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  Arthur Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sullivan's orchestra was typical of any other vaudeville orchestra of that era: 2 flutes (+piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trombones, timpani, percussion, strings.
In 1883, Sullivan was knighted by Queen Victoria.
Sullivan, who had suffered from ill health throughout his life, succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 58 at his house in London on November 22, 1900.
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 Arthur Percy Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Percy Sullivan (1896 - 1937) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Arthur Percy Sullivan was born on 27 November 1896 at Crystal Brook, South Australia.
Sullivan was 22 years old, and a Corporal in the 45th Bn., The Royal Fusiliers, British Army during the North Russia Relief Force when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
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 The Mikado, Arthur Seymour Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born in London on 13 May 1842.
Arthur Sullivan's brother Frederic, according to Leslie Ayre, "was the original Apollo in Thespis and, as a member of the Dolaro company, was in the cast of La Perichole at the Royalty Theatre when it was decided to add Trial by Jury to the bill.
Sullivan orchestrated the score once the performers were cast and their particular voices were known.
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 Arthur_Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (May 13, 1842–November 22, 1900) was a British composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist William S. Gilbert.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, opened in the Opéra Comique, London in 1881 and was transferred to the specially-built Savoy Theatre later the same year.
Sullivan, who had suffered from ill health throughout his life, succumbed to pneumonia at his house in London on November 22, 1900.
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 Arthur Sullivan Online Research :: Information about Arthur Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This last was much pirated in America, and in 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan crossed the Atlantic to protect their copyrights, producing The Pirates of Penzance in New York City.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience (operetta), opened in the Opera Comique, London, in 1881 and was transferred to the specially built Savoy Theatre later the same year.
The music which is used for the ballet is exclusively by Arthur Sullivan, from various Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and also from Arthur Sullivan's overture "Di Ballo", as well as from the comic opera " Cox and Box " (which Arthur Sullivan wrote in collaboration with Francis Burnand).
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 BBC - h2g2 - Sir Arthur Sullivan - Composer - A620975
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900) was one of the leading composers of the Victorian age.
Arthur Sullivan was born on May 13, 1842, the son of a bandmaster.
During Sullivan's three years in the choir he composed a number of anthems and songs, one of which was published in 1855.
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 Learning Center | NYC Opera
Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born in Lambeth, London in 1842.
At 14, Sullivan was the youngest recipient of the Mendelssohn Scholarship, and he went on to receive numerous awards to various prestigious academies and conservatories.
Sullivan spent the next ten years as a composer, professor of music, and organist, and he was widely considered the foremost composer of his day.
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 Arthur Sullivan's Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sullivan composed his own anthem when he was 8 years old.
Sullivan's first venture into comic opera was in 1867, with writer F.C. Brunand.
In the period from 1871 to 1896, Sullivan collaborated with W. Gilbert on fourteen comic operas.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Arthur Sullivan, 87; doctor practiced medicine, good will
Sullivan was born at home in Braintree, the youngest of five children and the only son of Dr. Cornelius and Ella (Cunningham) Sullivan.
Arthur Sullivan graduated from Braintree High School in 1935, from Boston College in 1939, and from Tufts Medical School in 1943.
Sullivan remained an avid golfer and a member of the Wollaston Golf Club; he was also a good bridge player and a dedicated Boston College football fan.
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 Arthur Sullivan : Sir Arthur Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Arthur S. Sullivan (May 13, 1842 - November 22, 1900) was a British composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist William S. Gilbert.
Sullivan's father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Sullivan had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band.
Sullivan was unhappy with the results and destroyed the score following the shows run.
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 The Musical Times: Arthur Sullivan 1842-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His father demurred, till one day Arthur pathetically exclaimed: ‘Father, Purcell was a Chapel Royal boy.’ Father and son sought the advice of Sir George Smart, who gave them the address of the of the Rev. Thomas Helmore, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal.
Sullivan had such a shock of curly hair that a nigger wig was quite in the nature of a superfluity.
In this connection, although somewhat in the nature of a digression, we are able to quote from a letter written by Sullivan to a friendly critic on some ‘5ths’ she had discovered in one of his compositions.
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 Sullivan Discography: Sullivan's Incidental Music
Sullivan's incidental music to The Merry Wives of Windsor premiered one week short of three years later than Thespis, at the same theater, and commissioned by the same impressario, John Hollinshead.
