Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer and conductor who was mixed-race; his father was a Sierra Leone Creole physician. Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the "African Mahler" at the time when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He was particularly known for his three cantatas based on the epic poem, Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 22.

He married an Englishwoman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son Hiawatha adapted his father's music for a variety of performances. Their daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor also became a composer-conductor.

List of compositions

With opus number

• Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 – 1893
• Nonet in F minor for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano, Op. 2 – 1894
• Suite for Violin and Organ (or piano), Op. 3 (Suite de Piêces)- 1893
• Ballade in D minor, Op. 4 – 1895
• Five Fantasiestücke, Op. 5 – 1896
• Little Songs for Little Folks, Op. 6 – 1898
• Zara's Earrings, Op. 7 – 1895
• Symphony in A minor, Op. 8 – 1896
• Two Romantic Pieces, Op. 9 – 1896
• Quintet in F sharp minor for clarinet and strings, Op. 10 – 1895
• Southern Love Songs, Op. 12 – 1896
• String Quartet in D minor, Op. 13 – 1896 (lost)
• Legend (Concertstück), Op. 14
• Land of the Sun, Op. 15 – 1897
• Three Hiawatha Sketches for violin and piano, Op. 16 – 1897
• African Romances (P. L. Dunbar) Op. 17 – 1897
• Morning and Evening Service in F, Op. 18 – 1899
• Two Moorish Tone-Pictures, Op. 19 – 1897
• Gypsy Suite, Op. 20 – 1898
• Part Songs, Op. 21 – 1898
• Four Characteristic Waltzes, Op. 22 – 1899
• Valse-Caprice, Op. 23 – 1898
• In Memoriam, three rhapsodies for low voice and piano, Op. 24 – 1898
• Dream Lovers, Operatic Romance, Op. 25 – 1898
• The Gitanos, canata-operetta, Op. 26 – 1898
• Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 28 – ?1898 (pub. 1917)
• Three Songs, Op. 29 – 1898
• The Song of Hiawatha, Op. 30 ("Overture to The Song of Hiawatha", 1899; "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", 1898; "The Death of Minnehaha", 1899; "Hiawatha's Departure", 1900)
• Three Humoresques, Op. 31 – 1898
• Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 – 1898
• African Suite, Op. 35 – 1899
• Six Songs, Op. 37
• Three Silhouettes, Op. 38 – 1904
• Romance in G, Op. 39 – 1900
• Solemn Prelude, Op. 40 – 1899
• Scenes From An Everyday Romance, Op. 41 – 1900
• The Soul's Expression, four sonnets, Op. 42 – 1900
• The Blind Girl of Castél-Cuillé, Op. 43
• Idyll, Op. 44 – 1901
• Six American Lyrics, Op. 45 – 1903
• Concert Overture, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Op. 46 – 1901
• Hemo Dance, scherzo, Op. 47(1) – 1902
• Herod, incidental music, Op. 47(2) – 1901
• Meg Blane, Rhapsody of the Sea, Op. 48 – 1902
• Ullyses, incidental music, Op. 49 – 1902
• Three Song Poems, Op. 50 – 1904
• Four Novelletten, Op. 51(1?) – 1903
• Ethiopia Saluting the Colours, march, Op. 51(2?) – 1902
• The Atonement, sacred cantata, Op. 53 – 1903
• Five Choral Ballads, Op. 54 – 1904
• Moorish Dance, Op. 55 – 1904
• Three Cameos for Piano, Op. 56 – 1904
• Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57 – 1904
• Four African Dances, Op. 58 – 1904
• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Op. 59(1) – 1905
• Romance, Op. 59(2) – 1904
• Kubla Khan, rhapsody, Op. 61 – 1905
• Nero, incidental music, Op. 62 – 1906
• Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op. 63 – 1906
• Scenes de Ballet, Op. 64 – 1906
• Endymion's Dream, one-act opera, Op. 65 – 1910
• Forest Scenes, Op. 66 – 1907
• Part Songs, Op. 67 – 1905
• Bon-Bon Suite, Op. 68 – 1908
• Sea Drift, Op. 69 – 1908
• Faust, incidental music, Op. 70 – 1908
• Valse Suite: "Three fours", Op. 71- 1909
• Thelma, opera in three acts, Op. 72 – 1907-09
• Ballade in C minor, Op. 73 – 1909
• Forest of Wild Thyme, incidental music, Op. 74 (five numbers) – 1911–25
• Rhapsodic Dance, The Bamboula, Op. 75 – 1911
• A Tale of Old Japan, Op. 76 – 1911
• Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77 – 1911
• Three Impromptus, Op. 78 – 1911
• Othello, incidental music, Op. 79 – 1911
• Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 80 – 1912
• Two Songs for Baritone Voice, Op. 81 – 1913
• Hiawatha Ballet in five scenes, Op. 82 – 1920

Without opus number

• The Lee Shore
• Eulalie
• Variations for Cello and Piano