Carl Fischer Music
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| Founded | 1872 |
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| Founder | Carl Fischer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Publication types | Sheet music |
| Official website | www |
Carl Fischer Music is a major sheet music publisher that was based in New York City’s East Village since 1872. The company has since moved to the Wall Street area in 2013. After 140 years, the company remains a family-owned business, publishing both performance and educational music for students, teachers, and virtuosos. Carl Fischer’s composers and editors give clinics and sessions all over the country, and the company claims to serve more than 1400 retailers around the world.
In 1872, Carl Fischer opened his musical instrument repair shop in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Noticing that many of his customers were searching for instrumental arrangements of well-known works that didn’t exist, Fischer began creating and reproducing arrangements, which led him into the music publishing business.
Carl Fischer also was a Musical Instrument Dealer, and imported wooden flutes made by Emil Rittershausen, Berlin Germany from late 1800's to 1944. Rittershausen is well documented in the New Langewell Index of musical instruments.
Following the world wars, and US import bans, Carl Fischer was no longer able to import the Rittershause or other European made instruments, and thus Rittershausen and many other fine makers of instruments went out of business.
As the company grew and diversified, Fischer's three sons joined the team: Carl, Jr., Walter S. and George. In 1924, Carl Fischer Music was invited to be a member of ASCAP, adding the company’s publications to a respected network of artists and composers. The company continued to grow, necessitating the building of Carl Fischer’s new headquarters in 1926, located in Cooper Square, Manhattan. This building housed administrative offices and a sprawling retail store.
Carl Fischer became the pre-eminent publisher of music for concert band composers such as Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa and the famous transcriptions of Erik W. G. Leidzén and Mayhew Lake.
Walter S. Fischer succeeded his father as president of Carl Fischer Music, and in 1939, his son-in-law, Frank Hayden Connor became his assistant. Though they began contributing in the 1920s, it was the 1930s and 1940s that were marked by the significant contributions of works and arrangements from classical music superstars such as Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, and Joseph Szigeti. Frank Hayden Connor became the president of the company and opened Carl Fischer’s second retail location, which also housed a beautiful concert hall, in midtown Manhattan. This five-story building was the largest music store in New York City until it was sold in 1959.
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