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I Will Sing of Thy Power (Sullivan, Arthur) I Would I Were a King (Sullivan, Arthur) L'île enchantée (Sullivan, Arthur) Imperial March (Sullivan, Arthur) In Memoriam (Sullivan, Arthur) Iolanthe (Sullivan, Arthur) It came upon the midnight clear (Sullivan, Arthur) It was a' for our rightfu' King (Sullivan, Arthur)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 - 22 November 1900) was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan composed 23 operas, 13 major ...
Apr 13, 2021 · November 2018 saw the release of the first ever professional recording of Arthur Sullivan’s oratorio, The Light of The World, based on Biblical texts and focused on the life and teaching of Jesus. The critical reaction to this work, which had been largely ignored and rarely performed for over 140 years, was extraordinary.
ARTHUR SULLIVAN travels abroad. He was essentially the most broad-minded musician in perhaps the most narrow and unoriginal school of thought in musical history. It is a feature of almost all music of the Victorian era, and indeed of the nineteenth century generally, that the melodies are built up on the harmony. Sullivan's melodies, how-
The Golden Legend. (cantata) The Golden Legend is an 1886 cantata by Arthur Sullivan with libretto by Joseph Bennett, based on the 1851 poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The piece premiered at the triennial Leeds Music Festival. At least 17 performances of the cantata were given in Britain during the first year after its ...
Dec 20, 2018 · Premiered in Birmingham in 1873 (shortly before the composer began the long-term collaboration with WS Gilbert which would make him a household name), Arthur Sullivan’s The Light of the World drew favourable comparisons with Messiah, the Bach Passions and Mendelssohn’s unfinished Christus from first-generation reviewers for its ambitious and imaginative treatment of episodes from the life ...
