Today’s featured composer/musician is Henry Thacker “Harry” Burleigh. Harry Burleigh (1866-1949) is credited, more than anyone else, with making the Black American spiritual repertoire known throughout the United States and… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is Sister Marie-Seraphine Gotay. Originally from Puerto Rico, Sister Marie-Seraphine Gotay (1865-1932) is the only Black female composer known to be active in New Orleans at the… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is Basile Barès. Basile Barès (1845-1902) is the only American composer known to have a copyright assigned to his composition while he was enslaved. He was apparently… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is Amanda Ira Aldgridge. Amanda Ira Aldridge (1866-1956) was a British opera singer, composer, and teacher who worked under the pseudonym Montague Ring. Her students included Marian… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is George Bridgetower. George Bridgetower (1778-1860) was a virtuoso violinist and composer, and he was the original dedicatee of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. He was born in Poland,… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is Jessie Montgomery. Jessie Montgomery (1981-) is a violinist and composer who began composing and improvising at the age of eleven. When she was in high school,… read more →
This post is the first in our series of features on Black composers and classical musicians throughout history. Today we feature Frederick Douglass. Many people have heard of the well-known African-American abolitionist,… read more →
As the former (and first) Managing Editor of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation’s project “Music by Black Composers project,” I am thrilled to welcome you to our brand new website.… read more →
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