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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

(1875-1912), Composer

Sitter in 6 portraits
Anglo-African composer born in London to an English mother and Creole father, Dr Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor from Sierra Leone, whom he never knew. He began playing the violin at the age of five, joining the choir of St George's Presbyterian Church in Croydon, where H. A. Walters oversaw his musical development and later helped organise his admission to the Royal College of Music in 1890. He came to prominence in 1898 at the Gloucester Festival with an orchestral Ballade in A Minor, followed by his much acclaimed trilogy Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898), The Death of Minnehaha (1899), and Hiawatha's Departure (1900). Sir Hubert Parry, the principal of the Royal College of Music described the first performance of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast as 'one of the most remarkable events in modern English musical history'.

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, by Walter Wallis - NPG 5724Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
by Walter Wallis
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, by Harry John Kempsell, for French and Co - NPG x32771Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
by Harry John Kempsell, for French and Co
NPG x32771
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, published by Breitkopf & Hartel - NPG x135708Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
published by Breitkopf & Hartel
NPG x135708
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, by E.O. Hoppé - NPG x132921Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
by E.O. Hoppé
NPG x132921
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, after Elliott & Fry - NPG x135999Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
after Elliott & Fry
NPG x135999
The Makers of British Music: Famous Living British Composers of the Old School and the New, after Samuel Begg - NPG D42284The Makers of British Music: Famous Living British Composers of the Old School and the New
after Samuel Begg
NPG D42284

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