Edward Fisher (musician)

Edward Fisher (11 January 1848 – 31 May 1913) was a Canadian conductor, teacher, organist, and founder and first musical director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

Born in Jamaica, Vermont, he studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1867.

His teachers included Julius Eichberg, Joseph Bennett Sharland, and Whitney Eugene Thayer.

Fisher moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he was an organist at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church from 1879 to 1899.

He died in Toronto on 31 May 1913 and was succeeded by Augustus Stephen Vogt.