William Arms Fisher

William Arms Fisher ( * April 27 1861 in San Francisco; † 18 December 1948 in Boston) was an American composer, music historian and publisher.

Fisher studied at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York with Horatio Parker and Antonín Dvořák. He was a friend of Dvořák and sat down with him one for black students at the National Conservatory. His arrangement of the second movement of Dvorak's Symphony From the New World with the text Goin 'Home, which was also used for several movie soundtracks became famous. He arranged many Negro spirituals and published in 1926 the collection Seventy Negro Spirituals.

1897 Fisher Director of Publications, 1926 Vice President of the Oliver Ditson Company of Boston, he worked for forty years. He was twice president of the Music Teachers National Association. As a music historian, he was particularly interested in the American music of the 18th and early 19th century and has published texts the books Notes on Music in Old Boston ( Boston, 1918) and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States ( Boston, 1934) as well as the anthologies Ye Olde New England Psalm tunes from 1620 to 1820 (Boston, 1930) and The Music that Washington Knew ( Boston, 1931).

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  • Music historian
  • American composer
  • Americans
  • Born in 1861
  • Died in 1948
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