Sullivan's part in the proceedings received favorable reviews, but it was not enough to save a play in which his role was merely incidental.
Sullivan's last essay in the genre of incidental music was undoubtedly inspired by the success of his Macbeth music for Henry Irving seven years earlier.
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 Arthur Sullivan - Wikipedia
Arthur Sullivan studierte - nachdem er erfolgreich (unter anderem als Vorsänger) als Chorknabe an der Chapel Royal wirkte - ab 1856 an der "Royal Academy of Music" in London sowie von 1858 bis 1861 am Konservatorium in Leipzig.
Berühmt wurde Sullivan vor allem durch die 1871 begonnene und bis 1896 andauernde erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit dem Librettisten William Schwenck Gilbert, mit dem er 14 komische Opern (bzw.
Literatur von und über Arthur Sullivan im Katalog der DDB
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 Biography of Sir Arthur Sullivan
Though the name Arthur Sullivan may not be immediately recognized, when paired with the name of his counterpart and working companion, W. Gilbert, there are few throughout the world who would not know of him.
On June 24, 1842, Arthur Sullivan was born in South London.
Sullivan's father was a band conductor and recognized his young son's talent in music.
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 Sir Arthur Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Thomson asserts that Sullivan, with the likes of Sterndale Bennet, Parry, Stanford, and Mackenzie, is representative of the period's emerging "particularly English school of music," which paralleled the renewed power of art and art criticism during the mid-Victorian era (Penguin's England in the Nineteenth Century, 117).
Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, perhaps more than any other vessel, have carried a sense of Victorian attitudes through the twentieth century, and are invaluable as a source of insight into both middle class entertainment of the period and the modes of political and social satire that such popular amusement adopted.
There is no question that the anthemic nature of Sullivan's compositions for Gilbert carried satire to the widest possible audience, as songs gently mocking luminaries from Oscar Wilde to Disraeli and Gladstone echoed through opera houses, school theaters, and local pubs.
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 william schwenck gilbert, arthur seymour sullivan, librettists, composers, bios, biografias, libretistas, compositores, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) collaborated for a quarter of a century, and their collaboration yielded 14 comic operas.
The London-born Sullivan’s father was a military bandmaster (at the Royal Military College) and teacher.
Since their copyright expired, Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas have been revived regularly, both by opera companies and on the commercial stage, and of the many productions of The Mikado, Jonathan Miller’s version has been extremely successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Arthur Sullivan
It is a tragic irony that Sullivan and some of his friends felt that the success of the operettas was beneath the dignity of the dir.
By then, Sullivan's health was beginning to rebel against the strain he put on it.
In them Sullivan's melodic felicity, light-fingered orchestration, and truly astonishing gift for pastiche and parody (Handel, Verdi, Donizetti, Wagner—all are paid the compliment of witty imitation) found their proper outlet and gave England a unique type of mus.
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 Gilbert & Sullivan Bio-Bibliography
By contrast Sullivan was patient and charming, the supreme Establishment figure of late Victorian England.
Gilbert and Sullivan revolutionized the theatre world, and to this day that world is a happier place because of their innovations.
Sullivan was convinced that his real genius was expressed by his prestigious music.
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 Arthur Seymour Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arthur Sullivan's brother Frederic, according to Leslie Ayre,
was the original Apollo in [Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration] Thespis and, as a member of the Dolaro company, was in the cast of La Perichole at the Royalty Theatre when it was decided to add [their second collaboration] Trial by Jury to the bill.
Sir George Grove, upon Sullivan's 1883 knighthood: "Surely the time has come when so able and experienced a master of voice, orchestra, and state effect — master too of so much genuine sentiment — may apply his gifts to a serious opera on some subject of abiding human or natural interest" (qtd in Taylor).
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 Sir Arthur Sullivan: The Lost Chord (2002)
The disc is attractively presented in a box unlike the familiar "jewel box": the back part, which holds the CD, is plastic; the front is 3-fold glossy card on which are printed the notes and illustrations.
The worst is probably the statement that "The Lost Chord" was composed after Frederic Sullivan's death, whereas we now know it was completed prior to it.
The disc is available from the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society's Sales Officer, Peter Gibbons — GBP 12 in UK; GBP 14 / $22 overseas (airmail).
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 Biography for: Arthur Seymour Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was a composer and conductor of choral settings, orchestral works and operetta.
