Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "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.Douglass probably studied in Europe, but settled in New York, and began performing widely in the 1870s."@en }
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- John_Thomas_Douglass comment "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.Douglass probably studied in Europe, but settled in New York, and began performing widely in the 1870s.".