Edmond Dédé - Who was Edmond Dédé? | Creole Classical Musician and Composer Edmond Dede Biography.

Edmond Dédé - Who was Edmond Dede? | Creole Classical Musician and Composer Edmond Dédé Biography | Edmond Dédé Google Doodle | Edmond Dédé History | Edmond Dédé Music. Google Doodle celebrates Creole classical musician and composer Edmond Dédé. The melody to his 1851 composition “Mon Pauvre Cœur” (My Poor Heart) remains one of the oldest surviving pieces of sheet music by a Black Creole composer in New Orleans. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. on this day in 1827, Dédé picked up the clarinet from his father, a bandmaster in a local military band. He switched to the violin, which soon became Dédé’s instrument of choice as he developed into a musical prodigy. Apprenticing under prominent New Orleans musicians, Dédé left home for Mexico to escape the increasing racial prejudice in the American South. He returned home in 1851 and published “Mon Pauvre Cœur.” He worked briefly to save money befor