Mark Fax

Mark Oakland Fax ( born June 15, 1911 in Baltimore, † January 2, 1974 in Washington, DC) was an American composer and music educator.

Fax had in his high school years teaching at William Llewellyn Wilson. He then studied at Syracuse University ( BA in piano), at the Eastman School of Music (Master in Composition 1945) and at New York University. From 1947 he was professor of composition at Howard University. He was assistant to the dean here and later Dean of the Faculty of Arts and in 1972 director of the Music School of the University.

Fax composed for organ and piano works, chamber music and orchestral works, vocal music, and three operas. His best-known compositions are the Three Piano Peaces and Toccatina and the opera A Christmas Miracle and Till Victory is Won.

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  • Aaron Horne: Brass music of black composers: a bibliography Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29826-4, p 94
  • Pipedreams - African-American Organ Composers
  • American composer
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 1974
  • Man
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