On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring
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Product ID: GM1 CL147
By Frederick Delius
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Classics
Genre:
Impressionism
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
6:00
Level: 4
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About this item
Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in Yorkshire, the fourth of fourteen children of Julius and Elise Pauline Delius who had moved to England from Bielefeld, Germany to set themselves up in the woollen business. His father wanted Frederick to work in the family business, but Frederick had other ideas and pursued a career in music living most of his life abroad in the United States and continental Europe especially France.
"On hearing the first cuckoo in spring" was written in 1912 and became one of the "Two Pieces for small orchestra", the other being "Summer night on the river" (which is also available in the Goodmusic Concert Classics Series (no. GMCL148).
Instrumentation
Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass)
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Composer
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation, where he neglected his managerial duties; influenced by African-American music, 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 (except during the First World War) for the rest of their lives.
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