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George Alexander Fischer

d. 1922

Best known for writing about music and for the novel This Labyrinthine Life, this early-20th-century author moved between biography, criticism, and fiction. His surviving books suggest a writer interested both in major composers and in dramatic western settings.

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Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven

Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven

by George Alexander Fischer

About the author

George Alexander Fischer was an American author whose known works include Beethoven: A Character Study, Together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven and the 1907 novel This Labyrinthine Life: A Tale of the Arizona Desert. The range of those books shows a writer comfortable in both music writing and imaginative fiction.

Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce in easily accessible sources. Based on the works confirmed during this search, he was active in the early 1900s and was still being identified in library and public-domain records as the author of studies on Beethoven as well as fiction set in the American Southwest.

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