Antique Book - A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan – Edited By Deems Taylor

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Antique Book - A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan – Edited By Deems Taylor:
$12.45

ATreasury of Gilbert and Sullivan – Edited By Deems Taylor

Publisher –Simonand Schuster, New York

Hard Cover

405 pages

Size: 9-1/2\"by 12-1/2\"

Book is in good condition.

Description:

“Introduction: You neverknow. Author Seymour Sullivan, in his day, was the unofficial composer laureateof England. At the age of thirteen, he had seen his first publishedcomposition, an anthem. O Israel, in print. At twenty, his incidental music toThe Tempest made him famous, like Byron, practically overnight. At twenty two,he was hearing a commissioned cantata, Kenilworth, sung at the BirminghamFestival. Two years later, his In Memoriam Overture put him in the first rankof contemporary British composers. After that, an increasingly important careeras a serious composer, more cantatas, The Prodigal Son, On Shore and Sea, TheLight of the World, The Martyr of Antioch, The Golden Legend, more Shakespearemusic, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VIII, Macbeth,songs and hymns by the dozen; knighthood at forty one, ‘in recognition of yourdistinguished talents as a composer and of the services which you have renderedto the promotion of the art of music generally in this country, a grand opera,Ivanhoe. What better insurance of immortality could any composer ask? Thenthere was William Schwenck Gilbert, who starting with a burlesque, Dr.Dulcamara, produced when he was thirty, diligently pursued a career as a writerof plays, The Wicked World, Sweethearts, Engaged and a dozen others.”