Biography
Arthur Sullivan was born in London in 1842 and trained as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, at the Royal Academy of Music, and from 1858 to 1861 at the Leipzig Conservatory under Ignaz Moscheles and Carl Reinecke. His incidental music for Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (1862) established him as a leading English composer of his generation. From 1875 he collaborated with dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert and producer Richard D'Oyly Carte, composing fourteen comic operas by 1896 – among them "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Mikado" and "The Gondoliers" – which became known as the Savoy Operas. In 1883 he became the first composer knighted for services to English music. Alongside his stage works Sullivan wrote oratorios, orchestral works and more than a hundred songs, as well as his only full-length grand opera, "Ivanhoe" (1891); he died in London in 1900.
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