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1. • • Robert Nathaniel Dett was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and career there.
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   • Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor.

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   • Robert Dett was born in Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 11, 1882, the youngest of four children of educated and musically talented parents. In 1893 the family moved to Niagara Falls, NY, where they operated a tourist home.

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   • Dett died in Battle Creek on October 2, 1943. He is buried in his hometown of Niagara Falls. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, which is named for him and based in Toronto, performs Afrocentric music of all types and is the first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music.

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   • His interest in Black folk music was further encouraged by soprano and educator E. Azalia Hackley, who heard Dett perform at Hackley’s music festival in 1908. Sepia colored photograph of American music composer and conductor Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882 – 1943), early 20th century.

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   Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and ...

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   Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882 – 1943), one of history’s greatest musicians of African descent, was multi-talented – not only as a composer, but also as a choir leader, pianist, teacher, poet, and writer. During his lifetime, he was lauded as the first American composer to fuse Negro folk music with the European art music tradition in a ...

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   Jan 18, 2013 · Robert Nathaniel Dett was born October 11, 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario, Canada, a town founded prior to the American Civil War by fugitive slaves from the U.S. His early experience included absorbing spirituals his grandmother sang, playing piano in church, and studying piano locally.

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   Biography. Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in Drummondsville, Ontario, Canada, on October 11, 1882. His ancestors were among the slaves who escaped to the North and settled in that slave-founded town. In 1901, Dett began studying piano with Oliver Willis Halstead in nearby Lockport.

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   Dett was the first person of African descent to graduate from Oberlin Conservatory, earning a BM in piano and composition in 1908.

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     Dett, Robert Nathaniel (1882 -1943) Ave Maria, for 4 part chorus of mixed voices with baritone solo.

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    Jun 8, 2018 · African American composer, conductor, and music educator Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) elevated the African American folk spiritual into an art form. Robert Dett was born in Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 11, 1882, the youngest of four children of educated and musically talented parents.

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    Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in Drummondsville, Ontario, Canada, on 11 October 1882. Part of a musical family, Dett was encouraged to study piano along with his two older brothers. After he and his family moved to Niagara Falls, New York, he continued his musical studies at the Oliver Willis Halstead Conservatory.