Which English composer lived from 1872 to 1958. His last opera was 'Pilgrim's Progress'?
"To Be a Pilgrim ""To Be a Pilgrim"" (also commonly known as ""He who would Valiant be"") is the only hymn John Bunyan is credited with writing, and is indelibly associated with him. It first appeared in Part 2 of ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", written in 1684. The hymn recalls the words of Hebrews 11:13: ""...and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."" The words were modified extensively by Percy Dearmer for the 1906 ""The English Hymnal"". At the same time it was given a new tune by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who used a melody taken"
"John Noble (baritone) John Noble (2 January 193121 March 2008) was an English baritone. He was Ralph Vaughan Williams's favourite in the title role of the composer's opera ""The Pilgrim's Progress"". Born in Southampton, the son of a gardener, Noble's love of music and performance began at Godalming Grammar School, Surrey. He gained a scholarship to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he graduated in geography. While there, he studied singing with the baritone Clive Carey, and George Guest arranged for him to join the choir of St. John's College for a postgraduate year. In 1954, Noble took the title role in"
"and the Pars Organica. Thomas Tomkins Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 9 June 1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school. Tomkins was born in St David's in Pembrokeshire in 1572. His father, also Thomas, who had moved there in 1565 from the family home of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, was a vicar choral of St David's Cathedral and organist there. Three of Thomas"
"chaos."" Coming as it did near the start of the Cold War, many critics thought its ""pianissimo"" last movement a depiction of a nuclear-scorched wasteland. The composer was dismissive of programmatic theories: ""It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."" In 1951 Adeline died, aged eighty. In the same year Vaughan Williams's last opera, ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", was staged at Covent Garden as part of the Festival of Britain. He had been working intermittently on a musical treatment of John Bunyan's allegory for forty-five years, and the 1951 ""morality"""
"of the ""Sinfonia antartica"" in the lamenting voices of the women and in the sound of the sea. ""The Bridal Day"" (1938–1939) is a masque, to a scenario by Ursula, combining voice, mime and dance, first performed in 1953 on BBC television. Vaughan Williams later recast it a cantata, ""Epithalamion"" (1957). ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" (1951), the composer's last opera, was the culmination of more than forty years' intermittent work on the theme of Bunyan's religious allegory. Vaughan Williams had written incidental music for an amateur dramatisation in 1906, and had returned to the theme in 1921 with the one-act ""The"
"mentioned. He became the last Organist of Chichester Cathedral before the post was merged with 'Master of the Choristers' in 1801. William Walond Sr. William Walond (b Oxford, bap. 16 July 1719; d Oxford, bur. 21 Aug 1768) was an English composer and organist. After four years as Assistant Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Walond graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1757. His setting of Alexander Pope's ""Ode on St Cecilia's Day"" had served as his exercise. He also published two sets of voluntaries for the organ or harpsichord (op. 1, c. 1752 and op. 2, 1758) and the"
"in the writer has increased and Oxford University Press brought out a new edition of his works, beginning in 1976. Authors who have been influenced by Bunyan include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott and George Bernard Shaw. Bunyan's work, in particular ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", has reached a wider audience through stage productions, film, TV, and radio. An opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" was first performed at the Royal Opera House in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain and revived in 2012 by the English National Opera. John Bunyan had"
"Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ""Peter Grimes"" (1945), the ""War Requiem"" (1962) and the orchestral showpiece ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" (1945). Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer"
"advertisement for his music in 1916 it was thought that ""more than doubtful whether he has a rival among modern British composers who specialise in educational music."" The orchestral suite ""Stella-Mary Dances"" was written in memory of his oldest daughter who died in 1917, aged 12. They were played (along with his ""Vicar of Bray"" variations) on BBC Radio on 15 November 1929; the broadcast was followed by a concert of music from ""The Beggar's Opera"" by his brother Frederic, who also conducted. One of his best-known works is ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", a 12-section narrative tone poem setting for a"
"Charles Dibdin Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was a British composer, musician, dramatist, novelist and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of ""Tom Bowling"", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas ""The Waterman"" (1774) and ""The Quaker"" (1775), and several novels,"
"Dudley Simpson Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years, although he is best known for his work as a composer on British television, especially his long association with the BBC science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"", for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. Among his early television work was the music for ""Moonstrike"" (1963). Simpson was also responsible for the theme music for ""The Brothers"" (1972), ""The Tomorrow People"" (1973), ""Moonbase 3"" (1973), ""The Ascent"
"Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as"
"used in prison as well as his will and a third edition of ""The Pilgrim's Progress"". John Bunyan Museum John Bunyan Museum is a museum primarily dedicated to the life, times and works of John Bunyan. The museum is located in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. John Bunyan (1628 – 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born in Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August. In 1672, the led"
