Biographical Note
Gustave Schirmer was born in 1864 in New York, New York. He was the second son of famed German-born music publisher Gustav Schirmer (1829-1893). In 1885, Gustave Schirmer organized the Boston Music Co. which gained notoriety after publishing the works of Ethelbert Nevin. Schirmer served as a partner in the firm founded by his father, G. Schirmer Inc., and after his father’s death in 1893, managed the business jointly with his elder brother, Rudolph Edward Schirmer (1859-1919). Gustave Schirmer died suddenly of appendicitis in 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Grace Schirmer was born in 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Samuel (d. 1899) and Helen G. Reed Tilton (d. 1901) and was the wife of Gustave Schirmer. The two married in 1885 in Boston and had two children, Gustave Schirmer (1890-1965) and Gertrude H. Schirmer Fay (1888-1992). Grace Schirmer was the author of many critical essays published in various music publications. She died in 1943 in New York, New York.