That's sad to hear, and strange timing in as much as only a couple of weeks ago I decided to look into the life of this person who had been so instrumental (forgive the pun)..

He did indeed have quite a career, and it's weird to think that he never met Prince in person. In fact that's downright odd...it's not like they just did one track together.

Styles said:

From the first Cadence of Christopher Tracey's Parade, my eyes opened up to an entire new way of thinking musically. Then I found: Ask Rufus, Destiny and most notably Paprika Plains by Joni and I was spellbound......

This is a mind and spirit that I will miss incredibly.....

Jshua

Nice to see someone else give 'Paprika Plains' some love....Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is my absolute favorite album.

Very sad news....

RIP Clare who I also thought was a women for many years until the org cleared that up for me.

His music brought magic to many many Prince songs..a few of my favorites include:

Pink Cashmere

Te Amo Corozon

All of Parade

RIP. A great talent. Prince's music is all the better for Clare Fischer's involvement.

Definitely Pink Cashmere...

BartVanHemelen said:

http://www.redbullmusicac...the-family

Great link .. thanks Bart

This really upset me when I heard.

Doing a Clare Fischer compilation now

Very sad news indeed. His contribution to Prince's sound is immense and intrinsic. I love what he added to Prince's music, and there's often a track that you'd think 'I think this would be better with some strings' - and not just any strings, it'd have to be a Clare Fischer arrangement.

Reading his credit on Prince liners was as tantalising as those immortal produced, arranged, composed and performed by credits.

I'm sure it will help his family to know how much his music touched so many.

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He lived a long and amazing life... all of us should be so lucky.

In my musical naivete I used to credit everything in Prince's music to Prince. And I always loved the melancholic string arrangements added to many of his songs.

His input on Prince's catalogue is immeasurable and he will be missed.

Wow. RIP Clare Fisher.

Big loss, can you imagine Parade without the woodwinds in Life can Be So Nice, here we had a classical guy who was just as brilliantly mad as our little funkster and could match the quirkiness, I seriously doubt anyone else in his world could do that as well, it was fated. RIP and thank you.

RIP to the man with the beautiful strings....

He will be missed....

Real sad about this one, I would always read his name on various album credits when I was a kid. Wow, another amazing talent gone.

His solo works were amazing too. He was a real talent. I loved almost everything he did with Prince. He made some of the most beautiful string arrangements I've ever heard. He was a big inspiration to me & he will be missed......

R.I.P. Clare Fischer

BartVanHemelen said:

http://www.redbullmusicac...the-family

This was very interesting - you could see what a consummate professional he was. I love that there's people who take their work seriously, LOVE what they do, and take pride in their craft. I liked when he talked about the singer who also played bunch of instruments, how that made him a better singer, and Clare Fischer called him a "complete musician." Of course, I also liked when the interviewer asked how Prince was as a musician, and Clare said "he's sick!" He said earlier in the interview that he liked working for/with people who just give him the song to put on the orchestrations as he sees fit, since that's his expertise, and I remember from somewhere that that's what Prince did. The example of "I Wonder U" was really good - just the vocals & bass and rhythm pattern, then Clare put on that amazing orchestration.

He will be missed.

RIP

this makes me so sad.

I was just listening to Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, and looking at my album cover today, happened to flip to the back of it and saw Clare Fischer did the string arrangements for it. What timing.

His immeasureable contribution will be missed. His spirit guides all musicians.

Without a doubt this man was very important 4 Prince&Paisley artists´s music!!

So many great memories and I really was a fan of the string arrangements....

(I didn´t know Prince never met him, strange at least! )

Respect, RIP

I wonder if he did the arrangement at the start of 'The Ladder'? That just popped into my head - such a mature and fitting sound, it gave real gravitas to the start of that song.

Rest In Peace Mr. Fischer

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artist76 said:

BartVanHemelen said:

http://www.redbullmusicac...the-family

This was very interesting - you could see what a consummate professional he was. I love that there's people who take their work seriously, LOVE what they do, and take pride in their craft. I liked when he talked about the singer who also played bunch of instruments, how that made him a better singer, and Clare Fischer called him a "complete musician." Of course, I also liked when the interviewer asked how Prince was as a musician, and Clare said "he's sick!" He said earlier in the interview that he liked working for/with people who just give him the song to put on the orchestrations as he sees fit, since that's his expertise, and I remember from somewhere that that's what Prince did. The example of "I Wonder U" was really good - just the vocals & bass and rhythm pattern, then Clare put on that amazing orchestration.

He will be missed.

i really enjoyed the doc too, he seemed like an incredibly passionate person, he lived to a good age & left his mark , thankyou dr fischer! RIP x

We've lost a fine, lovely man and a great musician

I was fortunate to see him live in a solo-concert in Vienna in 2001

Rest in Peace Mr. Clare Fisher

I'm watching the docu, is it true that Prince produced Celine Dions first english record? that's interesting.

petes2 said:

I'm watching the docu, is it true that Prince produced Celine Dions first english record? that's interesting.

uh, no. he gave her a song for her second English language album, though.

R.I.P

I just saw Screams of Passion this morning,My heart goes out to his family.

R.I.P. Clare Fisher