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.
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The Isidore Quartet on 'Adorations'
17th Jun 2026
The quartet's members discuss the works that comprise their debut album, and the influence of earlier generations of quartets on their own musicmaking.
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Ted Black on the songs of Florence Price
8th Jun 2026
The rising young tenor discusses recording the American composer's many unpublished art songs, which he describes as sounding like 'a cross between Brahms and Cole Porter'.
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- Adoration (29)
- Barcarolle in A major (3)
- Clouds (4)
- Dances in the Canebrakes (5)
- Deserted Garden (2)
- Elfentanz (6)
- Ethiopia's Shadow in America (4)
- Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E minor (9)
- 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 (6)
- Hold Fast to Dreams (5)
- I Grew a Rose (3)
- Memory Mist (3)
- My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord (3)
- Night (8)
- 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 (5) (3)
- Resignation (4)
- Song to the Dark Virgin (9)
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (6)
- Summer Moon (2)
- Sunset (4)
- 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 Moon Bridge (3)
- The Oak (3)
- The old boatman (4)
- Ticklin' Toes (3)
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D (3)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (4)
- We Have Tomorrow (3)
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Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
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Ecstatic Ensemble, Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano), Leif Aruhn-Solén, Jeanette Köhn, Sofia Niklasson, David Risberg, Gustav Nordlander, Didier Linder, Olof Akre, Christiane Højlund, Elin Skorup, Sara Niklasson
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Coming soon. Winter
Raphaela Gromes (violoncello), Julian Riem (piano), Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Olivia Belli (piano), Signum Saxophone Quartet, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Goldmund Quartet, Gordon Hamilton
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