Henry Fillmore

Henry Fillmore ( born December 3, 1881 in Cincinnati, † December 7, 1956 in Miami ) was an American composer, trombonist and conductor.

Fillmore was born as the eldest of five children of a music publisher. He sang as a child in the church choir, played guitar, violin and flute and piano a little, but enthusiastic soon for the trumpet, which was rejected by his father as an instrument of street musicians. After the school and the junior college visit, he studied for a short time trombone with Charles Kohlman and composition with John Broekhoven at Cincinnati Conservatory.

Participation in the business of his father, he finished in 1905 after a falling out with this. He married a show dancer and was hired as a musician and conductor from the Lemon Brothers Circus. In 1910 he returned to the publisher of his father and operated the side as a trombone teacher and musician. From 1921 to 1926 he headed the Syrian Temple Shrine band, he founded his own, extremely successful band. He was known as a showman and Supreme Father of the " Trombone Smear "; under " Trombone Smers " was understood ragtime compositions for trombone. The Rag Lassus Trombone took John Philip Sousa and his band in his firm repertoire. Due to health problems he moved in 1938 to Miami back, but the band still in charge of the University of Miami, worked as a guest conductor and music competitions organized.

Fillmore was a prolific composer. Besides his own works 250 total, including 113 marches he composed around 750 arrangements and wrote textbooks and teaching materials for young musicians. He published his works under the name Harold Bennett, Al Hayes, Will Huff, Gus Beans, Ray Hall, Harry Hartley and Henrietta Moore.

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• Man
• Born in 1881
• Died in 1956
• American composer
• Trombonist
• Bandleader