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Name
  
Edward Fisher

Role
  
Musician


Died
  
May 31, 1913

Education
  
Boston Conservatory

Edward Fisher (musician)

Born
  
11 January 1848 (
1848-01-11
)

Known for
  
founder and first musical director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music

Organizations founded
  
Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music

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Edward Fisher (11 January 1848 – 31 May 1913) was a Canadian conductor, teacher, organist, and founder and first musical director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

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Born in Jamaica, Vermont, he studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1867. His teachers included Julius Eichberg, Joseph Bennett Sharland, and Whitney Eugene Thayer. He later studied in Berlin, Germany with Carl August Haupt and Carl Albert Loeschhorn. In 1875, he moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, becoming music director of the Ottawa Ladies' College and conducted the Ottawa Choral Society. Fisher moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he was an organist at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church from 1879 to 1899. He was also a music director of the Ontario Ladies’ College in Whitby, Ontario. In 1886, he started the Toronto Conservatory of Music and was appointed musical director.

He died in 1913 and was succeeded by Augustus Stephen Vogt.

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References

Edward Fisher (musician) Wikipedia


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