1945–1981
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Mary Europe
1885–1947
United States
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Mary Loraine Europe was an American pianist, organist, and music educator who rose to prominence musically during the early 1900s as a performer with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. She was African-American and was the younger sister of ragtime composer and World War I-era bandleader James Reese Europe (1880—1919).
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