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Conlon Nancarrow

Born: 27th October 1912, Texarkana, Arkansas, U.S.A

Died: 10th August 1997, Mexico City, Mexico

Nationality: American

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ability. He lived most of his life in relative isolation and did not become widely known until the 1980s.

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