Career
In the 1840s he was among the first black men to study music abroad, at the Paris Conservatory. McCarty did not publish as widely as many of his fellow Creole composers of the era, but he was well known for performing and organizing other musicians, and playing a role in Reconstruction-era politics. Simmonds, Kevin (2003).
Taking His Rightful Place: A of Black Creole New Orleanian Victor Eugene McCarty (1820-1881) (Master of Arts in Music thesis).
Middle Tennessee State University.
