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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 , including the still-popular '' H.M.S. Pinafore '', '' The Pirates Of Penzance '', and '' The Mikado ''. Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 orchestral works, eight choral or oratorio works, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces.See The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive list of Sullivan's Major Works and associated pages. Apart from his Comic Opera s with Gilbert, Sullivan is best known for some of his hymns and Parlour Songs , including " Onward Christian Soldiers ", " The Absent-Minded Beggar ", and " The Lost Chord ". However, his most critically praised pieces include his '' Irish Symphony '', his '' Concerto For Cello And Orchestra '', his '' Overture Di Ballo '', '' The Martyr Of Antioch '', '' The Golden Legend '', and, of the Savoy Opera s, '' The Yeomen Of The Guard ''. Sullivan's only Grand Opera , '' Ivanhoe '', was initially successful but has been little heard since his death. LIFE AND CAREER Beginnings Sullivan was born in 's musical style. "Sullivan sans Gilbert" - Steve Schwartz Sullivan credited his Leipzig period with tremendous musical growth. His graduation piece, completed in 1861, was a set of 1881 , Issue 30336, pg. 8 col C Sullivan's early major works were those typically expected of a serious composer. In 1866, he premiered the '' Irish Symphony '' (though he may have completed it by 1863) and the '' Concerto For Cello And Orchestra '', his only works in each genre.Jacobs, pp. 36 and 42 In the same year, his '' Overture In C (In Memoriam) '', written in grief shortly after the death of his father, was a commission from the Norwich Festival , and during his lifetime it was one of his most successful works for orchestra.Jacobs, p. 43 His single most successful work for orchestra,Hughes, p. 14 the '' Overture Di Ballo '', satisfied a commission from the Birmingham Festival in 1870. Description and analysis of Sullivan's early orchestral works '', Sullivan's never-performed, and largely lost first opera]] His long association with works for the voice began early. Significant commissions for chorus and orchestra included '''' (1871), to a text of eleven poems by Tennyson .Jacobs p. 57 | ||
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