S. Brainard Sons

S. Brainard Sons (also known as S. Brainard's Sons and S. Brainard & Sons) was a music publisher, music periodical publisher, and musical instrument retailer based in Cleveland, Ohio and then Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in 1836 by Silas Brainard with Henry J. Mould.[1] The business published music and songbooks including political and patriotic music.[2] Brainard also published the periodical Western Musical World which was eventually renamed Brainard's Musical World.[3][4] The Library of Congress has a collection of their sheet music.[5] The New York Public Library has copies of their periodical in its collection.[4]

S. Brainard Sons
Silas Brainard
Silas Brainard, founder

History

Brainard sold Chickering & Sons pianos.[2] It acquired Chicago publisher Root & Cady's plates in 1871[6] after the Great Chicago Fire and eventually relocated to Chicago. After Brainard's death in 1871, the business passed to his two eldest sons, Charles Silas Brainard (1841-1897) and Henry Mould Brainard (1844-1918). His third, and youngest son, Arthur W Brainard (1861-1942), aged 10, was considered too young to partake in the family business.[7] Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, Charles and Henry continued their father's work; publishing vocal and instrumental music, songbooks, and political and patriotic songs. During this time, Henry Mould Brainard opened his own shop in Cleveland as an outfit for Steinway pianos.[8]

In the mid-to-late 1880's the Brainard family began to expand their businesses outside of Cleveland. In 1886, Arthur W Brainard, now a developer and businessman, moved to California, where he contributed in founding and building the city of Sierra Madre.[9] In 1889 Charles Silas Brainard and Henry Mould Brainard moved the company out of Cleveland, OH and into Chicago,IL, where it would remain until the 1930s.

From 1899 until his death, Thomas Sidwell (1860–1909) was President of S. Brainard Sons. Upon his death, management was carried on by his widow, Katie (née Kate H. Sim; 1851–1936), who, on January 24, 1910, remarried – in Highland, New York – to Edward Albert Stege ( Albert Eduard Gustav Stege; 1861–1933) of Eldred, New York.[10][11][12] Katie Stege (under the name K. Sidwell), Edward A. Stege, and C.C. Beekman, in early 1910, formed a corporation, "The Edward A. Stege Co.," printers, engravers, bookbinders, etc.[13]

Music periodical

The music journal was published from 1864 until 1895 when it was merged with Etude.[3] The content of each issue included a musician's biography. The publication competed with Root and Cady's Song Messenger of the Northwest.[3]

Karl Merz became an editor of Brainard's Musical World.

Selected publications

  • School Chimes, A New School Music Book (1874) written by the hymn composer James Ramsey Murray
  • "Weston's March to Chicago" (1867), composed by Edward Mack; publisher: (List of songs about Chicago)
  • "Keep the Horse Shoe Over the Door"[14]
  • Fanny Crosby's Six Songs by Wurzel (1855):[15] "O How Glad to Get Home",[16] "Honeysuckle Glen",[17][18][19] "The Church in the Wood," "All Together Now",[20] and "Proud World, Good-by".[21] The most popular of these songs was "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower",[22][23] about the death of a young girl.[24] It was popularized in the 1850s by the Christy Minstrels;[25] it sold more than 125,000 copies of sheet music and earned nearly $3,000 in royalties for Root[26] —and almost nothing for Crosby.[27]
  • Francis Boott's "The Convict's Lullaby" (Henry Kirke White); revised 1874
  • William Krell's "Mississippi Rag" January 27, 1897 and "Shake Yo' Dusters of Piccaninny Rag"
  • Eben Eugene Rexford's "Rosa Lee" (1890), music by H. C. Verner
  • Lucia di Lamermoor (1868), arranged by Justin Holland


