Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who enjoyed considerable acclaim in the early years of the 20th century.
Coleridge-Taylor’s
father, thwarted in his attempts to progress as a physician—through
apparent racial prejudice—deserted his son and English wife and returned
to his native West Africa. At the age of five Samuel began playing the violin and joined the choir of a Presbyterian church in Croydon, where H.A.
Walters guided his progress and arranged his admittance to the Royal
College of Music in 1890.
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