GILBERT & SULLIVAN: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN RARE 1900 PHOTO

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A rare original circa 1900 photographic postcard of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Light wear otherwise good. See Gilbert and Sullivan's extraordinary biographies below.Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early Gilbert and Sullivan items, theatre, opera, film and historical autographs, photographs and programs, and great actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV's.FROM WIKIPEDIA:Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842--1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore , The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known. [1]Gilbert, who wrote the libretti for these operas, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion--fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray. [2] Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies [n 1] that could convey both humour and pathos. [n 2]Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. [5] [6] Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. [7] The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists. The producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works (which came to be known as the Savoy Operas ) and founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 -- 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert , including H.M.S. Pinafore , The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado . His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios , two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include " Onward, Christian Soldiers " and " The Lost Chord ".The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at the age of eight and was later a soloist in the boys' choir of the Chapel Royal . In 1856, at 14, he was awarded the first Mendelssohn Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music , which allowed him to study at the academy and then at the Leipzig Conservatoire in Germany. His graduation piece, incidental music to Shakespeare 's The Tempest (1861), was received with acclaim on its first performance in London. Among his early major works were a ballet, L'Île Enchantée (1864), a symphony , a cello concerto (both 1866), and his Overture di Ballo (1870). To supplement the income from his concert works he wrote hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces, and worked as a church organist and music teacher.In 1866 Sullivan composed a one-act comic opera , Cox and Box , which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with W. S. Gilbert, Thespis , in 1871. Four years later, the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury (1875). Its box-office success led to a series of twelve full-length comic operas by the collaborators. After the extraordinary success of H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Carte used his profits from the partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works became known as the Savoy operas . Among the best known of the later operas are The Mikado (1885) and The Gondoliers (188... read more

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