William Billings

William Billings

A leather tanner with a feeble body, but a powerful musical voice. 

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From the Card:

  • You are blind in one eye, have a disabled arm, and one of your legs is shorter than the other. You are also addicted to snuff.
  • Despite having a trade, you are poor and uneducated.
  • You are considered to be the first American composer. Despite your lack of formal training, you write and teach music in schools near Boston.
  • Your music is patriotic and you proudly refuse to follow established compositional rules.
  • Your tune, Chester, is the unofficial national anthem of the early United States.

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