- Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer
When did Frederick Delius die? / Died | 10 June 1934 |
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Frederick Delius facts
- Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce
- He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation
- There he soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe
- Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing
- After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War
- Delius's first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s
- In Delius's native Britain, it was 1907 before his music made regular appearances in concert programmes, after Thomas Beecham took it up
- Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 (he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works
- After 1918 Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris
- He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby
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