Frederick Delius
}}Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; ; 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Double concertos for violin and cello / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Orchestral works / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Florida suite ; North Country sketches / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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The walk to the Paradise Garden ; Dance rhapsodies 1 & 2 ; In a summer garden ; North country sketches / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Requiem ; A mass of life / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Fennimore and Gerda / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Sea drift ; Songs of farewell ; Songs of sunset / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Florida suite ; North Country sketches ; On hearing the first cuckoo in spring ; Air and dance / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Fennimore und Gerda: zwei Episoden aus dem Leben Niels Lyhnes in elf Bildern nach dem Roman von J.P. Jacobsen = Fennimore and Gerda : two episodes from the life of Niels Lyhne in e... by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Margot la rouge: drama lyrique en 1 acte / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Appalachia: variations on an old slave song with final chorus / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Petite suite d'orchestre (no. 1)/ by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Norwegian bridal procession, Op. 19, no. 2: for medium orchestra : (1889, 1890) : Orchestration of Grieg's Norwegian bridal procession / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Poem of life and love: (1918- ) / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Florida: suite for orchestra (op. posth.) / by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Piano concerto in C minor/ by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Légendes (Sagen)/ by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Rhapsodiche Variationen/ by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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To be sung of a summer night on the water: [For mixed chorus a cappella]. by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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Caprice and elegy/ by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
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