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Florence Beatrice Price
12+ albums
composerClassicalamericanpiano20th Century
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Florence Beatrice Price (April 9, 1887–June 3, 1953) was an American composer. Florence Price is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots. Her mother, a soprano and pianist, carefully guided her early musical training, and at age fourteen, she enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music with a major in piano and organ. She studied composition and counterpoint with George Whitefield Chadwick and Frederick Converse, writing her first string trio and symphony in college, and graduating in 1907 with honors and both an artist diploma in organ and a teaching certificate. She taught in Arkansas from 1907-1927 and married Thomas J. Price, an attorney, in 1912. After a series of racial incidents in Little Rock, particularly a lynching that took place in 1927, the family moved to Chicago where Price began a new and fulfilling period in her compositional career. She studied composition, orchestration, and organ with the leading teachers in the city including Arthur Olaf Anderson, Carl Busch, Wesley La Violette, and Leo Sowerby and published four pieces for piano in 1928. While in Chicago, Price was at various times enrolled at the Chicago Musical College, Chicago Teacher’s College, Chicago University, and American Conservatory of Music, studying languages and liberal arts subjects as
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String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile (Arr. Colbert for String Ensemble)
16,2952Piano Concerto in One Movement: Adagio cantabile
14,0873Symphony No. 3 in C Minor: II. Andante ma non troppo
13,0834Adoration
12,7735Dances in the Canebrakes (Arr. W.G. Still for Orchestra): No. 1, Nimble Feet
7,0796Adoration (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Julian Riem)
4,8777Adoration (Version for Solo Violin and String Orchestra)
4,2778Adoration (Arr. Gray for Violin and Orchestra)
3,8119Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major: II. Andante
3,62810Piano Concerto in One Movement: II. Adagio cantabile
2,741albums
Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile (Arr. Colbert for String Ensemble)
Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement: Adagio cantabile
Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Price: Adoration
Price: Adoration (Arr. Gray for Violin and Orchestra)
Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor
Florence Price Piano Discoveries
Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price
Florence Price: Concerto/Symphony in E Minor
Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America
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