Transcript African American Composers

Famous African American
Composer’s
William Grant Still
• Still was born in
Woodville, Mississippi on
May 11, 1895.
• He was the son of two
teachers, Carrie Lena
Fambro Still and William
Grant Still.
• William took violin lessons
and showed a great interest
in music.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
was born in London
,England on August
15,1875 his mother was
Alice Hare and his father
was Daniel Peter Taylor
who was studying at
King’s collage, London.
Scott Joplin
• Scott Joplin, the "King of
Ragtime" music, was born near
Linden, Texas on November 24,
1868. He moved with his family
to Texarkana at the age of about
seven.
• After suffering deteriorating
health due to syphilis that he
contracted some years earlier,
Joplin died on April 1, 1917 in
Manhattan State Hospital.
THOMAS WALLER
• Thomas "Fats" Waller is one of the
more important of the modern pianistcomposers. Born in New York on May
21, 1904, the son of a minister.
• Shortly after, the lure of the stage
beckoned him to the interesting field of
the Harlem cabaret, and he remained in
that gay section of the city until 1924,
occasionally doubling as a theatre
organist and as a. piano-roll artist for
the Q-R-S Company.
Tom Turpin
• Tom Turpin was born in
1873 in Savannah,
Georgia, the second son
of John and Lulu Turpin.
• Honest John" Turpin was
politically active during
Reconstruction (a street
in Savannah was named
after the Turpin Family),
and he was proud of the
fact that he never worked
for another man after
Emancipation.
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