Leo Feist
Leo Feist (born January 3, 1869 in Mount Vernon / New York , † June 21, 1930 in Mount Vernon) was an American music publisher.
Feist initially worked as a sales manager for a corset factory. He tried unsuccessfully as a songwriter and founded a joint music publishing company ( Leo Feist Inc. ) with Joe Frankenthaler in 1895 . The first successful titles they released were Nobody Cares for Me and Oh, Oh Miss Liberty by Harry Von Tilzer . In 1913 Feist acquired a four-story office building in New York with offices for instrumenters, illustrators and songwriters.
In 1917 he bought George M. Cohan's song Over There for $ 25,000 , of which he sold two million copies. However, his attempt to acquire the rights to Tiger Rag from the original Dixieland Jazz Band remained unsuccessful . He had his greatest financial success in 1927 with My Blue Heaven by Walter Donaldson / George A. Whiting . The song was recorded by Gene Austin , Eddie Cantor got it into the Ziegfeld Follies of the Year, and Feist sold five million copies. Five years after his death, his publishing house was taken over by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
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- John Shepherd: Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production. Volume II, Volume 1, A&C Black, 2003, ISBN 9780826463210 , pp. 585-86
- Dan Diner: "Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture" Volume 6: Te-Z., Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 9783476012210 , p. 106
- Library of Congress - Leo Feist collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feist, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Vernon (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1930 |
| Place of death | Mount Vernon (New York) |