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Browse piano sheets by Sadie Koninsky on Zen Virtual Piano. Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) lived most of her life in Troy, New York, and worked as a composer, music publisher and music teacher. She was the youngest of the five children of Harris and Mary Koninsky of Troy and received classical training in violin as a child. A girl trained in classical violin who went on to write cakewalks and marches suggests how wide the road from violin lessons to popular music could be. Her first published compositions were the waltz “The Belles of Andalusia” in 1894 and the march “The Minstrel King” in 1895. While she was training to become a classical violinist she wrote “Eli Green’s Cake Walk,” which Joseph W. Stern quickly picked up for publication, adding lyrics by the staff writer Dave Reed to benefit further from the demand for cakewalk songs. A cakewalk written while she was still training as a classical violinist, and quickly taken up by a publisher, suggests an early ear for popular taste. She also sought further piano instruction from Harriet Brower, a respected teacher and author of The Mastery of the Piano, but kept the violin as her instrument of choice, training under Kate Atherton Barker, head of the Violin Department of the Emma Willard Conservatory in Troy. Sadie and her brother Maurice went into the music business. By 1899 the family firm, then known as “Edw. M. Koninsky & Brothers,” was publishing music, including her sequel “Phoebe Thompson’s Cake Walk,” and she became the main arranger and composer at Koninsky Music, also working as its song plugger. Most of her marches were released under the name Jerome Hartman. A man’s name on most of her marches hints that the form carried expectations about who wrote it. Her work included waltzes, marches, cakewalks and foxtrots. During the 1920s she launched a publishing house of her own, Goodwyn Music Publishers, and also taught music and violin; she was still teaching in 1947. A career that ran from cakewalk sheet music to a publishing house of her own and years of teaching reads as a long working life built on several trades at once.
Browse piano sheets by Sadie Koninsky on Zen Virtual Piano.
Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) lived most of her life in Troy, New York, and worked as a composer, music publisher and music teacher. She was the youngest of the five children of Harris and Mary Koninsky of Troy and received classical training in violin as a child. A girl trained in classical violin who went on to write cakewalks and marches suggests how wide the road from violin lessons to popular music could be.
Her first published compositions were the waltz “The Belles of Andalusia” in 1894 and the march “The Minstrel King” in 1895. While she was training to become a classical violinist she wrote “Eli Green’s Cake Walk,” which Joseph W. Stern quickly picked up for publication, adding lyrics by the staff writer Dave Reed to benefit further from the demand for cakewalk songs. A cakewalk written while she was still training as a classical violinist, and quickly taken up by a publisher, suggests an early ear for popular taste. She also sought further piano instruction from Harriet Brower, a respected teacher and author of The Mastery of the Piano, but kept the violin as her instrument of choice, training under Kate Atherton Barker, head of the Violin Department of the Emma Willard Conservatory in Troy.
Sadie and her brother Maurice went into the music business. By 1899 the family firm, then known as “Edw. M. Koninsky & Brothers,” was publishing music, including her sequel “Phoebe Thompson’s Cake Walk,” and she became the main arranger and composer at Koninsky Music, also working as its song plugger.
Most of her marches were released under the name Jerome Hartman. A man’s name on most of her marches hints that the form carried expectations about who wrote it. Her work included waltzes, marches, cakewalks and foxtrots. During the 1920s she launched a publishing house of her own, Goodwyn Music Publishers, and also taught music and violin; she was still teaching in 1947. A career that ran from cakewalk sheet music to a publishing house of her own and years of teaching reads as a long working life built on several trades at once.
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Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) was an American composer, music publisher and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy, New York.
Most of her marches were released under the name Jerome Hartman.
A publishing house that Sadie Koninsky launched in the 1920s; she also taught music and violin and was still teaching in 1947.