Avery Fisher

Avery Fisher ( born March 4, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, † February 26, 1994 ) was an American entrepreneur, inventor and patron of music.

1937 founded the amateur violinist Fisher his first company, Philharmonic Radio. In 1945 he sold it and founded Fisher radio. Here he was instrumental in inventions or improvements in Hi- Fi systems. In the 1950s he invented, among other things, the transistor amplifier and radio combination systems. In 1969, he also sold this company, namely to the Emerson Electric Company, which resold it to Sanyo.

His name is today known primarily as a patron of classical music. The 1973 is named after him Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center hosts the New York Philharmonic, the most famous American price of classical music, the Avery Fisher Award named after him, a well-known scholarship called Avery Fisher Career Grant.