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Elgar
(Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
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Edward
Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Edward
William Elgar (later to become Sir Edward Elgar) was
an English Composer who was born in the village of Lower
Broadheath (near Worcester) on June 2nd 1857.
His
father, William Elgar, ran a shop sellling sheet music
and musical instruments.
Edward
Elgar left school at 15 and worked for a solicitor for
a short time before embarking on a musical career.
In
1899, his The Enigma Variations was premiered in London.
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Holst
(Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)
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Gustav
Holst (1874 - 1934)
Gustav
Theodore von Holst was a British composer who was born
in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 21st September 1874
and died in London on 25th May 1934.
Holst was educated as Pate's
Grammar School before
going on to study at London's Royal College of Music.
The birthplace of Gustav Holst can be visited in Cheltenham
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William Morris (1834 - 1896)
William
Morris was a writer, designer and socialist and was a well
known designer and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Morris was born on March 24th 1834 in Walthamstow and died
on October 3rd 1896.
Kelmscott
Manor was the county home of William Morris
from 1871 until his death in 1896.
William
Morris had two daughters, Jane and Mary.
More
details about William
Morris
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The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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William
Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
William
Shakespeare, the English poet and playwright, was born
and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He
is thought of by many as one of the greatest English
language writers of all time.
His
works are still studied and performed nearly 400 years
after his death.
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John
Singer Sargent
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John
Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
John
Singer Sargent was an American painter, famous for his
portraits.
Despite
being thought of as an American artist, Sargent lived
most of his life in Europe and was born in Italy.
In
2004, Sargent's painting "Portrait of Robert Louis
Stevenson and his Wife" was sold for $8.8m
Sargent
stayed in Broadway,
Worcestershire and is buried in Brookwood Cemetary near
Woking.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872–1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an
influential English composer who was born in Down Ampney (a short distance from
Cirencester) on 12th October 1872.
His father, the Rev. Arthur
Vaughan Williams, was the vicar of Down Ampney.
He was educated at Charterhouse
School, then Trinity College, Cambridge. Later he was a pupil of Stanford and Parry at the
Royal College of Music after which he studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel
in Paris.
Vaughan Williams was married
twice. His first marriage was in 1896 to Adeline Fisher. She died in 1951 after many years
of suffering from crippling arthritis.
In 1953 he married the poet Ursula Wood (1911-2007).
Famous works include The Lark
Ascending (1914) and the opera Sir John in Love (1924-28), from which comes an arrangement
by Ralph Greaves of Fantasia on "Greensleeves".
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