Ueta Solomona
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Ueta Solomona
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Ueta Mata’utia Pene Solomona OS was a Samoan composer, musician, and music educator. He was the first Samoan awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States, and the composer of the first Samoan opera, Jephathah. Ueta grew up in Apia and was educated at the Marist Brothers primary school. He learned to play the piano before beginning primary school, and began composing hymns and music for brass bands before he was 20. In 1959 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study music at the Stat
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Samoan composer, musician, and music educator (1935–2018)
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2024-01-09T22:20:57Z
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