Lawrence Gellert
Musical Artist
1898 – 1979
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Who was Lawrence Gellert?
Lawrence Gellert, born Laslow Grünbaum, September 14, 1898, in Budapest, Hungary, died 1979, was a music collector, who, in the 1920s and 1930s, amassed a significant collection of field-recorded African-American blues and spirituals and also claimed to have documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.
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- Born
- Sep 14, 1898
Budapest - Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Hungary
- Profession
- Died
- 1979
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on July 23, 2013
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