Claudio S. Grafulla was a composer in the United States during the 19th Century, most noted for martial music for regimental bands during the early days of the American Civil War.
Grafulla was born in 1812 on Minorca, an island off the coast of Spain that was occupied by the British after the Napoleonic wars. At the age of 28, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a French horn player in Napier Lothian's New York Brass Band in New York City. This band was attached to the 7th Regimen...
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