Dreyfus, Max
(1874–1964)> MAJOR MUSIC PUBLISHER · EMPLOYER
Max Dreyfus Major music publisher and early employer of George Gershwin 1874; 1964, full dates unknown). One of the first employees of Howley, Haviland and Company, who not only arranged the songs of the firm’s top composers, including Paul Dresser, but also had great skill as an “inside” plugger, teaching performers the firm’s songs on the premises. When he went to M. Witmark and Sons in 1895 to interest them in his own compositions, they did not want his songs but did want him. Witmark ’s (a…