Strayhorn, Billy, Master Editions. Collection 1933-1966

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Strayhorn, Billy, Master Editions. Collection 1933-1966

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The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions Collection contains finale scores and parts generated by music editing software, derived directly from his handwritten manuscripts. There are also reprints of a signed photograph of Strayhorn.

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Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,

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Strayhorn, Billy, 1915-1967

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William "Billy" Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio on November 29, 1915. He spent part of his childhood in Hillsborough, North Carolina. His family eventually moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institution. At the age of 23, he submitted a musical composition titled "Something to Live For" to Duke Ellington, who subsequently recorded it with Strayhorn as the pianist. Strayhorn worked as the pianist in Mercer Ellington's orchestra for ...