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''The Music Trades'' is a -year-old American trade magazine that covers a broad spectrum of music and music commerce, domestically and abroad. The magazine was founded in New York City in 1890 and, since the mid-1970s, has been based in Englewood, New Jersey. ''The Music Trades'' is one of the longest-running, without interruption, trade publications in the world.〔 The issue — Vol. , No. — is approximately the }} issue.〔 A controlling ownership over the last years — *100 round 0}}}} percent of the publication's total age — has been held by three generations of the Majeski family, making it among the few current publications of any ilk that has been closely held by a single family for as long a period.〔 == History == ''The Music Trades'' was founded in 1890 by John Christian Freund (1848–1924) and Milton Weil (1871–1935). Freund and Weil also, in 1898, founded ''Musical America,'' the oldest American magazine on classical music.〔〔 ;;John Christian Freund : Freund, who matriculated in 1868 at Exeter College, Oxford but left after three years without a degree, had first been a playwright and actor.〔 Freund emigrated to New York in 1871.〔 In 1875, he founded ''The Music Trade Review,''〔 a fortnightly publication that he later renamed ''The Musical and Dramatic Times and Music Trade Review.'' The publication ran for about 2 years. In 1878, Freund founded the ''Musical Times'', which soon changed to ''Musical and Dramatic Times.'' On January 7, 1882, Freund launched a weekly magazine, ''Music: A Review'' (Vol., No. 1),〔 which contained an insert called ''The Music Trade''. Sometime on or before July 8, 1882, Freund changed the name to ''Music and Drama'', supplemented by ''Freund's Daily Music and Drama.'' ''Music and Drama'' evolved into the weekly publication, ''The Music Trades.''〔 : In 1884, Freund, with John Travis Quigg (1839–1893), founded ''The American Musician'', which ran until 1891 and became the official publication of the National League of Musicians, the forerunner of the American Federation of Musicians.〔〔 Before founding the ''American Musician'', (Henry Cood Watson ) (1818–1875) began in 1864 the publication ''Watson's Art Journal,'' devoted to music criticism and trade. Watson died in 1875 and his ''Journal'' was taken over by his pupil, William M. Thoms, who improved it, renamed it ''American Art Journal'', edited it until his retirement in 1906, then, upon his retirement, merged it with the ''American Musician.''〔〔 : Around 1895, Freund's younger brother, Harry Edward Freund (1863–1950), was editor of ''Musical Weekly,''〔〔 which continued as a weekly with a new name, beginning January 1896, as ''The Musical Age.'' The publication was aimed at piano dealers. ;;1927 sale by Milton Weil : Milton Weil (1871–1935) was married to the actress Henrietta Lander ''(née'' Rich; 1874–1935).〔 On June 13, 1927, three years after Freund died, Weil sold ''The Music Trades'' and ''Musical America'' to a newly formed syndicate that acquired four other publications and consolidated them into Trade Publications, Inc., headed by Walter Crawford Howey (1882–1954) as president, Verne Hardin Porter (1888–1942) as vice president and secretary, and Edwin John Rosencrans (1870–1935), as treasurer. The other publications were ''The American Architect,'' ''The Barbers' Journal,'' ''Beauty Culture,'' and ''Perfumers' Journal.''〔 : Schluter & Company and Shields & Company were the investment bankers who handled the deal, which involved an issuance of $1,100,000 in preferred and common stock.〔 Howey, Porter, and Rosencrans were also directors of Trade Publications, Inc. The other directors were G. Murray Hulbert, John Zollikoffer Lowe, Jr. (1884–1951), and Joseph Urban. Shields & Company and Nixon & Company, of Philadelphia, also made s public offering of ten-year percent gold bonds of Trade Publications, Inc., that carried warrants to purchase common stock at a price that closely corresponded with the value of the stock.〔 : Howey and Porter had been former executives of the Hearst Corporation.〔 Rosencrans was the managing editor of ''The American Architect.'' Years before the deal, Rosencrans, a civil engineer, had been partners with architect John F. Jackson (1867–1948). Their firm, Jackson & Rosencrans, designed over seventy YMCAs.〔〔 Lowe was a lawyer and onetime law partner in a firm with Samuel Seabury. ;;1929 bankruptcy : Walter Howey — who, before heading Trade Publications, had been the founding managing editor of the ''New York Daily Mirror'' — left Trade Publications to again become the managing editor of the ''Mirror'' on August 1, 1928.〔 Trade Publications, Inc., filed for bankruptcy in 1929. The Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver for Trade Publications, Inc., which had liabilities of $716,839 and assets of $59,511. John Logan Lyttle (1879–1930), bankruptcy referee, sold at auction to John Majeski, Weil's former assistant, on July 19, 1929, four of the six magazines for $45,200: (i) ''Musical America'', (ii) ''The Music Trades'', (iii) ''The Barbers' Journal'', and (iv) ''Beauty Culture.''〔 Of the $45,000 Majeski paid for the six publications, $11,000 of it was attributable to ''Musical America'' and ''The Music Trades,'' for which, three years earlier, around 1926–1927, he had offered a quarter of a million dollars, in a losing bid against Trade Publications, Inc. Majeski's acquisition included the publications' names, a collection of back issues, and a few months of office space in the Steinway Building.