NYC’s Last Classical Sheet Music Store to Close

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Frank Music Company has supplied classical sheet music to generations of instrumentalists, singers and composers.

On Friday, the retail store will close its doors for good, succumbing to dwindling sales.

The store, on West 54th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, opened in 1937 and provided the city’s musicians scores from the standard— Bach, Beethoven —to the arcane. Ms. Rogers bought it in 1978.

Frank Music’s stock, which Ms. Rogers counts as hundreds of thousands of scores, was purchased by an anonymous donor as a gift for the Colburn School, a music conservatory in Los Angeles.

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