SCHALLEHN, H. [Henry]
It seems that, in the mid-1800s, it was highly fashionable for touring military bandmasters to compose light dance musicsuch as waltzes or quadrillesand dedicate them to the high-society ladies of the city they were visiting. Mead, Brothers & Co., located on Notre Dame Street, Montreal, was a key player in the emergence of Montreal's commercial music sector. Lovell & Gibson, Printers.
