G. Schirmer.
America's yellow-bound library since 1861. Founded by Gustav Schirmer in Civil War-era New York, G. Schirmer is the publishing home of American classical music — Bernstein, Barber, Carter, Bolcom, Heggie, Crumb, Corigliano. The Schirmer Library of Musical Classics has been the working shelf of every American conservatory since 1892.
Schirmer's yellow-bound Library of Musical Classics — inaugurated in 1892 under the editorial direction of Hermann Grafton — has been on every American conservatory student's shelf for more than 130 years. Bernstein, Barber, Bolcom, Carter, Heggie, Corigliano and Crumb signed long-term contracts. The 20th-century American canon, in print, on cream paper, with the unmistakable yellow cover.
Below: the Schirmer departmental catalogue — composer-first for the major American voices, format for the Library and the choral and operatic anthologies. Plus the Schirmer Performance Editions and the educational standards that defined American piano pedagogy.