Alfred Publishing Co..
Founded in 1922 in Tin Pan Alley NYC by Sam Manus, a violinist and importer of silent-film mood music. Now headquartered in Van Nuys, California — the world's largest educational music publisher and the publishing home of Sound Innovations, Accent on Achievement, Premier Piano, plus the Warner Bros. legacy catalogs (Feist, Harms, Witmark).
A violinist
in Tin Pan Alley.
Sam Manus founded what would become Alfred Music in New York City's Tin Pan Alley in 1922. He was a violinist and importer of mood music for silent films. He named the firm Manus Music; it later acquired Alfred & Company (founded by Alfred Haase) and combined both names into the Alfred imprint that has shaped American music education ever since.
Today Alfred is headquartered in Van Nuys, California, with branches in Miami, New York, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The catalogue covers piano, guitar, accordion, recorder, school band, school strings, and educational publications across virtually every instrument family taught in American studios and classrooms.
Sound Innovations. Accent on Achievement. Premier Piano.Alfred Music · the educational catalogue
Method books
and the Warner legacy.
Alfred's educational lines — Sound Innovations for strings, band and percussion; Accent on Achievement; the Premier Piano course; the Behind the Player instructional DVDs — are in school music programmes across the United States and increasingly worldwide.
In 2005 Alfred acquired Warner Bros. Publications from Warner Music Group, gaining rights to historic American songbook catalogs including Feist, Harms, Miller, Mills, Remick, and Witmark — the foundational popular music of the 20th century. In 2016 Alfred joined Peaksware Holdings, parent of MakeMusic (Finale notation software).