WOlof Åhlström was a Swedish civil servant, composer and music publisher.
WPaul DH Baylay is an artist manager & music publisher notable for his work reuniting UK boyband Blue. In 2010, Baylay led a prominent campaign to have Jewish two time Academy Award winner, Luise Rainer, honoured in her native country of Germany. Rainer was the world's first actor to win back to back Oscars in 1936 & 1937. Rainer had been forgotten when the Boulevard der Stars opened in 2010 in Potsdamerplatz, Berlin, despite being Germany's only Academy Award-winning actor. In 2011, Rainer was nominated for a star but was then rejected by the jury. Baylay campaigned across Germany, lobbying press and politicians to support the campaign to have the actress and her work recognised. The campaign was supported by the German Central Council of Jews. In August 2011, the Boulevard der Stars finally relented acknowledging the social media, email and letter campaign led by Baylay had been key in their decision to awarding an additional star in favour of Luise Rainer. In September 2011, Rainer then aged 101, flew to Berlin from her London home to formally receive her star on the Boulevard der Stars together with Paul Baylay and Klaus Wowerweit, the mayor of Berlin.
WHermann Dechant is an Austrian, conductor, flautist, musicologist, composer and music publisher.
WRussell Emanuel is a British entrepreneur, musician, and producer. He is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Extreme Music, which creates and licenses music for use in television, film, advertising, and online media, and the president and CEO of Bleeding Fingers Custom Music Shop, a scoring, composition, and music production company co-founded with Hans Zimmer and Steve Kofsky.
WLeopold Feist, in 1897 founded and ran a music publishing firm bearing his name. In the 1920s, at the height of the golden age of popular music, his firm was among the seven largest publishers of popular music in the world. Leo Feist, Inc., ran until 1934.
WLouise Berta Mosson Hanson-Dyer was an Australian music publisher and patron of the arts.
WTim Hawes is an English born songwriter, record producer and music publisher who has achieved in excess of ten million record sales including five number one singles. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Ivor Novello award for songwriting. Hawes is known for his work with the Spice Girls, Five, Hear'Say, Sugababes, Mutya Buena, Monrose, Aaron Carter, No Angels, Cinema Bizarre, Aggro Santos, Jimmy Blue and Stefanie Heinzmann.
WAbraham Hirsch was a Swedish music publisher, politician, and businessman. He played an instrumental role in establishing the Swedish Art Music Society in 1859. From 1869-1876 he was the CFO of Aftonbladet and for many year he was a councilman for the city of Stockholm. As a music publisher he published works for several notable Swedish composers, including Isidor Dannström, Ivar Hallström, Jacob Axel Josephson, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, August Söderman, Emil Sjögren, and Gunnar Wennerberg among others.
WDonald Clark Kirshner was an American music publisher, music consultant, rock music producer, talent manager, and songwriter. Dubbed "the Man with the Golden Ear" by Time magazine, he was best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups, such as the Monkees, Kansas, and the Archies.
WHenry Lemoine was a French music publisher, composer, and piano teacher.
WHans Georg Nägeli was a composer and music publisher.
WPierre-Jean Porro was an influential French classical guitarist, composer and music publisher.
WEberhard Rebling was a German pianist, musicologist and dance scholar as well as an anti fascist.
WWolfgang Rehm was a German musicologist active mostly in music publishing, especially the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. He was on the board of its editorial team for decades, and personally edited operas and piano music. While he worked on it for Bärenreiter in Kassel, he was responsible for the program of the Kasseler Musiktage festival, and after he moved for further work to Salzburg, he shaped the program of the Mozartwoche. He was also a member of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres from 1959 to 1985, and also a founding member and treasurer of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales data base.
WErnst Roth was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968. He also wrote about music and translated.
WLudwig Philipp Carl Wilhelm Strecker was a German businessman who owned the London-based music publishing house, Schott and Co., Limited.
WAndrei Vladimirovich Tropillo is a Soviet and Russian record producer, music publisher, sound engineer, founder of the label AnTrop ("АнТроп"), and rock musician.
WHorace Waters was a 19th-century hymn publisher and frequent collaborator with Stephen Foster and Susan McFarland Parkhurst. In 1845, he established his "Piano and Music Establishment". He was a retailer of organs, pianos, sheet music and melodeons. In the 1850s he began to manufacture his own organs and melodeons. He added his own line of pianos to his manufacturing after the Civil War. His sons, T. Leed Waters and Horace Waters Jr became active in the company around 1864. The popularity of the melodeons and organs declined while the piano became a more common instrument in the home and so the company discontinued the manufacture of these. He also produced player pianos.
WThéodore Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin or Wekerlin was a French composer and music publisher from Alsace.
WJohn Wyeth (1770–1858) was a printer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who is best-known for printing Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, which marks an important transition in American music. Like the original Repository of 1810, Part Second used the four-shape system of Little and Smith in The Easy Instructor to appeal to a wider audience; but its pioneering inclusion American folk tunes influenced all subsequent folk hymn, camp meeting, and shape note collections. Musicologist Warren Steel sees Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second as marking "the end of the age of New England composer-compilers (1770-1810) and the beginning of the age of southern collector-compilers (1816-1860)."
WJean-Claude Zehnder is a Swiss organist in church and concert, harpsichordist, and musicologist. In research and playing, he is focused on Baroque music, and has played and recorded at historic organs in Europe. He led the department for organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from 1972 to 2006. His publications include books and music editions, such as organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach.