Metropolitan Music Co. (Minneapolis)

Metropolitan Music Co.
Formerly called
 W.J. Dyer & Bro.
Industry Music publisher
String instrument retailer
Founded Minneapolis, Minnesota (1879 (1879))
Founder William John Dyer (1841–1925)
Headquarters Minneapolis, U.S.
Area served
 Minnesota
Products Sheet music
Orchestral string instruments

Metropolitan Music Co. was a Minneapolis-based music publishing and string instrument retailer founded in the late 1879 as part of W. J. Dyer & Bro. of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was originally at 41–43 South Sixth Street.[1] On September 4, 1897, W. J. Dyer & Bro. merged into Metropolitan Music Co.[2] Heinrich Bauer was the proprietor in the late 1890s. B. A. Rose, who had started as an employee in the sheet music department, became the proprietor. The firm served the middle and northwest sections of the United States.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Metropolitan Music Co.," The Piano Trade Magazine and Music Industry, January 1915, pg. 171
  2. ↑ "The Minneapolis House of Dyer & Bro. Incorporated Under the Title of Metropolitan Music Co.," The Music Trades, September 11, 1897, pg. 13
  3. ↑ "Succeeded Without Being a "Catalog Dealer,'" The Music Trades, Vol. 64, No. 26, December 23, 1922, pg. 32
  4. ↑ Forty years of the University of Minnesota, Elwin Bird Johnson (1865–1928) (ed.), University of Minnesota Alumni Association (1910), pps. 407–408; OCLC 7992557
  5. ↑ "Two Music Stores to Open In St. Paul Shortly," May 22, 1920, pg. 19
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