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Podcast: Classical Music Discoveries
Episode: 18187 Florence Price - Symphonies 1 and 3
Description: 2022 Grammy Winner for Best Orchestral Performance
Florence Beatrice Price (nÊe Smith; April 9, 1887 â June 3, 1953) was an African-American classical composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, who was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, plus art songs, and music for chamber and solo instruments.
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