LAURENDEAU, L.-P.

When Carl Fischer came to the United States from Germany in 1872, he opened a music instrument store in New York City and eight years later added a band publishing department. Around 1894 the first of a steady stream of manuscripts began arriving from a Canadian composer named Louis-Philippe Laurendeau . As the works arrived, they were published and sold to the town bands which by that time numbered in the thousands. Before the turn of the century Laurendeau moved to New...