William Brown was an 18th-century American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, flutist, and music publisher, active in Philadelphia and New York. He is known for his work ''Three Rondos for the Pianoforte or Harpsichord'' (1787), one of the earliest pieces of printed secular music for keyboards, and the first keyboard music to be published in the United States.

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