Fantasie Nègre de Florence B. Price

Fantasie Nègre: Four Fantasies for Piano

Florence B. Price

Samantha Ege

en Limba Engleză Sheet music – 6 aug 2026

An historic addition to the advanced keyboard repertoire, this edition presents Florence B. Price's Four Fantasies for Piano in their entirety for the first time, honouring the composer's development of the Fantasie Nègre genre into a collective body of works. This critical edition foregrounds Price's original, unrevised manuscripts, most notably in the case of No. 4, and presents Ege's meticulous reconstruction of the incomplete, presumed lost, third Fantasie. It also serves as a performing edition, drawing on Ege's significant performance history with this work to include fingerings, redistributions of notes between hands, and additional dynamic and tempo markings, as well as detailed performance notes. This is a spectacular set of virtuosic pieces that showcases Price's ability to blend African American folk idioms and traditional forms with her own unique musical language.

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Florence Beatrice Price was born in 1888 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and began piano lessons at the age of three with her mother. Price studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, majoring in organ performance and piano pedagogy as well as studying composition. She returned to the South after her studies, and composition formed part of her busy life as a music teacher, wife, and mother. After moving to Chicago in 1927, Price became part of a vibrant community of Black classical musicians, many of whom were women. Following the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's performance of her Symphony no. 1 in E minor in 1933, Price emerged as the most acclaimed Black female symphonist of her time. Her Spiritual arrangements were brought to national attention through collaborations with the contralto Marian Anderson, and Price's compositional output also features numerous solo piano compositions, alongside songs, chamber music, and choral works.Dr Samantha Ege is an author, pianist, and music historian. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of York and a BA in Music from the University of Bristol. She has held research positions at the University of Southampton and was previously the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her research on the Black Chicago Renaissance and on Black women in classical music has been widely published and has earned her several prestigious awards. As a concert pianist, Ege has performed across the UK, Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia. Her world premiere recording of Florence B. Price's Four Fantasies in 2021 were hailed by the New York Times as 'triumphs indeed'.