Albert Von Tilzer
One of several brothers who all abandoned the surname Gumm in favor of the classier sounding Von Tilzer, Albert followed carefully--and creatively--in his older brother Harry's footsteps. After working in Chicago at a music publishing establishment which was a regional outlet for the firm of Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer, Albert made the inevitable move out east and in 1904 started up the York ...more