References

  1. "Brainard - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org.
  2. Van Tassel, David Dirck, PhD (1928–2000); Grabowski, John Joseph, eds. (1987). "S. Brainard's Sons". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Indiana University Press in association with Case Western University. Retrieved July 22, 2021{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 87-45114, LCCN 95-26681; ISBN 0-2533-1303-1; OCLC 1101905332 (all editions).
    1. Book ed.. p. 851 via Internet Archive.
    2. Online ed. via Case Western Reserve.
  3. J. Heywood Alexander (1980). "Brainard's (Western) Musical World". Notes. 36 (3): 601–614. doi:10.2307/939805. JSTOR 939805.
  4. "Brainard's musical world - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org.
  5. Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 (searching "S. Brainard's Sons Co."). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  6. "Root & Cady - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org.
  7. Year: 1870; Census Place: Cleveland Ward 6, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Roll: M593_1190; Page: 8A
  8. "S. Brainard's Sons". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. May 11, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  9. Sierra Madre News (March 14, 1930). "Pioneer Comes Back to See His Handiwork". Vol. 24, no. 24. Sierra Madre, California. p. 7 (column 2). Retrieved July 22, 2021 via Internet Archive.
  10. Witherspoon, Halliday (pseudonym of William Herbert Nutter; 1874–1941) (1902). "Thomas Sidwell, Chicago". Men of Illinois. Chicago: A. J. Cox & Co Retrieved August 20, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN 15-3834; OCLC 6884076 (all editions).
    1. Google Books via New York Public Library.
  11. Engelhardt, George Washington (1900). Chicago: The Book of Its Board of Trade and Other Public Bodies. p. 243. Retrieved August 23, 2021 via Google Books. OCLC 844594306 (all editions).
  12. Fisher, William Arms (1861–1948) (1933). One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States; An Historical Sketch With Special Reference to the Pioneer Publisher, Oliver Ditson Company, Inc., 1783–1933. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, Inc. pp. 132–133. Retrieved August 18, 2021 via Internet Archive. LCCN 34-2890, LCCN 33-12389, LCCN 34-2890; OCLC 5923165 (all editions).
  13. "New Incorporations" → "The Edward A. Stege Co". The American Stationer. New York: Lockwood Trade Journal Company. 67 (6): 28. February 5, 1910. Retrieved August 23, 2021 via Google Books.
  14. Cockrell, Dale (January 3, 2019). The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook. A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN 9780895796875 via Google Books.
  15. Carder (2008), pp. 62–65; 196; n.75, 215.
  16. "Glad to Get Home" (1855), Words and Music attributed to Wurzel (G. F. R.) [pseud. for George Frederick Root, 1820–1895] from Six Songs by Wurzel, Cleveland, OH: S. Brainard’s Sons [Source: 1883-24139@LoC]
  17. "Six Songs by Wurzel. No. 2. The Honeysuckle Glen". Jscholarship.library.jhu.edu. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
  18. "The Honeysuckle Glen" (No. 2 from Six Songs by Wurzel), The Music of George Frederick Root (1820–1895)
  19. For lyrics, see Crosby & Lowry (1899), pp. 134–35.
  20. "Six Songs by Wurzel. No. 5. All Together Again". Jscholarship.library.jhu.edu. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
  21. "Proud World Good Bye! I'm Going Home", Six Songs by Wurzel, Cleveland, OH: S. Brainard's Sons.
  22. "Seven Popular Songs by Wurzel", jscholarship.library.jhu.edu; accessed December 11, 2014.
  23. For lyrics, see "Rosalie the Prairie Flower" by George Frederick Root (1855), or Crosby & Lowry (1899), pp. 132–33.
  24. Carder (2008), n.75, p. 215.
  25. "Rosalie, The Prairie Flower", Best Loved Songs of The American People, Denes Agay (ed.), Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975.
  26. Carder (2008), n.82, p. 215.
  27. Koskoff, Ellen, PhD (1989) [1987]. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective (preview only). University of Illinois Press. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. p. 184. Retrieved March 6, 2019 via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) LCCN 86-33648 (1987 1st ed.), LCCN 88-23578 (1989 re-print); ISBN 0252-0-6057-1; OCLC 833063120, 494141749.

Further reading

    1. Google Books (preview only).
    2. Internet Archive.
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