Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Chappell & Company
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Description area
Dates of existence
1810-1987
History
Chappell & Company was a music publishing house, founded in 1810 by Samuel Chappell, Francis Tatton Latour, and John Baptist Cramer, in London England. After Chappell's death in 1834, his son, William Chappell took over the company, followed by his brother Thomas Patey Chappell. The publishing house expanded the business to included piano manufacturing in the 1840s. The piano manufacturing portion of the business was purchased by Kemble Pianos and the publishing business by Warner Bros. in 1987.