Edwin Fischer

Two drawings of Fischer by the German artist and musician Fritz Tennigkeit (1892–1949)

Edwin Fischer (October 6, 1886 – January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor.

Quotes about Fischer

• I heard Edwin Fischer, who did not mean much to me. I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful — Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers. There is a difference between artist and artisan. Levitzki was an artisan.
  • Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music