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S. Brainard Sons
Silas Brainard
Silas Brainard, founder

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]

History[edit]

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 (né 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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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

Gallery[edit]


  • Guitar music published after the firm moved to Chicago
    Guitar music published after the firm moved to Chicago
  • List of works from the 1868 cover of Lucia di Lamermoor, arranged by Justin Holland and published in Chicago by S. Brainard Sons
    List of works from the 1868 cover of Lucia di Lamermoor, arranged by Justin Holland and published in Chicago by S. Brainard Sons
  • William Krell's "Piccaninny Rag", 1898
    William Krell's "Piccaninny Rag", 1898

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Brainard - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org.
  2. ^ a b Van Tassel, David Dirck; Grabowski, John Joseph, eds. (1987). "S. Brainard's Sons". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-31303-4. LCCN 87045114. OCLC 1101905332 – via Internet Archive. also online at Case Western Reserve
  3. ^ a b c J. Heywood Alexander (1980). "Brainard's (Western) Musical World". Notes. 36 (3): 601–614. doi:10.2307/939805. JSTOR 939805.
  4. ^ a b "Brainard's musical world - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org.
  5. ^ "Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922". Library of Congress (Search results). Washington, D.C. 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. ^ "Pioneer Comes Back to See His Handiwork". Sierra Madre News. Vol. 24, no. 24. Sierra Madre, California. March 14, 1930. p. 7. Retrieved July 22, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ Witherspoon, Halliday (1902). "Thomas Sidwell, Chicago". Men of Illinois. Chicago: A. J. Cox & Co. LCCN 15003834. OCLC 6884076.
  11. ^ Engelhardt, George Washington (1900). Chicago: The Book of Its Board of Trade and Other Public Bodies. p. 243. OCLC 844594306. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  12. ^ Fisher, William Arms (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. pp. 132–133. LCCN 34002890. OCLC 5923165. Retrieved August 18, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ^ "New Incorporations". The American Stationer. Vol. 67, no. 6. February 5, 1910. p. 28. Retrieved August 23, 2021 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Cockrell, Dale (January 3, 2019). The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook. A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89579-687-5 – 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 (1989) [1987]. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. University of Illinois Press. p. 184. ISBN 0252-0-6057-1. LCCN 88023578. OCLC 833063120. Retrieved March 6, 2019 – via Google Books.

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