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William Grant Still, (born May 11, 1895, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 3, 1978, Los Angeles, California), American composer and conductor and the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. Though a prolific composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works, he was best known for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1931). Still was brought up by his mother and grandmother in Little Rock <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
5 total works indexed
· 1976 · cited 43,895x
· 1983 · cited 38,991x
· 2010 · cited 30,725x
· 1958 · cited 28,527x
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