Sleigh Ride
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Product ID: GM1 CL152
By Frederick Delius
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Arranger:
orig.
Series:
Concert Classics
Genre:
Impressionism
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
5:00
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.
This edition of "Sleigh Ride", which was written in 1899 and originally titled "Winter Night", is fairly faithful to Delius' original except that he had 2 trumpet plus 2 cornet parts in A and these have been rationalised into 2 trumpets in Bb. The clarinet parts were originally for clarinet in A but a Bb part isalso provided.
Instrumentation
3 Flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A or Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Sleigh Bells, Cymbals) 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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