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Delius, photographed in 1907
Frederick Theodore Albert DeliusCH (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; /ˈdiːliəs/; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.
Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.
Delius's first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s. In Delius's native Britain, his music did not make regular appearances in concert programmes until 1907, after Thomas Beecham took it up. Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 (he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of the composer's works. After 1918, Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris. He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby.
The lyricism in Delius's early compositions reflected the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Grieg and Wagner. As his skills matured, he developed a style uniquely his own, characterised by his individual orchestration and his uses of chromatic harmony. Delius's music has been only intermittently popular, and often subject to critical attacks. The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composer's life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius CH (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; /ˈdiːliəs/; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford...
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known as Jelka Delius (30 December 1868 – 28 May 1935), was a German painter, best known as the wife of the English composer FrederickDelius. She was born...
formed an interest in Delius that developed into a near-obsession. He also found a kindred spirit in an Eton music teacher and Delius advocate, the cellist...
amanuensis in assisting the blind and paralysed composer FrederickDelius in writing down the notes that Delius dictated. In ancient Rome, an amanuensis (Latin...
single includes two B-sides, "Delius" and "Passing Through Air." "Delius" is Bush's tribute to English composer FrederickDelius. The subtitle, "Song of Summer...
Strauss's Elektra, Salome and Der Rosenkavalier and three operas by FrederickDelius. Together with his younger colleague Malcolm Sargent, Beecham founded...
organist and teacher who is best known for being FrederickDelius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius realise a number of works that would not otherwise...
is a tone poem composed in 1912 by FrederickDelius. Together with Summer Night on the River it is one of Delius's Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The...
performances of several important English works, especially those of FrederickDelius, and made the first or standard recordings of others, particularly...
significant figures in European music, forming important friendships with FrederickDelius and Edvard Grieg. He became a champion of Nordic music and culture...
arrangement by Grainger and a subsequent set of orchestral variations by FrederickDelius. The song, which is listed as Roud 1083, has only been collected from...
and Gustav Holst. All of them had a predilection for the music of FrederickDelius, although there remains some doubt as to when the individual members...
became friendly with FrederickDelius, who was living in Paris at the time, and Schmitt prepared vocal scores for four of Delius's operas: Irmelin, The...
the album, its centrepiece, "River Man", which echoed the tone of FrederickDelius, was orchestrated by the veteran composer Harry Robertson. Post-production...
orchestral composition "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" by FrederickDelius imitates sounds of the cuckoo. The greater roadrunner, a cuckoo, is...
Benjamin Britten; Rhoda Coghill; David Conte; Ronald Corp; George Crumb; FrederickDelius; Howard Hanson; Karl Amadeus Hartmann; Hans Werner Henze; Bernard Herrmann;Jennifer...
which portrays the last six years of the life of English composer FrederickDelius, when Eric Fenby acted as his amanuensis. Fenby is mentioned in the...
This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems. En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903) Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem...
composer FrederickDelius, based on the German text of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885). In 1898, Delius had written...
composers linked to Impressionism include Lili Boulanger, Isaac Albéniz, FrederickDelius, Paul Dukas, Alexander Scriabin, Manuel de Falla, John Alden Carpenter...
composers associated with the school were Ralph Vaughan Williams, FrederickDelius and Gustav Holst, with other notable figures including George Butterworth...
exponent of the works of composer FrederickDelius throughout her career, and was the artistic director of "Delius Inspired", an eight-day festival held...
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