What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 composer lived and died here Recorded plaque organisation: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centenary Festival, Nubian Jak Community Trust.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer of mixed English and Sierra Leonean heritage, renowned for his choral and orchestral works, particularly "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"; he significantly contributed to classical music while facing racial barriers in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
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