List of composers of African descent

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This is a list of composers of African ancestry.

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H. Leslie Adams

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor c. 1893

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Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway, NYC

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Scott Joplin

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Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, 1947

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Saint-Georges in 1768, aged 22
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Price, date unknown

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William Grant Still

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George Walker at right
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Fats Waller

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Dates of birth and death are unknown for several composers whose music, published during the 19th century, is described in "Historical Notes on African-American and Jamaican Melodies". These composers include Harry Bloodgood, Samuel Butler, Dudley C. Clark, Harry Davis, Pete Devonear, Fred C. Lyons, Henry Newman, James S. Putnam, and Francis V. Seymour.

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