"William Macready's farewell benefit; and ""The Village Nightingale"", words by Henry Thornton Craven, his son-in-law. He had a grand opera, ""Ulrica"", in rehearsal at the Princess's Theatre, London under John Medex Maddox's management, but, owing to some dispute, it was not produced. He was the author of ""Instructions in the Art of Singing"" and composed many duets, trios, piano pieces, and songs; some of the latter, such as ""The Pilot"" and ""Rose of Allendale"", attained considerable popularity. ""Mary of Argyle"" also became popular. Attribution Sidney Nelson Sidney Nelson (1 January 1800 – 7 April 1862) was an English composer, particularly"
"performed some five thousand times in English-speaking countries by 1930. Kelley's best-known composition was an oratorio, ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", composed on a text by Elizabeth Hodgkinson and based on the eponymous text by John Bunyan. It was first performed in Cincinnati in 1918, and was frequently revived thereafter, both in the United States and in England. He also wrote program music, including orchestral suites after both ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" and ""Alice in Wonderland""; his first symphony was based on ""Gulliver's Travels"", and depicted Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput. His output also included numerous pieces of chamber music. Kelley"
"Joseph Holbrooke Joseph Charles Holbrooke (5 July 18785 August 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Joseph Holbrooke was born Joseph Charles Holbrook in Croydon, Surrey. His father, also named Joseph, was a music hall musician and teacher, and his mother Helen was a Scottish singer. He had two older sisters (Helen and Mary) and two younger brothers (Robert and James), both of whom died in infancy. The family travelled around the country, with both parents participating in musical entertainments. Holbrooke's mother died in 1880 from tuberculosis, leaving the family in the care of Joseph senior, who settled the"
"Edward Loder Edward James Loder (10 July 1809 – 5 April 1865) was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is perhaps the 1855 opera ""Raymond and Agnes"", though his most successful opera during his lifetime was ""The Night Dancers"". Loder was born in Bath, Somerset. He was the son of John David Loder (1788–1846), a violinist and musical director of the Theatre Royal, Bath, and his wife Rosamund, née Mills (1787–1856), a step-daughter of the comedian John Fawcett. Edward Loder's twin brother John Fawcett Loder (1809–1853) was a violinist, and a younger brother William Sowerby Loder (1812–1851)"
"authority to insist on Boult's enforced retirement. Haley was unaware of Wilson's personal animus against Boult and later acknowledged, in a broadcast tribute to Boult, that he ""had listened to ill-judged advice in retiring him."" In 1949 Wilson, aged 60, moved to Covent Garden to take the post of deputy general administrator of the Royal Opera House. While in that position he gave support to the Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik, who had recently defected from communist Poland, by introducing him to the concert agent Harold Holt. Wilson was responsible for securing the premiere of Vaughan Williams's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" at"
"John Foulds John Herbert Foulds (; 2 November 188025 April 1939) was an English composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs to the figures of the English Musical Renaissance. A successful composer of light music and theatre scores, his principal creative energies went into more ambitious and exploratory works that were particularly influenced by Indian music. Suffering a setback after the decline in popularity of his ""World Requiem"" (1919–1921), he left London for Paris in 1927, and eventually travelled to India in 1935 where, among other things, he collected folk music, composed pieces for"
"Peter Aston Peter Aston (5 October 1938 – 13 September 2013) was an English composer, academic and conductor who is well known for his choral works. Born in Birmingham, he studied at Birmingham School of Music and the University of York. In 1964, he became a lecturer in music in the University of York and in 1974 he was appointed professor of music in the University of East Anglia, where he subsequently became Emeritus Professor of composition. Although best known for his liturgical choral works, his output included chamber works for voices and instruments, choral and orchestral works and an"
"John Bunyan Museum John Bunyan Museum is a museum primarily dedicated to the life, times and works of John Bunyan. The museum is located in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. John Bunyan (1628 – 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born in Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", arguably the most famous published Christian allegory. In the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August. In 1672, the led by Bunyan purchased a barn which they used to conduct worship. Eventually, a church, which came"
"area of London on 10 April 1952 aged 80. Frederic Austin Frederic Austin (30 March 187210 April 1952) was an English baritone singer, a musical teacher and composer in the period 1905–30. He is best remembered for his restoration and production of ""The Beggar's Opera"" by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, and its sequel, ""Polly"", in 1920–23. Austin was the older brother of the composer Ernest Austin (1874–1947). The standard melody for the carol ""The Twelve Days of Christmas"" was published by Austin in 1909. His arrangement of a traditional folk melody saw him add his own two-bar motif"
"Thomas Tomkins Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 9 June 1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school. Tomkins was born in St David's in Pembrokeshire in 1572. His father, also Thomas, who had moved there in 1565 from the family home of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, was a vicar choral of St David's Cathedral and organist there. Three of Thomas junior's half-brothers, John, Giles"
