William Arms Fisher

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William Arms Fisher (born April 27, 1861 in San Francisco , † December 18, 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 friends with Dvořák and together with him campaigned for the colored students at the National Conservatory. His arrangement of the second movement of Dvořák's Symphony From the New World with the text Goin 'Home , which was also used for several film soundtracks, became famous. He arranged numerous Negro Spirituals and in 1926 published the Seventy Negro Spirituals collection .

In 1897 Fisher became director of publications, in 1926 vice president of the Oliver Ditson Company in Boston, for which he worked for forty years. He was twice president of the Music Teachers National Association . As a music historian, he was particularly interested in American music of the 18th and early 19th centuries and published a. a. 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) and the anthologies Ye Olde New-England Psalm tunes 1620-1820 (Boston, 1930) and The Music that Washington Knew (Boston, 1931).

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SURNAME Fisher, William Arms
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, music historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1948
Place of death Boston