William Henry Fry
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William Henry Fry was an American composer, music critic, and journalist. Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a p
Portrait photograph of William Henry Fry
Ann Childe Seguin
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Ann Childe Seguin was a British and American opera singer who was part of the Seguin Troupe in America. Her best known role was as the lead in The Bohemian Girl.
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…second run the following year. Leonora is also significant as it was the first grand opera written by an American composer. The opera was written for Ann Childe Seguin who took the title role when it opened. After a six-year sojourn in Europe (1846–52), where he served as foreign correspondent to the Philadelphia…
An engraving of Ann Childe Seguin