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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Fax</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Mark Oakland Fax</b> (* <a href="15._Juni" title="15. Juni">15. Juni</a> <a href="1911" title="1911">1911</a> in <a href="Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>; † <a href="2._Januar" title="2. Januar">2. Januar</a> <a href="1974" title="1974">1974</a> in <a href="Washington%2C_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Komponist" title="Komponist">Komponist</a> und <a href="Musikp%C3%A4dagoge" class="mw-redirect" title="Musikpädagoge">Musikpädagoge</a>.
</p><p>Fax hatte in seiner Highschool-Zeit Unterricht bei William Llewellyn Wilson. Er studierte dann an der <a href="Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a> (Bachelor im Fach Klavier), an der <a href="Eastman_School_of_Music" title="Eastman School of Music">Eastman School of Music</a> (Master im Fach Komposition 1945) und an der <a href="New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>. Ab 1947 war er Professor für Komposition an der <a href="Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a>. Er wurde hier Assistent des Dekans und später Dekan der Kunstfakultät und 1972 Direktor der Musikschule der Universität.
</p><p>Fax komponierte Orgel- und Klavierwerke, Kammermusik und Orchesterwerke, Vokalmusik sowie drei Opern. Seine bekanntesten Kompositionen sind die <i>Three Piano Peaces and Toccatina</i> sowie die Opern <i>A Christmas Miracle</i> und <i>Till Victory is Won</i>.
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<ul><li>Aaron Horne: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=shJofk603zMC&pg=PA94&dq=1911+%22Mark+Fax%22&hl=de&ei=9AKFTcLnCsXIsga9ks2zAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=1911%20%22Mark%20Fax%22&f=false"><i>Brass music of black composers: a bibliography</i></a> Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29826-4, S. 94</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pipedreams.publicradio.org/articles/africanamericancomposers.shtml">Pipedreams – African-American Organ Composers</a></li>
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110902064325/http://music.gmu.edu/perfarts/archives/spring06/Ogoola,%20Zaki%205.16.pdf">Biographie</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 2. September 2011 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>) in: Mason University – Programmheft <i>Zaki Ogoola, lyric soprano</i> (PDF; 330 kB)</li></ul>
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