COMPOSER

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

1875 - 1912

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor. Of mixed-race descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white musicians in New York City as the "African Mahler" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has received more than 995,993 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is the 1,332nd most popular composer (down from 1,223rd in 2019), the 4,881st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,276th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ranks 1,332 out of 1,451Before him are Horatio Parker, Henry Lawes, Tibor Serly, Vincent Persichetti, Christopher Young, and Detto Mariano. After him are John Debney, Alexander Goehr, John Stanley, Earl Scruggs, R. D. Burman, and Bruce Broughton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ranks 185Before him are Shaqe Çoba, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Émile Wegelin, and Jean-Guy Gautier. After him are Charles Perrin, Sigurður Eggerz, Émile Delchambre, Alphonzo Bell, Samuel S. Hinds, and Julius Lenhart. Among people deceased in 1912, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ranks 129Before him are Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edgar Evans, Henry Sweet, Sophia Jex-Blake, Emil Stang, and Máximo Tajes. After him are Henry Robertson Bowers, Julio Herrera y Obes, Albino Jara, William Forsell Kirby, and Richard Norman Shaw.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ranks 4,881 out of 8,785Before him are Richard Meinertzhagen (1878), Chris Dreja (1945), Richard K. Guy (1916), James Oglethorpe (1696), Malcolm Sargent (1895), and Colin Greenwood (1969). After him are John Barrowman (1967), Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin (1866), Luke Fildes (1843), Andy Fraser (1952), Ranulph Fiennes (1944), and Charles Hefferon (1878).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ranks 81Before him are Jocelyn Pook (1960), Peter Warlock (1894), John Wilbye (1574), Thomas Campion (1567), Thomas Adès (1971), and Henry Lawes (1595). After him are John Stanley (1712), Dave Stewart (1950), David Rose (1910), Anne Dudley (1956), George Butterworth (1885), and George Alexander Macfarren (1813).