Christmas Overture
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Product ID: GM1 CL166
By Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
published: 1925
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Arranger:
Baynes
Series:
Concert Classics
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
5:30
Level: 4
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About this item
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London, the son of a West African father and English mother. Early in his life, his father, a doctor, unable to make a success in Britain, returned to Sierra Leone. The boy showed talenton the violin from the age of five, and by 1890, with generous backing from a Presbyterian choirmaster, entered the Royal College of Music, studying with Charles Villiers Stanford. Elgar called him "far and away the cleverest fellow going among theyounger men". The Hiawatha trilogy made his name and performances were so plentiful that with Mendelssohn's Elijah it held second place only to Messiah in the hearts of choral societies the length of the country. He died in Croydon at the age of only 37 before his full potential as a composer could be fulfilled. His Christmas Overture appeared posthumously in 1925, arranged by Sydney Baynes, of Destiny Waltz fame; it features God rest you merry, gentlemen, and Hark the herald angels sing andis thought to have been put together from incidental music he wrote for a children's play called The Forest of Wild Thyme.
Instrumentation
2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Timpani, Percussion (3 players: Tubular bells, Glockenspiel, Side Drum, Triangle, Cymbals, Bass Drum), Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)
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Composer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".
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