biography
pronunciation:
[deelius]
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| lived:
| (1862–1934)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK, of German–Scandinavian descent. He followed a commercial career until he was 20, when he went to Florida as an orange planter, studying music in his spare time. He entered Leipzig Conservatory in 1886, and became a friend of Grieg. After 1890 he lived almost entirely in France, composing prolifically. He wrote six operas, including A Village Romeo and Juliet (1901), and a variety of choral and orchestral works, such as Appalachia (1902) and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (1912). In 1924 he became paralysed and blind, but with the assistance of Eric Fenby (1906–97), his amanuensis from 1928, he continued to compose. |
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