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Portrait photograph of William Henry Fry. William Henry Fry (August 10, 1813 – December 21, 1864) was an American composer, music critic, and journalist.Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a publicly performed opera. [1]
Florence Price (1887–1953), American composer of 4 symphonies, the second of which (c. 1935) is lost; her first (1932) is recognized as the first symphony by an African-American female composer; Yuri Shaporin (1887–1966), Russian composer of 2 symphonies; Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), German composer of 2 symphonies
Symphony Hall, Boston, the main base of the orchestra since 1900. The earliest American classical music consists of part-songs used in religious services during Colonial times. The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]
The following is a chronological list (by year of birth) of American composers of classical music. Baroque ... Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society.
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Afro-American Symphony, also known as Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" and Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, is a 1930 composition by William Grant Still, the first symphony written by an African American and performed for a United States audience by a leading orchestra.
W. S. B. Matthews' A Hundred Years of Music in America is the first attempt at a history of "popular and the higher music education" in the country; it hails Lowell Mason as the founder of American music. [24] [56] The first African American woman to compose a produced opera is Louisa Melvin Delos Mars, with Leoni, the Gypsy Queen. [57]
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Anthony Philip Heinrich (March 11, 1781 – May 3, 1861) was the first "full-time" American composer, and the most prominent before the American Civil War. [1] He did not start composing until he was 36, after losing his business fortune in the Napoleonic Wars.