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Frederick Delius
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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. He was born in Bradford, England, to a prosperous mercantile family and initially resisted attempts to involve him in the family business. In 1884 he was sent to Florida in the United States to manage an orange plantation. During his stay he developed an interest in music and was influenced by African American musical traditions. In 1886 he returned to Europe. After a short period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, Delius began a full-time career as a composer. He settled in Paris and later in Grez-sur-Loing in France, where he lived with his wife Jelka for most of the rest of his life, apart from the years of the First World War. Delius’s early successes occurred in Germany, where conductors including Hans Haym promoted his music from the late 1890s. In Britain his works were not widely performed until 1907, when conductor Thomas Beecham began to champion them. Beecham conducted the complete premiere of "A Mass of Life" in London in 1909, having previously premiered its second part in Germany in 1908. He also staged the opera "A Village Romeo and Juliet" at Covent Garden in 1910 and organised a six-day festival of Delius’s music in London in 1929, in addition to making gramophone recordings of many of the composer’s works. After 1918 Delius began to experience the effects of syphilis, which he had contracted earlier in his life in
top songs
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2 Aquarelles: Lento, ma non troppo
116,0242Delius: 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
51,1773On hearing the first Cuckoo in spring
34,0424Three Piano Preludes: No. 2
30,7005Over the Mountains High (arr. J. Lloyd Webber for cello and piano)
15,21463 Small Tone Poems: No. 1. Summer Evening
12,9837Romance for Cello and Piano
12,1578Florida Suite: IV. At night
10,9349Summer Night on the River
8,657103 Small Tone Poems: No. 3. Spring Morning
8,324albums
The Delius Collection
DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Delius: Florida Suite / North Country Sketches / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Greensleeves
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
DELIUS: Violin Concerto (Tintner Edition 10)
2 Aquarelles
Delius: Orchestral Works
Delius: Florida Suite - Over the Hills and Far Away
Romance for Cello and Piano
Songs from the Arc of Life
The Lark Ascending collection