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August 1891 in London; † 27. März 1975 ebenda) war ein englischer Komponist . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Werke (Auswahl) 3 Filmmusik. 4 Diskographische Hinweise. 5 Weblinks. 6 Einzelnachweise. Leben. Bliss studierte in Cambridge bei Cyril Rootham und Charles Wood und am Royal College of Music bei Charles Villiers Stanford und Gustav Holst.
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss CH KCVO (2 August 1891 – 27 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army.
Arthur Bliss was born in London in 1891, the eldest son of Agnes Kennard Davis, an accopmplished amateur pianist, and Francis Edward Bliss, a businessman who had come to England from Springfield, Massachusetts. From his father he inherited skills in administration; his talent in music came from his mother, who died suddenly in 1895.
Morning Heroes is a choral symphony by the English composer Arthur Bliss. The work received its first performance at the Norwich Festival on 22 October 1930, with Basil Maine as the speaker/orator. Written in the aftermath of World War I, in which Bliss had performed military service, Bliss inscribed the dedication as follows:
A Colour Symphony, Op. 24, F. 106, was written by Arthur Bliss in 1921–22. [1] . It was his first major work for orchestra, [2] and is today one of his best-known compositions. Orchestration.
23. März 2024 · Sir Arthur Bliss (born August 2, 1891, London—died March 27, 1975, London) was one of the leading English composers of the first half of the 20th century, noted both for his early, experimental works and for his later, more subjective compositions. Bliss studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.
Arthur Bliss wrote music of considerable diversity, ranging from early experimental works for a small body of players to the larger-scale powerful compositions which followed. Throughout his long creative life, the spirit of enquiry and of originality in approach was to be found in his work right up to his death in 1975. He was an accomplished ...
