Abe Holzmann was a German

Germany

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/American

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 composer

Composer

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, who is most famous today for his march

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A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...

 Blaze-Away!

Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City

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. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian (some sources say German

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) immigrant

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 and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana

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. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany. A review originally published by the New York Herald

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 on Sunday, 13t January 1901 entitled German Composer who Writes American Cakewalk Music describes "[h]is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable."

Abe married Isabelle Fishblatt around 1908, and he became the manager of the Orchestra Department at Jerome Remick & Company, music publisher in New York.
He was an early member (1923) of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He earned his livelihood as composer/arranger for Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

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 publishers, including Leo Feist. He later was advertising manager for the American Federation of Musicians

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 publication, International Musician. He was a member of Freemasonry

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, the Elks

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, and Knights of Pythias

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, all in New York City.

Holzmann died in East Orange, New Jersey

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 at age 64. He was survived by his widow, a daughter Natalie Holzmann, three half-brothers, and four sisters. His music was especially revered by ragtime

Ragtime

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 enthusiasts, although he composed marches, waltz

Waltz

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es, and other light music.

Works

• A-la-carte (1915)
• Alagazam (1902)
• Blaze-Away! (1901) possibly a tribute to "Rough Rider" turned U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
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• Bunch O' Blackberries (1899)
• Calanthe (1900)
• Cowperthwait Centennial March (1907)
• Flying Arrow (1906)
• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Rules The World (1901)
• Hunky Dory (1900)
• Love-Land (1905)
• Old Faithful (1908)
• The Rialto (1916)
• Smokey Mokes (1899)
• Spirit of Independence (1912)
• Symphia (1902)
• Uncle Sammy (1904)
• The Whip (1908)
• The Winning Fight (1911)
• Yankee Grit (1905)