William Grant Still
Born: 11th May 1895, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.A
Died: 3rd December 1978, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A
Nationality: American
William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works. Born in Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Still attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of George Whitefield Chadwick and then as a student of Edgard Varèse. Because of his close association and collaboration with prominent African-American literary and cultural figures, Still is considered to be part of the Harlem Renaissance.
Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. He is known primarily for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1930), which, until 1950, was the most widely performed symphony composed by an American.
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- Sahdji (2)
- ‘The Blues' from Lenox Avenue (4)
- A Black Pierrot (from Songs of Separation) (1)
- A Deserted Plantation (2)
- Africa (6)
- American Suite (2)
- And They Lynched Him on a Tree (1)
- Arias (2) from Highway 1, U.S.A. (1)
- Cameos (2) (1)
- Can'tcha Line 'Em (1)
- Christmas in the Western World, 'Las Pascuas' (1)
- Cloud Cradles (No. 1 from Seven Traceries) (1)
- Danzas de Panama (7)
- Darker America (2)
- Dismal Swamp (1)
- Elegy (2)
- Ennanga (2)
- Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron (1)
- Festive Overture (1)
- Folk Suite No. 4 (2)
- From the Black Belt (2)
- Grief (1)
- Here's One (7)
- In Memoriam (1)
- Incantation and Dance (3)
- Kaintuck - Poem for Two Pianos (1)
- Land of Romance from Africa (1)
- Lenox Avenue (4)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1)
- Lyric Quartette (2)
- Memphis Man (1)
- Miniatures (3)
- Pastorela (4)
- Poem for Orchestra (1)
- Quit dat Fool'nish (2)
- Reverie (6)
- Romance (3)
- Romance for Saxophone & Piano (1)
- Serenade for Orchestra (2)
- Seven Traceries (4)
- Song for the Lonely (4)
- Songs of Separation (6)
- Suite for Violin and Piano (8)
- Summerland (6)
- Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) (1)
- Symphony No. 1 'Afro-American' (10)
- Symphony No. 2 in G minor 'Song of a New Race' (4)
- Symphony No. 3 (1)
- Symphony No. 4 ‘Autochthonous’ (3)
- Symphony No. 5 ‘Western Hemisphere’ (1)
- Three Visions (7)
- Three Visions: II. Summerland (2)
- Threnody in Memory of Jean Sibelius (1)
- Vignettes (1)
- Wailing woman (1)
- Wood Notes (2)
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