(1866-12-02)December 2, 1866 Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
September 12, 1949(1949-09-12) (aged 82) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Singer, composer, arranger
Musical artist
Harry Burleigh (born Henry Thacker Burleigh, December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949) was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black composer who was instrumental in developing characteristically American music, Burleigh made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form.[3]
Burleigh also introduced Antonín Dvořák to Black American music, which influenced some of Dvořák's most famous compositions and led him to say that Black music would be the basis of an American classical music.
^"Current Comment – Harry Burleigh". Portland Press Herald. Vol. 88. Portland, Maine. September 23, 1949. p. 18. ISSN 2689-5919. OCLC 232117688 – via Newspapers.com.
^"New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 for Henry Thacker Burleigh". Ancestry. August 12, 1909. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
^Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Co. p. 284.
HarryBurleigh (born Henry Thacker Burleigh, December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949) was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer...
audience for the spirituals and their derivatives. Black composers, HarryBurleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett, created a "new repertoire for the concert stage"...
contributed lyrics to Randy Weston's Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960). HarryBurleigh set the poem "Lovely, dark, and lonely one" from the 1932 collection...
as HarryBurleigh David Ladd as David Chandler Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Enos Davis (Quaker) James Westerfield as Birm Bates Dean Stanton as Jeb Burleigh Thomas...
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Weldy Forty Guns (1957) as Sheriff Ned Logan The Proud Rebel (1958) as HarryBurleigh King Creole (1958) as Mr. Fisher The Nun's Story (1959) as Dr. Van Der...
thanks to his student HarryBurleigh, who used to sing him songs from the plantations which Dvořák noted down. The fact that Burleigh's grandmother was part...
are many other musical settings, including songs by Maurice Blower, HarryBurleigh, Rebecca Clarke, Frederick Delius, Cecil Forsyth, Ivor Gurney, Fritz...
Abeshouse, to release newly recorded works of composers such as Price and HarryBurleigh, whose importance often has been lost in historical accounts of the...
with Antonín Dvořák and contemporary black aestheticians, including HarryBurleigh, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Alain Locke and Zora Neale Hurston. It is in...
(1911–1977) Willy Burkhard (1900–1955) Ladislav Burlas (1927–2024) HarryBurleigh (1866–1949) R D Burman (1939–1994) S D Burman (1906–1975) Charles Burney...
businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1926) 1866 – HarryBurleigh, American singer-songwriter (d. 1949) 1876 – Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish...
– Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894) September 12 HarryBurleigh, American composer (b. 1866) Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician...
later composers such as his pupil, the African American composer Harry Thacker Burleigh. George Bristow was an important composer of the latter 19th century...
Barber Jean Paul Kürsteiner (1864–1943), sacred and dramatic songs HarryBurleigh (1866–1949), student of Dvořák, spiritual arrangements and other songs...
3:21 "In Christ There Is No East or West" (Episcopal Church Hymn) (HarryBurleigh, John Oxenham) – 2:42 Side two: "The Transcendental Waterfall" (Fahey)...
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student HarryBurleigh. Burleigh, who mopped floors to pay for his tuition, sang spirituals as he worked and drew the interest of Dvorak. Burleigh's rendering...
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