Editing Conlon Nancarrow (section)

===Early years===
Nancarrow was born in [[Texarkana, Arkansas]]. He played [[trumpet]] in a [[jazz]] band in his youth before studying music first in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], and later in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], with [[Roger Sessions]], [[Walter Piston]] and [[Nicolas Slonimsky]].<ref name="Kozinn">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/12/arts/conlon-nancarrow-dies-at-84-composed-for-the-player-piano.html |title=Conlon Nancarrow Dies at 84; Composed for the Player Piano |first=Allan |last=Kozinn |newspaper=New York Times |date=12 August 1997 |access-date=23 October 2013}}</ref> He met [[Arnold Schoenberg]] during that composer's brief stay in Boston in 1933.<ref>Gann, Kyle (2006). ''The Music of Conlon Nancarrow'', p.38. {{ISBN|978-0521028073}}.</ref>

In Boston, Nancarrow joined the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]. When the [[Spanish Civil War]] broke out, he traveled to Spain to join the [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade]] in fighting against [[Francisco Franco]]. He was interned by the French at the [[Gurs internment camp]] in 1939.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magnified musically: Obscure Holocaust prison camp inspires Stanford's artist-in-residence|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61773/magnified-musically-obscure-holocaust-prison-camp-inspires-stanfords-artist/|publisher=Jweekly|access-date=14 May 2011|first=Janet Silver| last=Ghent|newspaper=J |date=12 May 2011}}</ref><ref name="hocker">{{cite web|last=Hocker|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology: Nancarrows Life and Work*1912–1997|url=http://www.nancarrow.de/chronology.htm|access-date=14 May 2011}}</ref> Upon his return to the United States in 1939, he learned that his Brigade colleagues were finding it difficult to renew their U.S. [[passport]]s. After spending some time in [[New York City]], Nancarrow moved in 1940 to Mexico, in order to escape similar harassment.<ref name="Kozinn" />

He visited the United States briefly in 1947 and became a Mexican citizen in 1956.<ref name="Kozinn" /><ref name="hocker" /> His next appearance in the U.S. was in San Francisco for the [[New Music America]] festival in 1981. He traveled regularly in the following years<ref name="hocker" /> and lived in the current Casa Estudio Conlon Nancarrow (designed by [[Juan O'Gorman]]) at Las Águilas, [[Mexico City]], until his death at 84. He was friends with some Mexican composers but was largely unknown in the local music establishment.