Will Marion Cook, American violinist and composer (died 1944)

Will Marion Cook

American composer and violinist (1869–1944)

William Mercer Cook, better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer, pianist, orchestrator, lyricist, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1919 he took his New York Syncopated Orchestra to England for a command performance…