"""The Pretenders"" in 1913, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Afterwards, he spent time travelling. He died in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Some of his other poems were set to music by Arnold Bax. Herbert Trench Frederic Herbert Trench (12 November 1865 – 11 June 1923) was an Irish poet. Trench was born in Avonmore, County Cork, and educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford. From 1891 he worked as an examiner for the Board of Education. In 1908 a Dramatic Symphony, opus 51, written by Joseph Holbrooke setting Trench's poem ""Apollo and the Seaman"" was performed, under Thomas Beecham. Trench then moved into"
"Bernard Herrmann's only opera, ""Wuthering Heights"", conducted by the composer. In 1972 he founded the Opera School at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and subsequently became Head of Vocal Studies there in 1986. He was awarded an OBE in the 1992 Birthday Honours List for his services. In Australia he has directed productions of ""Billy Budd"" and Ralph Vaughan Williams's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"". He sang as a tenor in the first recording of the latter opera, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Joseph Ward (tenor) Joseph Ward OBE (born Preston, 1932) is an English tenor, formerly a baritone,"
"companies, Harrods into the 1930s. He died in London at the age of 69. Philip Michael Faraday Philip Michael Faraday (1 January 1875 – 6 February 1944) was an English lawyer, surveyor, composer, organist and theatrical producer. He composed one of the last Savoy operas, staged several long-running shows in the West End of London, and wrote a book about local taxation that was for many years the standard work on the subject. After sustaining financial losses on shows that he produced in the 1910s, Faraday declared bankruptcy in 1914. In later years, however, he rebuilt his fortune through his"
"W. K. Stanton Walter Kendall Stanton (29 September 1891, Dauntsey, Wiltshire – 30 June 1978, Sedgehill, Shaftesbury, Dorset) was an English organist and composer of sacred music. At Salisbury Cathedral he was a chorister. Subsequently, he was educated at Lancing College and then from 1909 to 1913 at Merton College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar. He served various schools as Director of Music: St Edward's School, Oxford (1915–1924); Wellington College (1924–1937); Reading University (1927–1937); the Midland Region of the BBC (1937–1945); and Professor of Music at Bristol University (1947–1958). Stanton composed mostly choral music, including almost 50 hymn"
"to 1906. He died in London in 1908 at the age of 48. Walter Slaughter Walter Alfred Slaughter (17 February 1860 – 2 March 1908) was an English conductor and composer of musical comedy, comic opera and children's shows. He was engaged in the West End as a composer and musical director from 1883 to 1904. Slaughter was born in Fitzroy Square, London. He attended the City of London School, and sang in the choir of St. Andrew's Church, Wells Street under Joseph Barnby. After leaving school, he worked in a wine merchant's office and then for the music publishers"
"widely for EMI and Lyrita, especially choral works, songs and opera. One of his early performances was in EMI’s recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", in the small role of Second Yeoman, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. His choral recordings include solo parts in Bach’s St Matthew Passion (with both Vaughan Williams and Otto Klemperer), Fauré’s Requiem and numerous works by Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Among his opera performances is as the Evangelist in Sir Adrian Boult’s recording of Vaughan Williams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. His English song recordings include the works of Gerald Finzi, notably"
"Concerts of the Royal Academy of Music, 1886–1888. Arthur Murray Goodhart Arthur Murray Goodhart (christened 25 July 1866 – 1941) was a British composer and organist. Goodhart was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, England in 1866 to Eleanor and Charles Woide Goodhart. He was educated at Eton College and then King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club. He was a pupil of Sir Joseph Barnby and Frank Bridge, then a housemaster at Eton College. He later lived in Brighton and he contributed to ""The Triumphs of Oriana (1899)"". Precentor of Eton College, 1875–1892, then principal of"
"of the Evangelist in the première of Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim's Progress), and sang with Sadler's Wells Opera, Jay Pomeroy's company at the Cambridge Theatre and at Glyndebourne, but devoted himself increasingly to oratorio, including the major works of Bach, Handel and Elgar. He also gave BBC broadcasts of lieder. In 1952 he toured Australia and New Zealand. Walker suffered a stroke in 1955 and retired from singing on the stage but continued to broadcast. He taught at the Guildhall School of Music from 1951 until his death, his students including Ian Partridge, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Janet Coster, John Dobson,"
"the graveyard of the church of St Botolph Billingsgate, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, and not rebuilt. Thus his grave is lost. Thomas Morley's compositions include (in alphabetical order): Thomas Morley Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. He was also involved in music publishing, and from 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly). He used the monopoly in partnership with professional"
"William Walond Sr. William Walond (b Oxford, bap. 16 July 1719; d Oxford, bur. 21 Aug 1768) was an English composer and organist. After four years as Assistant Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Walond graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1757. His setting of Alexander Pope's ""Ode on St Cecilia's Day"" had served as his exercise. He also published two sets of voluntaries for the organ or harpsichord (op. 1, c. 1752 and op. 2, 1758) and the anthem ""Not unto us, O Lord"". Of his fourteen children, his eldest son William Walond Jr. (c. 1750-1836) deserves to be"