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Peters, William Cummings

music publisher, composer, musician, composer


born: 10 Mar 1805 Woodbury, Devon / county, England Source: 1  

born: - Modbury, Devon / county, England Source: 2  

died: 20 Apr 1866 Cincinnati, Ohio / state, USA Source: 1  

The Music Sack has 19 items with information about William Cummings Peters:


 1994

Wetzel, Richard D.
Before the Civil War
The firm of W.C. Peters & Sons.

p. 28 In:
Heintze, James R.
American musical life in context and practice to 1865
Edited by Jame R. Heintze
New York: Garland, 1994, 366 p.

Number of People : 1


 1993

Waterhouse, William
The new Langwill index
A dictionary of musical wind-instrument makers and inventors
1st. edition
London: Tony Bingham, 1993, xxxvii, 518 p. : ill.

Number of People : 6,435


 1992

Smith, Kyle
Catalog of the music of Pennsylvania composers
Vol. I: Orchestral Music
Wynnewood, Penn: Pennsylvania Composers Forum, 1992, 60 p.

Number of People : 185


 1990

Sadie, Stanley
Krummel, Donald W.
The new Grove handbooks in music, music printing and publishing
Edited by D.W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie
London: Macmillan Press, 1990, 615 p.

Number of People : 954


 1988

Clark, J. Bunker
Krohn, Ernst C.
Music publishing in St. Louis
Completed and edited by J. Bunker Clark
Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1988, 126 p.

Number of People : 24


 1986

Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.

Number of People : 3,993


 1983

Wetzel, Richard D.
The Search for William Cumming Peters
American Music, 01-4, 1983, p. 27-41

Number of People : 1


 1980 Source: 1

Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
London: Macmillan, 1980

Number of People : 20,506


 1976 Source: 2

Wetzel, Richard D.
Frontier musicians on the Connoquenessing, Wabash, and Ohio.
A history of the music and musicians of George Rapp's harmony society (1805-1906)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1976, 289 p.

Number of People : 6

More Details : (4 Sections)


 1974

Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.

Number of People : 3,156


 1962

Wunderlich, Charles Edward
A history and bibliography of early American musical periodicals, 1782-1852
By Charles Edward Wunderlich
1962, 783 p.
       Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Michigan

Number of People : 1,087


 1941

Bio-bibliographical index of musicians in the United States of America since colonial times
Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration
Washington, DC: 1941, 439 p.

Number of People : 10,576


 1938

Schmidl, Carlo
Dizionario universale dei musicisti : Supplemento
Milan: Sonzogno, 1938, 806 p.

Number of People : 9,140


 1937

Schmidl, Carlo
Dizionario universale dei musicisti
Milan: Sonzogno, 1937, 2V p.

Number of People : 11,317


 1933

Fisher, William Arms
One hundred and fifty years of music publishing in the United States.
An historical sketch with special reference to the pioneer publisher
Oliver Ditson Company, Inc. : 1783-1933
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, Inc., 1933

Number of People : 141


 1909

Herringshaw, Thomas W.
Herringshaw's national library of American biography, etc ...
Chicago: 1909-14, 5 vols.

Number of People : 683


 1892

Boase, Frederic
Modern English biography ...
Truro: 1892-1921, 6 vols.

Number of People : 934


 1888

Fiske, John
Wilson, James Grant
Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography ...
Edited by James Grant Wilson and John a Fiske.
New York: 1888, 87, 6 vols.

Number of People : 207


 1886

Brown, James Duff
Biographical dictionary of musicians.
With a bibliography of English writings on music
Paisley, Scotland: A. Gardner, 1886, 637 p.

Number of People : 4,300


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