biography
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Still, William Grant
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1978)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Woodville, Mississippi, USA. He studied medicine, switching to the study of composition at the Oberlin Conservatory. He worked as an arranger of popular music, and played in theatre and night-club orchestras while studying under Varèse. His music includes five operas, four symphonies, three ballets, chamber and choral music, and orchestral pieces. Known especially for his ‘Afro-American Symphony’ (1931), he became the first African-American conductor of a professional symphony orchestra in the USA. |
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