Suite for String Orchestra, Op.63	1909
8487	Elgar	Sursum Corda, Op.11 (arr. for violin and piano by F. Louis Schneider)	1909
8538	Foote	Piano Trio No.2, Op.65	1909
8823	Chadwick	4 Choruses (No.1 Inconstancy)	1910
8824	Chadwick	Elfin Song	1910
8932, 8934 to 8936	Chadwick	Four Irish Songs, F.222	1910
9243 to 9249	Torjussen	Norwegian Suite, Op.3	1915
9276	Chadwick	Suite Symphonique	1911
9289	Foote	String Quartet No.3 in D major, Op.70 (score&parts)	1911
9338	Foote	Sigh No More, Ladies	1913
9348	Foote	7 Compositions for Organ, Op.71 (No.5)	1912
9351 to 9360	Foote	5 Songs, Op.72	1912
9368	Foote	Tomorrow	1911
9421 to 9426	Ornstein	6 Lyric Fancies	1911
9494	Chadwick	Three Little Songs, Op.11 (No.3-in D♭ major)	1911
9680	Foote	4 Character Pieces after the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Op.48	1912
9715	Stanford	Symphony No.7, Op.124	1912
9731 to 9735	Moszkowski	Tanz-Momente, Op.89	1912
9804	Foote	The Little Creek Goes Winding	1912
9822	Dennée	Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.39 No.2	1913
9858 to 9862	Foote	5 Silhouettes, Op.73	1913
10008, 10009	Foote	2 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.74	1913
10016	Hollins	Cantilène	1912
10088	Huhn	Israfel (version for med. voice)	1913
10098	Foote	Hear My Prayer, O God	1914
10194	Weiser	Fruhlings-Gavotte	1912
10275	Horváth	2 Compositions	1914
10454	Foote	Recessional	1914
10568	Liebling	Momento appassionato, Op.24	1915
10569, 10570	MacDowell	Air and Rigaudon, Op.49	1915
10577, 10579	Lang	2 Songs, Op.54	1915
10830-5	Hall, William John	Substance	1916
10893	MacDowell	6 Fancies, Op.7 (No.2 arr. for violin and piano by Hartmann)	1916
11229	Moszkowski	6 Piano Pieces, Op.93	1916
11382	Hall	Smile An' Dry Yo' Eyes (low voice)	1919
11594	Floy Little Bartlett	I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes	1919
11610	Walter E. Young	The Wilderness	1919
11823	Skilton	Music to the Electra of Sophocles (v.s.)	1920
12095	Foote	Shadows	1921
12437, 12438	Beach	Hermit Thrush, Op.92	1922
12602-6	Ralph Cox	Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace	1922
12608	Foote	From Rest Harrow	1922
12714	Beach	From Blackbird Hills, Op.83	1922
12802-4	Ralph Cox	The Lord Is My Light	1923
13909	Agnew	Winter Solitude	1927
14523	Schmitt	Crépuscules, Op.56	1913
14606	Beach	Out of the Depths, Op.130	1932
14962	Foote	A Night Piece [Flute & Strings]	1934

S. Plate Numbers

Plate	Composer	Work	Year
S.51 to S.60	Schytte	Caprices et Fantasies, Op.63	1890
S.92	Schytte	Barcarolle for Piano and Strings, Op.60	(1891)
S.94	Schytte	Barcarolle for Piano and Strings, Op.60 (parts)	(1891)
S.95	Huber	Piano Concerto No.2, Op.107 (2 Piano reduction)	1891
S.110	Raff	Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, WoO.51	1891
S.113	Raff	Orchestral Prelude to Shakespeare's Macbeth, WoO.50	1891
S.123	MacDowell	Suite No.1, Op.42	1891
S.199	Bird	Dritte kleine Suite, Op.32	1892
S.251	Behr	Napolitana, Op.105	1893
S.281	Brüll	Piano Suite No.2, Op.71	1894
S.321	Brüll	Piano Sonata, Op.73	1894
S.339	Dancla	Recueillement	1895
S.436	Beach	Symphony in E minor, Op.32 'Gaelic'	1898
S.562a-d	MacDowell	Forgotten Fairy Tales, Op.4	1899

Sources Consulted

1. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie.

New York and London: Macmillan Publications, 1980.

Authority control

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