John Philip Sousa

Genres:	Easy Listening, Instrumental
Decades Active:	1980s, 1990s
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Biography

6 November 1854, Washington, DC, USA, d. 6 March 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. At the age of 13 Sousa joined the US Marine band of which his father (born in Spain of Portuguese parents) was a member. Here he mostly played the violin but in 1873 he left the band and resumed his studies, particularly of harmony and composition. In 1876 he joined a symphony orchestra in Philadelphia and also began to direct musical productions. In 1880 he returned to the US Marine band, this time as its director. After 12 years he formed his own band and embarked on a hugely successful career. Sousa employed first class musicians, among them the outstandingly gifted trombonist Arthur Pryor. In the late ninteenth century, touring bands, usually bright and brassy, played a mixture of European light classical music, newly-popular rags and other popular pieces. Sousa included all such items in his repertoire alongside cakewalks and music which bore the hallmarks of early jazz, but he...

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