Arthur Sullivan: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Born May 13, 1842 • London • England
Died November 22, 1900 (aged 58) • London • England
Notable Works “H.M.S. Pinafore” • “Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri” • “Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride” • “Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant” • “Ruddigore; or, The Witch’s Curse” • “The Gondoliers” • “The Mikado” • “The Pirates of Penzance” • “The Rose of Persia” • “The Sorcerer” • “Trial by Jury”

Photos


Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
British conductor and composer
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Sir Henry J. Wood
British musician
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
English composer and conductor
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
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Reynaldo Hahn
French composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
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Sir Michael Tippett
British composer
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Sir Eugene Goossens
British conductor
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John Liptrot Hatton
British composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician