Conlon Nancarrow

✶October 27, 1912

†August 10, 1997

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About their life

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ability. He lived most of his life in relative isolation and did not become widely known until the 1980s.

American-Mexican composer

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Biography from the article Conlon Nancarrow on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.