“Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick DeLuis

 

 

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 Summer, A Song of the High Hills, Florida Suite, In a Summer Garden, Fennimore and Gerda, Songs of Farewell, Songs of Sunset, Paris: The Song of a Great City, Eventyr, Il pleure dans mon cœur, Twilight Fancies, The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls, Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, La lune blanche, American Rhapsody, 'Joy, shipmate, joy', Nach neuen Meeren, Birds in the high hall garden, 'How sweet the silent backward tracings', In the Seraglio Garden, Chanson de Fortunio, 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!', Abendstimmung, A Song Before Sunrise, 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra, Seven Danish Songs, A late lark, 'Passage to you', Fünf Gesänge, 'Now finalè to the shore', Five Songs from the Norwegian, Dance for harpsichord, Cynara, Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, Der Fichtenbaum, Ved SolnedgangMore

Education: Bradford Grammar School, Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

Libretti: A Village Romeo and Juliet, Fennimore and Gerda.