Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851
Birthday: September 15
Death: September 14
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
source: "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.
topic: Art, People, Ignorant, Elevating