Carnegie Hall is a concert hall in New York . The money for building it was given by Andrew Carnegie , a very rich businessman from Scotland . Other concert halls that bear Carnegie 's name include 420-seat Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg , West Virginia ; 1928-seat Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , on the main site of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh ; 1022-seat Carnegie Music Hall annexed to Pittsburgh suburb Homestead 's Carnegie library ; and Carnegie Hall , a 540-seat venue , in Andrew Carnegie 's native Dunfermline .