"Music is an outburst of the soul." - Frederick Delius

 

 

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce.

Born: January 29, 1862, Bradford Died: June 10, 1934, Grez-sur-Loing Last album: Orchestral Works (English Northern Philharmonia feat. conductor: David Lloyd-Jones) Compositions: A Village Romeo and Juliet, Sea Drift, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Koanga, A Song of the High Hills, A Song of Summer, Florida Suite, In a Summer Garden, Fennimore and Gerda, Songs of Farewell, Paris: The Song of a Great City, Eventyr, Il pleure dans mon cœur, Songs of Sunset, The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls, Twilight Fancies, Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, La lune blanche, American Rhapsody, 'Joy, shipmate, joy', Nach neuen Meeren, 'How sweet the silent backward tracings', Chanson de Fortunio, A Dance Rhapsody No. 1, Birds in the high hall garden, In the Seraglio Garden, I Seraillets Have, Come into the garden, 5 Pieces, Midsummer Song, Der Wandrer, A Mass of Life, Irmelin Rose, An den Sonnenschein, Go not, happy day, 'A song of the setting sun!', A Song Before Sunrise, Abendstimmung, 'Passage to you', Seven Danish Songs, Fünf Gesänge, A late lark, 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra, 'Now finalè to the shore', Five Songs from the Norwegian, Dance for harpsichord, Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, Cynara, Der FichtenbaumMore Education: Bradford Grammar School, Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre Libretti: A Village Romeo and Juliet, Fennimore and Gerda