| Conlon Nancarrow  AKA Samuel Conlon Nancarrow
Born: 27-Oct-1912
Birthplace: Texarkana, AR
Died: 10-Aug-1997
Location of death: Mexico City, Mexico
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Composer Nationality: Mexico
Executive summary: Studies for Player Piano Military service: Ambulance driver, Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Spanish Civil War, 1937-39) Father: Samuel Charles Nancarrow (mayor of Texarkana 1925-30, d. 1931)
Mother: Myra Brady
Brother: Charles Nancarrow (b. 1915)
Wife: Helen Rigby (singer, b. 1916, m. 1932, div. 1937)
Wife: Annette Margolis (assistant to Diego Rivera, m. 1948, div. 1953)
Wife: Yoko Segiura (archaeologist, m. 1970, one son)
Son: David Makoto (b. 1971)
University: Cincinnati College Conservatory (1929-32)
Communist Party USA 1934
Naturalized Mexican Citizen 1955
MacArthur Fellowship 1982
Stroke 1990
Risk Factors: Depression
Is the subject of books:
The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, 1995, BY: Kyle Gann
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