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Arthur Seymour Sullivan

The music half of the Gilbert & Sullivan team. His most famous sacred work is SAINT GERTRUDE to the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers.

Timeline

born:
London, 13 May 1842
1852-66
Chorister of the Chapel Royal
1856-58
Studied at the Royal Academy under a first Mendelssohn Scholarship
1858-60
Studied at the Leipzig Conservatory
1862
The Tempest a sucess at the Crystal Palace.
1864
Masque Kenilworth premiered in Birmingham
1866
First operetta, Cox and Box, performed.
1867
Daydreams for piano; The Overture Marmion
1867
Oratorio The Prodigal Son
1870
Overture di ballo
1871
First collaboration with W. S. Gilbert, the comic opera Thispis goes by with little notice. Cantata On Shore and Sea permiered at the Albert Hall
1872
Onward Christian Soldiers
1873
Oratorio The Light of the World
1875
Trial by Jury a huge success
1876
Richard D'Oyly Carte forms a company specifically for further Gilbert & Sullivan collaborations.
1877
The Lost Chord;
17 November 1877
The Sorcerer
25 May 1878
H.M.S. Pinafore
1879
Gilbert & Sullivan tour the US.
30 December 1879
For copyright resons, The Pirates of Penzance premiers in Devon one day before opening in New York.
23 April 1881
Patience premiers in London.
10 October 1881
Patience the inaugural performance of the new Savoy Theater, built by Richard D'Oyly Carte for them.
25 November 1882
Iolanthe
5 January 1883
Princess Ida
14 March 1885
The Mikado
22 January 1887
Ruddigore
7 December 1889
the Gondoliers
1890
W.S.Gilbert's suit against Richard D'Oyly Carte splits up the team of Gilbert & Sullivan and sells a lot of newspapers.
31 January 1891
Opera Ivanhoe premiered at the Royal English Opera House.
1893
The reunification of Gilbert & Sullivan in Utopia Unlimited doesn't still the public's interest.
1896
The Grande Duke is G & S's last collaboration.
died:
London, 22 November 1900
crb@wenet.net