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William Billings

William Billings was the initial significant home-grown American composer. He was from an unhealthy family, had small formal education, and was self-taught in music apart from some feasible lessons from Boston choirmaster John Barry. In 1760 he apprenticed himself to a tanner and applied that build for a lot of …

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