Sullivan is perhaps best known for his partnership with W. Gilbert on the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
In Patience (1881), Gilbert and Sullivan's satire on the æsthetic movement the actor George Grossmith impersonated JW in the character of Bunthorne.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Sull_A.htm   (121 words)

  
 Sources of Gilbert & Sullivan Books, Recordings, and Scores
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - We have over 2,000 MIDI files, located throughout the Archive, and a growing number of downloadable vocal scores, many of which are very difficult to find in printed form.
Sir Arthur Sullivan Society — they have for sale online a number of recordings of Sullivan's music as well as librettos and their own publications on Sullivan and Gilbert and Sullivan topics.
Two songs have Sir Arthur Sullivan's original music, and the rest of the score was recently completed by Quade Winter.
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 MIDI Files of Other Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In addition to the operas which he wrote in partnership with William S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote a number of other musical works during his long career.
This is one of the rare Gilbert and Sullivan songs that is not a part of their 14 operettas.
Sullivan wrote it in 1861 when he was a student in Leipzig.
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 Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, 1842–1900, English composer, famous for a series of brilliant comic operas written in collaboration with the librettist W. Gilbert
Sullivan became organist at St. Michael's, London, in 1861 and professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1866.
Sullivan brought to Gilbert's witty lyrics a wealth of melodic invention and orchestral ingenuity, creating light operas that have charmed audiences for many generations.
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 Sullivan, Sir Arthur (1842 - 1900)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The national institution that Gilbert and Sullivan have become has drawn attention away from Sullivan's more serious work.
Operettas with words by Gilbert range from Trial by Jury in 1875 to The Gondoliers in 1889, followed in 1893 by Utopia Limited and, in 1896, by the lesser known The Grand Duke.
HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, with its satire on Oscar Wilde, the political satire Iolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore and The Yeomen of the Guard, continue to bear witness to the deft and witty music of Sullivan and the comic verbal talents of Gilbert.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Ballads,songs and speeches
And ministers have been described as "gondoliers" for their habit of refusing to admit to uncertainty, recalling the opera The Gondoliers, which spoke of a tale free from "all possible doubt whatever".
The majority of the Savoy Operas, as Gilbert and Sullivan's main works are known, set out specifically to mock the politics and politicians of the day.
It is ironic that Gilbert and Sullivan should be so beloved of the Establishment even as their songs are used against it.
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 Index of Sir Arthur Sullivan's Hymns
From 1861 to 1872, Arthur Sullivan held the post of organist at two of London's fashionable churches: St. Michael's, Chester Square, Pimlico and St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, Kensington.
For some, Sullivan's hymn tunes represent the epitomy of Victorian mawkishness and sentimentality, and it must be admitted that several of them provide ammunition for those who would argue that Sullivan turned to hymn tune writing not from any deep religious conviction but simply as a way of making money.
In compiling this collection, I have included all Sullivan's known original tunes and a selection of his best known harmonizations and arrangements.I have, wherever possible associated the tunes with their original words.
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 Topsy-Turvy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His partner, Arthur Sullivan, came up with memorably inventive melodies to match and their joint output between 1877 and 1896 of fourteen operettas etched their names permanently in the history of musical theater.
The key to the best Gilbert and Sullivan works is the use of deceptively frothy, charming lightness combined with imaginative, sometimes silly, fantasy, while, at the same time, retaining intelligence, perceptive observation, and a keen satirical edge.
The scenes in the film from Princess Ida tend to confirm that it was, indeed, a less than wonderful work; there's no way of knowing whether Leigh deliberately made it sound even worse than it might be for the sake of his plot, but it isn't much fun to watch.
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 AbsoluteFacts.nl - Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
De Engelse componist Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) werd geboren in Londen.
Arthur Sullivan maakte in samenwerking met de schrijver W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) vele operettes, die bekend werden als de Savoy-opera's.
Sullivan hield zich niet louter bezig met deze populaire theaterproducties.
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 Arthur SULLIVAN - Patience [RW]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arthur Sullivan was one of Britain’s important composers of the Victorian age.
With witty lyrics by W.S. Gilbert, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas have stood the test of time and are still popular today [type 'Gilbert and Sullivan' in your search engine to find all sites and links].
The partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan was initiated by the enterprising theatre manager, Richard D'Oyly Carte.
www.theclassicalsite.com /classrev/2003/Oct03/Sullivan_Patience.htm   (928 words)

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