william grant still

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born May 11, 1895, Woodville, Miss., U.S. died Dec. 3, 1978, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. composer. He initially intended to be a doctor but instead studied music at Oberlin College, learning clarinet, oboe, and violin. He studied composition with George Chadwick (1854-1931) and Edgard Varèse. In the 1920s he worked as an arranger for the dance-band leader Paul Whiteman and for the blues composer W.C. Handy. Still's early style was avant-garde (From the Black Belt, 1926), but from 1930 he sought to develop a distinctive African American art music in five symphonies (including his Afro-American Symphony, 1931), ballets, operas, and choral and solo vocal works
william grant still

    Hyphenation

    Wil·liam Grant still

    Turkish pronunciation

    wîlyım gränt stîl

    Pronunciation

    /ˈwəlyəm ˈgrant ˈstəl/ /ˈwɪljəm ˈɡrænt ˈstɪl/
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