Mark Fax
Mark Oakland Fax (born June 15, 1911 in Baltimore , † January 2, 1974 in Washington, DC ) was an American composer and music teacher .
Fax took lessons from William Llewellyn Wilson in high school . He then studied at Syracuse University (bachelor's degree in piano), at the Eastman School of Music (master's degree in composition in 1945) and at New York University . From 1947 he was professor of composition at Howard University . He became assistant to the dean and later dean of the art faculty and in 1972 director of the university's music school.
Fax composed organ and piano works, chamber music and orchestral works, vocal music and three operas. His most famous compositions are the Three Piano Peaces and Toccatina and the operas A Christmas Miracle and Till Victory is Won .
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- Aaron Horne: Brass music of black composers: a bibliography Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29826-4 , p. 94
- Pipedreams - African-American Organ Composers
- Biography ( memento of September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: Mason University - Program Zaki Ogoola, lyric soprano (PDF; 330 kB)
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| SURNAME | Fax, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fax, Mark Oakland (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1974 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |