Bob Draper wrote:

>However, there is a definately true story that a black slave living
>in Cornwall, England in the late 18th century wrote excellent music.
>Apparently, he was a virtuoso violinist as well.  I think some of the
>fellow's music survives but much has been lost.  Can anyone supply a
>name for him?

George Pogreen Bridgetower, George IV's first violinist, who performed the
premier of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata was a mulatto, born in Biala, Poland
in 1779.

Walter Meyer