Robert Nathaniel Dett was a composer, organist, pianist, and music professor. He was best known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions during the 19th-century Romantic style of Classical music. Dett was born on October 11, 1882, in Drummondville, Ontario. His mother was a native […]
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