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FREDERICK DELIUS

29thJanuary 1862 --- 10thJune 1934

Frederick Delius   was born 1862 and died in 1934, a composer of Dutch and German ancestry, born Bradford, Yorks. educated
at Bradford Grammar School and the International College, Isleworth.

He at first entered his Father's business of wool importing, travelling to Germany, Sweden and France, but in 1882 he went to
Florida to grow oranges. Here he bought a piano and received instruction from the Brooklyn organist, Thomas F. Ward. Delius
had played the piano as  a small child,  and when about 7  years of age had been given  violin lessons. After a period  of music
teaching in America,  he returned to Europe in August 1886, and at the Leipzig Conservatoire he then studied under Hans Sitt
Reinecke and Jadassohn. His orchestral suite, , was performed in 1888, with Grieg and Sinding in the audience.

1890  he made Paris his home, where his friends included Ravel, Strindberg and Gauguin, and he met and married the Danish
painter Jelka Rosen. In 1897,  provoked a storm in Norway by his satirical rendering of  the national anthem in the incidental
music  he wrote  for Heiberg's  play Folkeraadet.   In May 1899 his music  was performed at  the old  St James's Hall,  London
meeting  with both adverse and  enthusiastic criticism. In the same year  he bought and settled down on a small  property at
Grez-sur-Loing, near Fontainebleau, where he lived and composed until his death.

At a Delius  festival, organized  by Sir Thomas Beecham in London  in 1929,  aroused much  enthusiasm,  performances being
given of A Mass of life,Appalachia and extracts from the operas Fennimore and Gerda and A Village Romeo and Juliet, A Mass
of  Life (from  Nietzsche's Zararthustra),  perhaps his most ambitious  composition,  was composed in 1904-5.  The incidental
music for Flecker's  Hassan became well known  in London by the long run of the play in 1923.  His last years were tragically
saddened by blindness and paralysis.
Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated on 2022
By Steven Ritchie

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Thanks to Stretch, for the following music below, Email (stretch@hal-pc.org)

New (3598)"Marche from the Petite Suite for Orchestre No.1". Sequenced by Stretch.

New (3597)"Berceuse from the Petite Suite for Orchestre No.1". Sequenced by Stretch.

New (3596)"Scherzo from the Petite Suite for Orchestre No.1". Sequenced by Stretch.

New (3595)"Duo from the Petite Suite for Orchestre No.1". Sequenced by Stretch.

New (3594)"Tema con Variazione from the Petite Suite for Orchestre No.1". Sequenced by Stretch.

Thanks to Eward Gold for the music below, please visit his "Website"

"Floridal Suite 1.Daybreak-Dance". Sequenced by Edward Gold

"Floridal Suite 2, By the River". Sequenced by Edward Gold

"Floridal Suite 3, Sunset-Near the Plantation". Sequenced by Edward Gold

"Floridal Suite 4, At Night". Sequenced by Edward Gold

Thanks to Yu Nakajima, for the following music below, Email (GCD02321@nifty.ne.jp)

GS Compatible required & optimized for SC-88 Pro to play Yu Nakajima midi files.

(2115)"Legend prelude". Sequenced by Yu Nakajima

(1887)"Irmelin prelude". Sequenced by Yu Nakajima

(1865)"Sleigh Ride(Winter Night)". Sequenced by Yu Nakajima

(1848)"On hearing the first cuckoo in spring". Sequenced by Yu Nakajima

(57)"La Calindia from Koanga". Sequened by Art Slater

Thanks to Bill Thompson for the following music below.

(80a)"Irmelin prelude". Sequenced by Bill Thompson

(467)"Badinage (c.1885, unpublished)". Sequence by Bill Thompson

(468)"Koanga - Closing Scene". Sequenced by Bill Tdhompson

(472)"Zum Carnival". Sequenced by Bill Thompson

(473)"Serenade from Hassane". Sequenced by Bill Thompson

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