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Florence Price
Born: 9th April 1887, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Died: 3rd June 1953, Chicago
Nationality: African-American
Florence Beatrice Price was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, art songs, chamber music and music for solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in her abandoned summer home.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Price
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Further Reading: Price, F
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Michael Repper on New York Youth Symphony
14th Mar 2023
The American conductor discusses the orchestra's debut recording of music by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman and Jessie Montgomery, which won the Best Orchestral Performance prize at this year's Grammys.
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Randall Goosby on Roots
1st Jul 2021
The violinist talks to Katherine about his debut album on Decca, celebrating the influence which Black composers and performers have had on American music from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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Popular Works: Price, F
- Adoration (22)
- Barcarolle (3)
- Clouds (4)
- Dances in the Canebrakes (5)
- Deserted Garden (2)
- Dream Boat (2)
- Elfentanz (5)
- Ethiopia's Shadow in America (4)
- Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E minor (8)
- Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G minor (6)
- Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor (3)
- Fantasie No.1 in G minor for violin and piano (4)
- Fantasie No.2 in F sharp minor for violin and piano (5)
- Folksongs (5) in Counterpoint for String Quartet (2)
- Hold Fast to Dreams (4)
- Memory Mist (3)
- My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord (3)
- Night (7)
- Out of the South Blew a Wind (2)
- Piano Concerto in One Movement (6)
- Piano Quintet in A minor (3)
- Piano Sonata in E minor (10)
- Placid Lake (3)
- Preludes (3)
- Rainbow Waltz (4)
- Resignation (4)
- Song to the Dark Virgin (8)
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (5)
- Summer Moon (2)
- Sunset (3)
- Symphony No. 1 in E minor (6)
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor (6)
- Symphony No. 4 in D minor (2)
- The Deserted Garden (4)
- The Goblin and the Mosquito (2)
- The Oak (2)
- The old boatman (3)
- Ticklin' Toes (3)
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D (3)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (4)
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