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. Detailed AMQS on a slightly irregular 6.5 x 9.5 sheet of manuscript paper, twelve measures (including lyrics) of the song “Unmindful of the Rose” from the cycle Sorrow Songs, signed in ink “S. Coleridge Taylor.” A few faint creases, mild handling wear, and scattered light soiling and spotting, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
