Personal Life
Fisher was born in San Francisco, California on April 27, 1861. He studied under Antonín Dvořák and Horatio Parker at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City.
He was president of both the Music Teachers National Association and the Music Publishers' National Association. He also worked for the music publisher Oliver Ditson Company which was later taken over by the Theodore Presser Company. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts on December 18, 1948.
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