He was referred to as the first composer from America. His main compositions, full of sentimentality always had a touch of Americanism in them, with themes of the American way of life, battlefields, slavery and even politics, because of that, his creations became involved in an era of political correctness in the 1950s and 60s, especially during the period of civil rights legislation.
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