Alexander Juhan

Alexander Juhan (1765–1845){{cite book|last1=Hall|first1=Charles J.|title=Chronology of Western Classical Music |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415942164 |page=357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NX1Wx5-TULIC&pg=PA357 |language=en}} was a violinist, composer, and conductor. He was one of the first American composers of the United States.{{cite web |last1=Voisey |first1=Robert |title=American Composer Timeline |url=http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm| website=Vox Novus |accessdate=August 15, 2017}}

Thought to have been born in Charleston, South Carolina,{{cite book|title=The International Library of Music for Home and Studio: History of music. Biographical sketches. Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgQ64mzuV3YC|year=1948|publisher=University Society|page=671}} Juhan moved to Philadelphia in 1783{{cite web |title=University of the Arts Music Library Reading Room Notes No. 3 (2000-01) |url=http://library.uarts.edu/mlrrn/mlrrn3.html |website=University of Arts Music Library |accessdate=August 15, 2017}} where he worked with Henri Capron, Alexander Reinagle, and William Brown in Philadelphia{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Composers and Music Publishers: Henri Capron |url=http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/capron.html |website=Penn Library Department of Special Collections: Keffer Collection of Sheet Music |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |accessdate=August 15, 2017}} from 1786 to 1794.{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Composers: Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) |url=http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/reinagle.html |website=Penn Library Department of Special Collections: Keffer Collection of Sheet Music |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |accessdate=August 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125102451/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/reinagle.html |archive-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=dead }}