Biography
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Effective period / Period of releases: 1962 - 2023
British composer and conductor (15 August 1875, Holborn, London – 1 September 1912, Croydon, Surrey). Do not confuse with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.Coleridge-Taylor was of mixed-race birth and after achieving success was nick-named the "African Mahler". He is best known for the cantata trilogy The Song of Hiawatha.
His daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor was also composer and conductor.