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The Afro-British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor won fame with his musical "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", staged 200 times in the U.K. alone. Coleridge-Taylor was a Pan-Africanist. He worked long hours but had difficulty supporting his family as a conductor and music professor. He died at 37 of pneumonia worsened by exhaustion. His legacy includes songs, musicals, chamber music and orchestral works.
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