Description: (Composer)
Florence Price was an American classical composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher. She was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music and became active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is recognized as the first African-American woman to be acknowledged as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition performed by a major orchestra. Throughout her career, Price composed an impressive body of work, including symphonies, concertos, choral pieces, art songs, chamber music, and music for solo instruments.