Rudolph Dunbar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolph Dunbar

American conductor

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1907

Place of Birth: Nabacalis, Guyana

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1988

Profession: composer, conductor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Rudolph Dunbar (26 November 1907 – 10 June 1988) was a Guyanese conductor, clarinetist, and composer, as well as being a jazz musician of note in the 1920s.
Leaving British Guiana at the age of 20, he had settled in England by 1931, and subsequently worked in other parts of Europe but lived most of his later years in London.
Among numerous "firsts", he was the first black man to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1942), the first black man to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic (1945) and the first black man to conduct orchestras in Poland (1959) and Russia (1964).
Dunbar also worked as a journalist and a war correspondent.