John Nelson
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Nelson, 17th U.S. Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States from 1843 to 1845
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 123
Top works
- Colonial Classics You Can Build Today
- Yantlet Creek
- Pinaceæ
- Last Border
- Book of Poems by Geoffrey Rykken Davis
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-04-29
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 4,590
- Total plays
- 26,501
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John Wilton Nelson (born 6 December 1941, San Jose, Costa Rica, of American parents) is an American conductor. Nelson studied at Wheaton College, and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Morel . Nelson was Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1976 to 1987. Nelson made two commercial recordings with the Indianapolis Symphony, of music by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Charles Martin Loeffler, for the New World Records label. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Nels
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Nelson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Frederick
- Place of death
- Baltimore
- Father
- Roger Nelson
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Position held
- United States Secretary of State
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Political party
- Whig Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- John Nelson, bw photo portrait, Brady-Handy collection, circa 1855-1865.jpg
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
- Residence
- Maryland
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- date of birth
- 1791-06-01
- date of death
- 1860-01-18
- place of burial
- Green Mount Cemetery
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