Joseph Willard Roosevelt
Composer
1918 – 2008
Who was Joseph Willard Roosevelt?
Joseph Willard Roosevelt was an American pianist and composer.
Joseph was the second son of Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Wyatt Willard. His paternal grandparents were U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow. Roosevelt attended Groton School and Harvard University and studied piano with Nadia Boulanger in France.
He served in the Pacific during World War II as captain of the USS Greene,. Joseph was first married to Nancy Thayer, daughter of E. E. Cummings and Elaine Orr.
He taught music at The Hartt School, Mannes College of Music, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Longy School of Music.
Roosevelt's compositions are published by the American Composers Alliance and Merion Music.
Roosevelt died at the age of 90 on May 18, 2008.
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- Born
- Jan 16, 1918
Madrid - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Nancy Thayer Andrews
(1943 - )
- Nancy Thayer Andrews
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Dutch-American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Groton School
- Died
- May 18, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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