CDV Superb Opera Composer Arthur S Sullivan Mikado
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ORDINARY-LIGHT VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY Photographer :John Murdoch Locale :London Condition :Excellent FORMAT :Carte de Visite OTHER :Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan ( May 13 , 1842 - November 22 , 1900 ) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert . His artistic output included 23 operas, 13 orchestral works, 8 choral or oratorio works, 2 ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces. Sullivan was born in Lambeth , now part of London . His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Arthur had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band. Following a stay at private school in Bayswater , he was admitted to the choir of the Chapel Royal , attending its school in Cheyne Walk . While t, he began to compose anthems and songs. In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn prize and became a student at the Royal Academy of Music until 1858. He then continued his studies at Leipzig , w he also took up conducting .[2] Sullivan credited his Leipzig period with tremendous musical growth. His graduation piece, completed in 1861, was a set of incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest . Revised and expanded, it was performed at the Crystal Palace
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