Herbert, Victor. (1859–1924)
Original Photograph
Original doubleweight Wight Studios of NY photograph of the American cellist, conductor, composer, and founder of ASCAP, shown in 1924, the year of his death. Autograph notes on the verso, showing that this photograph was the property of ASCAP. Some small pencil marks; overall fine. 7.5 x 9.5 inches (19.2 x 24.1 cm). An impressive portrait by Broadway's foremost photographer of stage production from 1905-25.ASCAP was founded by Victor Herbert, together with composers Louis Hirsch, John Raymond Hubbell, Silvio Hein and Gustave Kerker, lyricist Glen MacDonough, publishers George Maxwell (who served as its first president) and Jay Witmark, and a copyright attorney Nathan Burkan at the Hotel Claridge in New York City on February 13, 1914, to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members, who were mostly writers and publishers associated with New York City's Tin Pan Alley.[6] ASCAP's earliest members included the era's most active songwriters—Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, John Philip Sousa, Alfred Baldwin Sloane, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Hood Bowers and Harry Tierney. Subsequently, many other prominent songwriters became members. (15487)
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