Fleisher, Edwin A(dler)
Fleisher, Edwin A(dler)
Fleisher, Edwin A(dler), American music patron; b. Philadelphia, July 11, 1877; d. there, Jan. 9, 1959. He studied at Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1899). He founded a Sym. Club in Philadelphia (1909) and engaged conductors to rehearse an amateur orch. there. At the same time he began collecting orch. scores and complete sets of parts, which became the nucleus of the great Edwin A. Fleisher Collection, presented by him to the Free Library of Philadelphia. A cumulative catalog covering the period from 1929 to 1977 was publ. in Boston in 1979.
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