Ernst Fischer

Fischer was a German composer of operettas, film music, orchestral suites and piano music, and is best known for his large scale light music compositions.

From 1916-1922, Fischer was a student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. In 1926 he became a berlin silent film organist- and author of cinema music. He composed a number of piano solos in the then popular idiom of novelty piano. He also arranged works of other composers.

In the 1930s, Fischer became a popular radio composer, whose concert pieces were played by many light orchestras. He became known to radio listeners from the 1930s to the 1960s. Although he wrote numerous piano pieces, perhaps his most famous work is the orchestral suite Südlich der Alpen (South of the Alps).