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Composer, pianist, teacher, poet, and writer, Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) is regarded as one of the most important musicians in American history, lauded in his lifetime as the first American composer to fuse African American folk idioms with the European art music tradition. On his debut performance release, pianist Clipper Erickson presents the first complete collection of Dett's piano works.