“Fisherman's hornpipe”
Fisher's Hornpipe" is one of the most popular, widespread and frequently published fiddle tunes in the world. Composer: Fischer, Fishar, or Fisher? Maybe by the German composer Johann Christian Fischer, 1733-1800, a friend of Mozart's and composer of the once-popular Fischer's Minuet, or by J. Fishar or by James A. Fishar [ed. probably John Abraham Fisher], a dancer, musical director and ballet master at Covent Garden during the 1770's, in J. Fishar's (presumably James A. Fishar's) Sixteen Cotillons Sixteen Minuets Twelve Allemands and Twelve Hornpipes (John Rutherford, London, 1778). The piece of music has also been attributed to "18th century English fiddle player J. W. Fisher, . and few years later the melody appeared in England under the title "Lord Howe's Hornpipe" in Longman and Broderip's 5th Selection of the Most Admired Dances, Reels, Minuets and Cotillions (London, c. 1784), and in Scotland in Neil Stewart's Select Collection (1784) as "West's Hornpipe (2)." https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Fisher%27s_Hornpipe Switzerland music box: Troll 6671
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