Suite for Violin and Piano

• Still composed his suite for violin and piano in 1943.¹

Movements 

1. African Dancer 
2. Mother and Child 
3. Gamin²

• This suite was inspired by three works by African-American sculptors.³
  • “African Dancer” was inspired by a 1933 sculpture of the same name by Richmond Barthé. 
  • “Mother and Child” was inspired by Forever Free, 1933 a sculpture by Sargent Johnson. 
  • “Gamin” was inspired by a 1929 sculpture of the same name by Augusta Savage. 

1. ayle Murchison and Catherine Parsons Smith, “Still, William Grant,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 16, 2022, https://oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000026776.  
2. “Works for Solo Instrument and Piano,” William Grant Still Music, accessed February 16, 2022, http://www.williamgrantstillmusic.com/WorksforSoloInstrumentsandPiano.htm. 
3. Margaret Rose Vendryes, Barthé: A Life in Sculpture (United States: University of Mississippi Press, 2008), 63.