DE BOSE, TOURGEE

DE BOSE, TOURGEE. College professor/Concert pianist (20 August 1893 in Gainesville, Florida; 10 July 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana). He studied piano as a child. He obtained his musical education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (B.A., 1913), and at the Oberlin School of Music in Ohio (1916). He studied piano privately with Carl Friedberg and later in Paris, France, at Alfred Cortot's Ecole normale de musique. During the 1920s he was active in New York, where he...