The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Da Costa, Noel, 1929-2002

LC control no.n 84181448
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingDa Costa, Noel, 1929-2002
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Costa, Noel da, 1929-2002
Associated countryNigeria Jamaica United States
Birth date1929-12-24
Death date2002-04-29
Place of birthLagos (Nigeria)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityComposition (Music)
AffiliationMason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)
Profession or occupationComposers University and college faculty members
Found inHis Four preludes for trombone and piano [SR] p1984: label (Noel Da Costa) container (Da Costa; b. 1929, Lagos, Nigeria; Assoc. Prof. of music at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.)
Int. dict. of Black composers, 1999 (Da Costa, Noel G.; b. Dec. 24, 1929, Lagos, Nigeria; brought to U.S. at age 11)
New York Times, May 20, 2002 (Noel Da Costa, 82, composer, professor; d. Apr. 29, 2002, Manhattan; b. Nigeria)
African-American organ music anthology. Vol. 8, 2018: page 5 (Noel Da Costa; born in Lagos; moved to Jamaica, where he lived until age 11, at which time he came to the United States)