Edward German

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[details ←] Young Singer, The-Bk. 1-Tenor, piano, vocal,
[details ←] Three Songs of Childhood, piano, vocal,
[details ←] My Bonnie Lass She Smileth, choral, vocal,
[details ←] Song Without Words, clarinet,
[details ←] Torch Dance, trumpet,
[details ←] Coronation March - full score, percussion,
[details ←] Henry VIII, Three Dances - full score, percussion,
[details ←] Nell Gwyn, Incidental Music: Overture - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] Nell Gwyn, Incidental Music: Three Dances - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] The Conquerer, Incidental Music: Romance and Two Dances - conductor’s score, piano, percussion, harp,
[details ←] The Seasons, Symphonic Suite; No. 1: Spring - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] The Seasons, Symphonic Suite; No. 2: Summer (Harvest Dance) - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] The Seasons, Symphonic Suite; No. 3: Autumn - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] The Seasons, Symphonic Suite; No. 4: Winter (Christmastide) - full score, percussion, harp,
[details ←] Theme and Six Diversions - full score, percussion, cello, harp,
[details ←] Welsh Rhapsody (extra condensed score), concert band,
[details ←] Romance and Intermezzo, flute,
[details ←] Morris Dance (from the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Henry VIII), concert band,
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Born: 17 February 1862 — Shropshire — England
Died: 11 November 1936 — London — England
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Music

Symphonies (2), symphonic poems, orchestra suites, incidental music for plays, operas and operettas.

Life

Attended the Royal Academy of Music and began his musical career as a composer of serious orchestral pieces, including two symphonies and other works. He became the musical director of the Globe Theatre, and began to write lighter incidental music for plays and other theatre pieces. With the death of Arthur Sullivan, German inherited the mantle of chief British composer of the musical theatre. He was knighted in 1928 and died in London in 1936.

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