What is Frederick Delius famous for?
Frederick Delius is an English Romantic composer, whose best pieces include ‘A Mass of Life’ and ‘A Village Romeo and Juliet’. Find out more about the man and his most famous music with our handy guide.
What nationality is Delius?
English
Frederick Delius/Nationality
Where was Frederick Delius born?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frederick Delius/Place of birth
Where did Florida Delius live?
Delius was in Florida from the spring of 1884 to the autumn of 1885, living on a plantation at Solano Grove on the Saint Johns River, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) south of Jacksonville.
Where did French Delius live?
Grez-sur-Loing
An all-Delius concert in London in 1899, however, met with mixed success. In the meantime, he had become friends with a German painter, Helene Jelka Rosen, whom he met in Paris in 1896. The next year he moved in to share her house at Grez-sur-Loing, near Fontainebleau, and this was his home for the rest of his life.
Where is Delius buried?
May 26, 1935
Frederick Delius/Date of burial
Where did Delius go to school?
Bradford Grammar School
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Frederick Delius/Education
The son of a German manufacturer who had become a naturalized British subject in 1860, Delius was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the International College, Isleworth, London.
What instruments did Peter Warlock?
In October 1911 he proceeded to Cologne to learn German and to study piano at the conservatory. In Cologne Heseltine produced his first few songs which, like all his earliest works, were highly imitative of Delius.
Where is Sir Thomas Beecham buried?
St Peter Churchyard, Limpsfield
Thomas Beecham/Place of burial
Where is Thomas Beecham buried?
1991
Thomas Beecham/Date of burial
What killed Peter Warlock?
Gas poisoning
Peter Warlock/Cause of death
What was Peter Warlocks real name?
Philip Heseltine
Peter Warlock, byname of Philip Heseltine, (born Oct. 30, 1894, London—died Dec. 17, 1930, London), English composer, critic, and editor known for his songs and for his exemplary editions of Elizabethan music.
