Von Tilzer, Albert
(1878–1956)> COMPOSER
Albert Von Tilzer Composer Albert Gumm, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 29, 1878; Los Angeles, California, October 1, 1956. After brother Harry von Tilzer was made a partner in Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer , Albert was hired to work in the firm’s Chicago office. By 1904, he had come to New York, and in that year he founded his own publishing house with another brother, Jack. Called the York Music Company, it was located at 40 West Twenty-eighth Street. For it, he and Cecil Mack wrote York’s…