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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. 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.The lyricism in Delius's early compositions reflected the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner. As his skills matured, he developed a style uniquely his own, characterised by his individual orchestration and his uses of chromatic harmony. Delius's music has been only intermittently popular, and often subject to critical attacks. The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composer's life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.
Parents are German. Father: Julius, who is a wool businessman. Mother: Elise.
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Is a good friend of Eric Fenby, who became his amanuensis from 1928 up to his death in 1934, when he was already blind and paralysed and therefore could no longer compose music by handwriting.
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His wife, Jelka, a painter, died just one year after him as a result of the strain brought upon her health due to her devotion to her ailing husband.
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His amanuensis Eric Fenby and the English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham are the greatest champions of his works.
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Fourth of fourteen children.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
BBC Proms
2012
TV Series music - 1 episode
The Royal Wedding
2011
TV Movie "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"
Crush
2001/I
writer: "Florida Suite"
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
1985
TV Series music - 1 episode
Special Order
1974
writer: "Song of Summer" - uncredited
The Yearling
1946
music: "Florida Suite" 1887, "Koanga" 1895-7, "Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song".1902 - uncredited