Music agency and publisher based in New York City.

Associated Music Publishers (AMP) was founded in 1927 by Paul Heinicke, originally as a sole American agency for leading European music publishing houses, including Universal Edition of Vienna. The firm later built up a substantial published list of compositions by American composers such as Carter, Cowell, Harris, Piston, and Riegger. Hugo Winter, one of the three co-directors of UE after 1932, emigrated to the USA in 1938 and later became Vice-President of AMP.

The firm was acquired by G. Schirmer in 1964, then by Macmillan Inc. in 1968, Schirmer and AMP being subsequently acquired by the Music Sales Group in 1986. AMP continued to add leading American composers such as Adams, Corigliano, and Harbison to its list.

AMP and Schenker

At the time (1932‒c.1935) that an abbreviated schools version of Schenker's Harmonielehre by Otto Vrieslander was under consideration by Universal Edition in Vienna, either an English-language translation of this edition by Hans Weisse (who by this time was living in New York and teaching at the David Mannes Music School), or an American edition and translation by Weisse, seems to have been floated, the latter to be issued by AMP, but Weisse rejected the idea unconditionally. The matter is discussed in a letter from Weisse to Schenker of March 15, 1934 (OJ 15/16, [94]), and ultimately came to nothing.

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