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Fred Fisher

Fred Fisher ( - ) est un compositeur américain d'origine allemande, éditeur de musique de Tin Pan Alley.

Fred Fisher
Nom de naissance Albert von Breitenbach
Naissance
Cologne, Drapeau de l'Empire allemand Empire allemand
Décès (à 66 ans)
Manhattan
Activité principale Compositeur, éditeur de musique
Années actives Années 1900–1940

Biographie

Fisher naît Albert von Breitenbach à Cologne. Après avoir visité les États-Unis en 1892, il émigre en 1900 et adopte le nom Fred Fischer. Il crée la Fred Fischer Music Publishing Company en 1907. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale il change son nom de famille pour Fisher pour faire moins allemand[1].

En 1914, Fred Fisher Ă©pouse Ana Fisher nĂ©e Davidovitch, plus tard anglicisĂ© en Davis, nĂ©e en 1896). Leurs enfants Daniel (« Danny » (1920–2001), Marvin (1916–1993) et Doris Fisher (chanteuse) (en) (1915–2003) composent Ă©galement des chansons de façon professionnelle[2]. Fisher se suicide par pendaison Ă  Manhattan[3] - [4] et est inhumĂ© au cimetière Maimonides Ă  Brooklyn.

En 1970 Fred Fisher est intronisé au Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Compositions (sélection)

Filmographie

Galerie

  • Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1910)
    Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (1910)
  • They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me (1917)
    They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me (1917)
  • Dardanella (1919)
    Dardanella (1919)
  • Chicago (1922
    Chicago (1922

Bibliographie

Références générales

  • American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
  • American Popular Songs. From the Revolutionary War to the present. Edited by David Ewen. New York: Random House, 1966
  • American Songwriters. By David Ewen. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1987
  • The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. Third edition. New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1966
  • ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. Fourth edition. Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers by Jaques Cattell Press. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1980
  • Biographical Dictionary of American Music. By Charles Eugene Claghorn. West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co., 1973
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 1: January 1946 - July 1949. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 6: September 1961 - August 1964. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1965
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 15: September 1986 - August 1988. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1988
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 16: September 1988 - August 1990. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1990
  • The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950. Three volumes. By Roger D. Kinkle. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974. Biographies are located in Volumes 2 and 3
  • Dictionary of Pseudonyms. Third edition. By Adrian Room. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998
  • The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Third edition. Eight volumes. Edited by Colin Larkin. London: MUZE, 1998. Grove's Dictionaries, New York, 1998
  • The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Composers and their music. Supplement. By William H. Rehrig. Westerville, OH: Integrity Press, 1996
  • The New American Dictionary of Music. By Philip D. Morehead with Anne MacNeil. New York: Dutton, 1991
  • The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Four volumes. ÉditĂ© par Hugh Wiley Hitchcock et Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Press, 1986
  • Notable Names in the American Theatre. Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co., 1976. Earlier edition published as The Biographical Encyclopaedia and Who's Who of the American Theatre
  • The Oxford Companion to Popular Music. By Peter Gammond. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1991
  • Popular American Composers. From Revolutionary times to the present. A biographical and critical guide. First edition. Compiled and edited by David Ewen. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1962
  • Songwriters. A biographical dictionary with discographies. By Nigel Harrison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998
  • Sweet and Lowdown. America's popular song writers. By Warren Craig. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. Biographies appear in the 'After Tin Pan Alley' section, beginning on page 91
  • Tin Pan Alley. An encyclopedia of the golden age of American song. By David A. Jasen. New York: Routledge, 2003

Notes et références

  1. Jack Gottlieb, Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood, Volume 1, p. 25, SUNY Press (2004) (ISBN 0-8444-1130-2), (ISBN 9780844411309)
  2. Honor Roll of Popular Song Writers: no 13 - Fred Fisher, by Jack Burton, Billboard (magazine), p. 48, 19 mars 1949
  3. Songwriters Attend Fred Fisher's Rites: Buck Praises Him for Great Contribution to Music, The New York Times, 17 janvier 1942
  4. Hit Songs' Author Suicide by Hanging, The New York Times, 15 janvier 1942

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