Forster Music Publisher, Inc. was a major
American publisher of popular songs founded in 1916 in Chicago by Fred John Adam Forster (1878–1956).[1] The company had an office in New York and its music was of the
Tin Pan Alley genre. For most of its existence, the firm was located at 216 South Wabash, Chicago.
History
Forster founded an earlier firm, F. J. A. Forster, in 1903 as a
jobber in sheet music. In 1922, Forster merged F. J. A. Forster with Forster Music Publisher, Inc.[2]