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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ( August 15, 1875 - 1912) was an English composer, born in Croydon to a Sierra Leonean father and English mother.
Coleridge-Taylor studied at the Royal College of Music under Stanford, and later taught and conducted the orchestra at the Croydon Conservatory of Music . There he married one of his students, Jessie Walmisley, despite her parents' objection to his half-black parentage.
He soon earned a reputation as a composer, and his successes brought him a tour of America in 1904, which in turn increased his interest in his racial heritage. He attempted to do for African music what Brahms did for Hungarian music and Dvorak for Bohemian music. He was only 37 when he died of pneumoniaPneumonia is defined as an infection involving the alveoli of the lungs. It occurs in patients of all age groups, but young children and the elderly, as well as immunocompromised and immune deficient patients, are especially at risk. Causal therapy is wit.
Coleridge-Taylor's greatest success was perhaps his cantataCantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. In the 16th century, when all serious music was vocal, the term had no reason to exist, but with the rise o Hiawatha's Wedding-feast. He followed this with several other pieces about HiawathaFor other uses of the name Hiawatha see Hiawatha (disambiguation Minnehaha (based on Longfellow's story Hiawatha (also known as Ha-yo-went'-ha who lived around 1550, was variously a leader of the Onondaga or Mohawk nations of Native Americans. Hiawatha wa: The Death of Minnehaha, Overture to The Song of Hiawatha and Hiawatha's Departure. He also completed an array of chamber musicChamber music is a form of Classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accomodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any "art music" that is performed by a small number of performers with one perform, anthemFor the novel by Ayn Rand, see Anthem (novel). An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. The term has evolved to mean a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a certain group of people, as in thes, and African Romances for violinThe violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and double bass. The lowest string (and hen, among other works.
Coleridge-Taylor was greatly admired by African-Americans; in 1901Events January 1 World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide). January 1 The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an act of t, a 200-voice African-American chorus was founded in Washington, D.C. called the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society.