Florence Price: American Composer

Florence Price's life is usually summed up by a single accomplishment—as the first African American female composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra in the United States. In fact, she composed over three hundred compositions, including four symphonies, two violin concertos, a piano concerto, piano and organ solos, string quartets, choral works, and numerous art songs made famous by contralto Marian Anderson.

Florence Price, born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1887, began her s...