Who was the first to print music

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wolfe8 · Answer

Would this help? http://www.pnelsoncomposer.com/writings/MusicPrintingRenaissance.html

mathslover · Answer

Please refer this link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music_publishing

anonymous · Answer

it might be in the link mathslover has provided

e.mccormick · Answer

This helpes clarify what WikiPedia brings up: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi628.htm

compassionate · Answer

To give you the historical side - No one knows who it was. 

We can only speculate.

toxicsugar22 · Answer

Johannes Gutenberg

mathslover · Answer

"Music publishing did not begin on a large scale until the mid-15th century, when mechanical techniques for printing music were first developed. The earliest example, a set of liturgical chants, dates from about 1465, shortly after the Gutenberg Bible."

e.mccormick · Answer

"Gutenberg never tried to print music. But in 1455 he borrowed 800 guilders from Johann Fust. By 1457 he'd run that debt over 2000 guilders. Fust foreclosed before Gutenberg could turn a profit. He took over the new printing business and Gutenberg's assistant, Peter Shoeffer.

That same year, Fust and Shoeffer printed a Psalter with music in it. First they printed the text and three of the four lines used in Gregorian Chant. They put the 4th line, and the notes, in by hand. Other printers did the same thing. "