John Thomas Douglass
(1847-1886)
American musician
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John Thomas Douglass (1847–1886) was an accomplished American violinist who composed Virginia's Ball, which is the first known opera written by an African American, copyrighted in 1868. It was performed at least once, but is now lost. Virginia's Ball was a three-act opera, premiered in 1868 in New York, at the Stuyvesant Institute on Broadway.
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1847
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1886 (aged 38)
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