PAULL, E. T.

Edward T. Paull was a prosperous and highly successful New York composer and publisher at the beginning of the present century. His Ben Hur Chariot Race March, which sold more than 60,000 copies during its first year of publication, was performed by the Sousa Band and countless other bands, from coast to coast; a German-American friend, Richard Müller , described him in 1913 as “the greatest living march composer.” Eleven years later, however, the New York Times observed his...