R. Nathaniel Dett was a writer, teacher, choral director and pianist. Although he was relatively unknown, he published more than 200 works and dedicated his life to preserving Negro spirituals. Dett was very well educated; In 1908, he became the first African American to graduate from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.
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