Delius, Frederick (Theodore Albert)

Delius, Frederick (Theodore Albert)
(29 ene. 1862, Bradford, Yorkshire, Inglaterra–10 jun. 1934, Grez-sur-Loing, Francia).

Compositor británico de origen alemán. Nacido en Inglaterra de padres alemanes, estudió música en Leipzig y otros lugares. En 1887, Edvard Grieg convenció a sus padres para que lo dejaran seguir la carrera musical. Se trasladó a Francia y finalmente se instaló en una villa cerca de París. Después de la primera guerra mundial, como consecuencia de la sífilis, sucumbió gradualmente a la parálisis y la ceguera. Entre sus obras, influidas por Claude Debussy, destacan las óperas A Village Romeo and Juliet (1901) y Fennimore and Gerda (1910); los poemas sinfónicos Brigg Fair (1907) y On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (1912); y las obras corales Appalachia (1903) y A Mass of Life (1908).

Frederick Delius, dibujo de Edmond X. Kapp, 1932.
Edmond X. Kapp

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