Arthur Bliss (Composer)
Born: 2nd August 1891, Barnes, London, England
Died: 27th March 1975, London, England
Nationality: English
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss 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. In the post-war years he quickly became known as an unconventional and modernist composer, but within the decade he began to display a more traditional and romantic side in his music. In the 1920s and 1930s he composed extensively not only for the concert hall, but also for films and ballet.
In the Second World War, Bliss returned to England from the US to work for the BBC and became its director of music.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts English music for strings
Sinfonia of London and conductor John Wilson present their latest stunning album of music for string orchestra by Britten, Bridge, Berkeley, and Bliss.
Recording of the Week,
Bliss from Sarah Connolly, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Davis continues his advocacy for the English composer with three relatively late works - the dramatic scena The Enchantress (written for Kathleen Ferrier), the Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, and the 1963 cantata Mary of Magdala.
Popular Genres: Bliss
Chamber
Instrumental
Wind & Brass Bands
Popular Works: Bliss
- A Colour Symphony (5)
- Adam Zero (5)
- Antiphonal Fanfare for three brass choirs (4)
- Cello Concerto (7)
- Checkmate (5)
- Checkmate - Suite (4)
- Clarinet Quintet (10)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (5)
- Conversations for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello (8)
- Discourse for Orchestra (3)
- Elegiac Sonnet (4)
- Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London (6)
- Hymn to Apollo (3)
- Introduction and Allegro (6)
- Meditations on a Theme by John Blow (5)
- Mêlée Fantasque (3)
- Men of Two Worlds (4 excerpts, 1945) (3)
- Morning Heroes (3)
- Music for Strings (7)
- Oboe Quintet, Op. 21 (8)
- Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks' (4)
- Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano (9)
- Piano Concerto in B flat major (7)
- Piano Quartet, Op. 18 (3)
- Piano Sonata (6)
- Rout (3)
- Royal Fanfare (3)
- String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major (3)
- String Quartet No. 2 in F minor (5)
- Suite for Piano (4)
- The Beatitudes (3)
- The Enchantress (3)
- The Rout Trot (4)
- Theme and Cadenza for violin (4)
- Things to Come - Suite (12)
- Things to Come: March (5)
- Triptych (4)
- Two Nursery Rhymes (3)
- Viola Sonata Op. 91 (7)
- Welcome the Queen (13)
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