Article: Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was the first major classical composer of African descent.

Coleridge-Taylor's 1898 choral work Hiawatha's Wedding Feast was extraordinarily widely known among British classical listeners in the early years of the twentieth century. Although it was later eclipsed in popularity, it was performed all over the English-speaking world for several generations. Coleridge-Taylor was equally important as an early example of a composer who investigated the idea of an art rooted in the experience of the African diaspora, and his influence on African-American culture in the early decades of the twentieth century is ...

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