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Hiawatha Coleridge-Taylor

1900–1980

United Kingdom

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Hiawatha Bryan Coleridge-Taylor (15 October 1900 – 20 January 1980) was an English conductor, music publisher and doctor, the son of the composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Born in Croydon, he was named after the Longfellow poem that his father set as The Song of Hiawatha between 1898 and 1900, which had made him globally famous. His younger sister was Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

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