Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Research Paper

The composer that will be presented in this project is an Afro-British composer named Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Coleridge-Taylor was known for his famous compositions around the United Kingdom towards the United States. He was first acknowledged as a violinist, pianist, poet and singer at a young age, but throughout his lifetime, he was well-known for his compositions from the Royal College of Music to Trinity College of Music to being known globally. In speaking of the Trinity College of Music, did you know he became a professor of composition for seven years? Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s story is a very interesting piece from his younger years to his death.
Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, United Kingdom in 1875 and his parents were surgeon and Sierra Leone native, Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor and Englishwoman, Alice Hare Martin-Taylor (formerly Holmans). He grew up in Croydon, England with his mom, while his father returned to Africa. While his dad left to Africa, he was raised by
After another year later of attending Sir George Grove’s Royal College of Music, Coleridge-Taylor decides to switch from violin to composition under the teaching of Charles Villiers Stanford, a well-known Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor and born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Ireland. In composition, Coleridge-Taylor had works performed in public while still a student at the college for the next 3 years. By the year of 1895, Coleridge-Taylor started conducting the Croydon Conservatory Orchestra. A year later at Coleridge-Taylor’s graduation, he tossed a music piece into a fire because it didn’t meet with Stanford’s approval, however, his good friend, William Hurlstone rescued the piece before it was charred and burned