Pioneering and highly regarded Afro-British musician (1875–1912), known as the “Black Mahler,” who takes a place among the earliest black composers to work in a classical idiom. Scarce AMQS on the reverse of a handwritten quote of Gray’s Elegy, 8 x 6.5. Coleridge-Taylor pens three bars from ‘A Ballad in D Minor’ in pencil, signing below, “S. Coleridge-Taylor, Jan. 18, 1900.” Uniform toning, show-through from the writing on the reverse, and a rough right edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
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