The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...

Coleridge-Taylor was born in 1875 to a doctor from Sierra Leone and his British wife. As a rising composer, he gained prominence in his early 20s with two major successes: the orchestral work Ballade ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...