Fisher, Leander

Wiki entry: none found.

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Leander Fisher

Leander Fisher (1850?-1917??) is a rather elusive American composer. He may have been a `professor' [teacher] of music in New York; his dates are uncertain.

Piece	MP3	Midi	Genre
The Robin's Return		MIDI	piano salon CD1
	Subtitled Caprice, this is by far Fisher's best-known piece. I have several copies of it, both bound into Globe and Paxton albums, and individually bound into private albums. I tracked down some further information on the Web. The copy at Ball State University has two copyright notices, one dated 1870 to Jewett and Mischka [who they?], the other to Leander Fisher dated 1898. Explanations welcomed! Did LF write this in 1870, sell to J&M, and then issue a revision in 1898? Allegedly, a companion piece, The Robin's Departure, has been tracked to 1875. This piece may have been composed as an `encore' piece, or to stretch intermediate students. I haven't found a performance or sequence of any decent quality or interest. Only one of the editions I found has metronone indications, but these seem very slow to me [MM92 for the allegretto, 112 for the animato], perhaps intended for the student market so as not to make the piece sound impossible? Anyway, at that speed it's not animato, more a leaden pretty-pretty. It was said that this was a piece that my father's mother [whom I never met] used to "rattle off".

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