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William Grant Still

American composer.

Born May 11th, 1895 in Mississippi, Woodville. [ref]

Died December 3rd, 1978 at 83 years old in Los Angeles (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
composer, conductor, film score composer, oboist

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel