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- Robert Nathaniel Dett was a composer, organist, pianist, and music professor. He was best known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions during the 19th-century Romantic style of Classical music.
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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.
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 ...
His biographer, Anne Key Simpson, notes Dett's lifelong dedication to finding a musical form to bridge the gap between the music's simple origins and its concert performance. Dett as Conductor. Though Dett's formal training was in piano and composition, he directed choirs throughout his career.
Jan 18, 2013 · From precocious five-year-old piano player in the 1890s to internationally known choral director, composer, concert pianist, and poet, R. Nathaniel Dett became champion for preservation of the black spiritual which he called authentic American folk music: He dedicated his life to finding a musical form to bridge the gap between the music’s ...
Dec 29, 2021 · Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was a Black Canadian American composer, pianist, organist, and choir director with local roots. He was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario where he lived until he was eleven years old. (Had WNED Classical existed at that time, he probably would have been a listener!)
A true polymath, Dett was a great composer, 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 sophistocated way.
Jan 29, 2008 · Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, educator, pianist (born 11 October 1882 in Drummondville [now Niagara Falls], ON; died 2 October 1943 in Battle Creek, Michigan). His training began in Canada on piano and organ and continued in the United States and France.