〔 : A few months before the bankruptcy auction on July 19, 1929, Weil was said to have sold all his interest in Trade Publications, Inc., for $200,000 in preferred stock. After he sold, he and his wife moved to Paris, where they were residing during the bankruptcy auction. The bankruptcy sale wiped-out Weil's stake built-up over a lifetime. Weil, at the time of the bankruptcy sale, was said to have only taken $5,000 with him to Paris. Weil's father, Jacob A. Weil (1835–1913), was a Paris-born American and his mother, Dina ''(née'' Lilienthal; born 1843), was a German-born American. ;;Double suicide of Milton and Henrietta Weil : Distraught over the loss of their fortune during the pre-Crash of 1929, then the Crash, and their subsequent inability to recover during the Great Depression – Milton and Henrietta Weil carried out a double suicide pact on May 22, 1935, leaving a note and taking veronal in their room of the Hotel Scribe in the Opera District of Paris.〔 Henrietta died the next morning, May 23, 7:40 at the American Hospital;〔 Milton died 23 hours and 25 minutes later, May 24, 7:05 , at the same hospital.〔 They are buried next to each other at the New Cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine.〔 ;;Legacy of Freund and Weil : Freund and Weil were exponents of American classical music, despite the fact that Freund had only become a naturalized United States citizen on November 2, 1903. Their publications ''Musical America'' and ''The Music Trades'' complemented each other, and, in a unique sense, gave them a comprehensive and credible view of the growth of classical music in America and its international rank, as an art-form and in commerce. To the extent that both publications reached an international readership, Freund and Weil held sway as impresarios and movement leaders of American classical music. Their publications flourished during the early 1900s — on a new wave of American composers, including those of the Second New England School — joined by foreign composers that emigrated to America after 1880 in a flood of nearly 25 million Europeans. In commerce, 1875 to 1932 represented a golden age of piano making — nearly 364,545 were sold at the peak in 1909, according to the National Piano Manufacturers Association.〔 New York City, followed by Chicago, was the manufacturing leader of pianos during that age. : Freund and Weil's publications gave them broad access in the field of music. Notably, they served as bridges between the art and the money, connecting artists, organizations, commerce, and public policy. The spectrum that both publications collectively chronicled gave Freund and Weil a strong platform to serve as advocates, opinion leaders, conciliators, counselors, arbiters, and ambassadors for music and the music trades in America. As an example, Freund and Weil were influential in the founding of the National Music Managers Association (for national managers) and the National Concert Managers' Association (for local managers), aimed at improving cooperation between the two for the benefit of musicians.〔〔 Also, Freund and Weil were, in 1918, the founding president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the Musical Alliance of the United States,〔〔 an organization that endures today. At its founding, Freund had called for an alliance to organize "all workers in the field, from the man at the bench in a piano factory to the conductor of the great symphony."〔 ;;The Majeski years — 1910–present ( years) : On July 19, 1929, John Francis Majeski, Sr. (1892–1971) — who in 1910 had joined the staff of ''Musical America,'' which at the time owned ''The Musical Trades'' — became the new owner of (i) ''The Music Trades'', (ii) ''Musical America'', (ii) ''Barbers Journal'', and (iv) ''Beauty Culture.''〔 On August 22, 1929, Majeski formed three holding companies: The Music Trades Corporation, The Musical America Corporation, and Beauty Culture Publishing Corporation — the third as holding company for ''Barbers Journal'' and ''Beauty Culture.'' : In 1959, Majeski sold ''Musical America'' — which later merged with ''High Fidelity'' in 1964 — but retained his interest in ''The Musical Trades,'' and served as its publisher until his death. At the time of his death, his son, John Francis Majeski, Jr. (1921–2011), was the magazine's editor.〔〔〔 John Majeski, Jr., was the magazine's editor until 1982 and its publisher until 1985.〔 In 2005, John Majeski, Jr., received the American Music Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his achievements, contribution to music, and long tenure as editor of ''The Music Trades.''〔〔 ;;Current ownership : ''The Music Trades'' has been controlled by the Majeski family for years (since July 19, 1929). Its holding company is The Music Trades Corporation, a New Jersey entity based in Englewood, which is controlled by the third-generation Majeski family — Paul Anton Majeski (born 1960), publisher since 1985, and Brian T. Majeski (born 1956), editor since 1982. Brian holds a bachelors degree in philosophy from Lawrence University (1978). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Music Trades (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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