Yankee Grit
Abraham "Abe" Holzmann was born in New York in 1874 to a Hungarian-immigrant father and an American mother and studied music in Germany.
Holzmann became the manager of the Orchestra Department at Jerome Remick & Company, the New York music publisher, and was an early member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He earned his livelihood as a composer/arranger for Tin Pan Alley publishers, including Leo Feist. He was later an advertising manager for the American Federation of Musicians publication, International Musician.
Holzmann died in East Orange, New Jersey at age 64 in 1939. His music was especially revered by ragtime enthusiasts, although he composed marches, waltzes, and other light music. He is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!
Yankee Grit was written in 1905 and follows the tradition and style of the great American marches of the era.