Swedish Rhapsody
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By Hugh S. Roberton
Publisher:
RBC Music
Arranger:
Isaac
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Level: 3
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Composer
Hugh S. Roberton (1874-1952)
Sir Hugh S. Roberton (23 February 1874 – 7 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and Britain`s leading choral-master.
Roberton was born in Glasgow, where, in 1906, he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. For five years before that it was the Toynbee Musical Association. A perfectionist, he expected the highest standards of performance from its members. Its voice was a choir voice, its individual voices not tolerated. He set new standards in choral technique and interpretation. For almost fifty years until it disbanded in 1951, on the retiral of its founder, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir had no equal in Britain and toured widely enjoying world acclaim. Their repertoire included many Scottish folk songs arranged for choral performance, and Paraphrases, as well as Italian madrigals, English motets and the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. The choir also performed the works of Bach, Handel, Mandelssohn, Cornelius, Brahms and others.
He wrote the choral work All in the April Evening, the popular song Westering Home, and Mhàiri's Wedding.
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