Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
From Astro-Databank
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| born on | 15 August 1875 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon ) | ||
| Place | London, England, 51n30, 0w10 | ||
| Timezone | GMT h0w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   22°12'   03°21 Asc. 07°25'
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Biography
British composer, the son of an English white mother and African black father. He showed exceptional talent as a 5-year-old child playing his violin and singing in the choir. His father, apparently because of racial prejudice, had difficulty becoming a physician, and, when Samuel was a boy, his father deserted him and his mother to return to his native West Africa.
In college, Samuel studied music and composition. In 1896 he became conductor of an amateur orchestra in Croydon and began teaching, conducting, and performing recitals and at music festivals. He continued to compose, and in 1898, presented "Ballade in A Minor" at the Gloucester Festival to positive reviews. His best known piece was the Longfellow trilogy for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, with the first in the series being "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" in 1898, the second "The Death of Minnehaha (1899) and finally, "Hiawatha's Departure" in 1900. He toured in the United States in 1904, 1906 and 1910 and was well-received.
He was married with two children, and he died on September 1, 1912 in Croydon.
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 1 September 1912
- Work : Great Achievement 1898 (first piece in the Longfellow Trilogy)
Source Notes
Wemyss gives "about midday" in "Wheel of Life."
Categories
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Violin)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger
- Traits : Body : Race (Mixed race)
- Notable : Book Collection : Culture Collection
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (one)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (two children)
- Family : Childhood : Parent, Single or Step (raised primarily by his mother; father deserted the family)
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Music (played violin and sang at age 5)
