Biography
Frederick Delius was born in 1862 as Fritz Albert Theodor Delius in Bradford, England, as the son of German parents. His impressionistically inflected style combines English pastoral with the harmony of the late nineteenth century into a unique, rhapsodic sound language. His opera A Village Romeo and Juliet after Gottfried Keller's novella Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe is considered his most significant stage work. Delius spent formative years on an orange plantation in Florida, where he heard the songs of African American workers that influenced his music. He spent most of his life in Grez-sur-Loing near Paris. In his last years he became blind and paralysed but continued dictating compositions with the help of his amanuensis Eric Fenby. Delius died in 1934 in Grez-sur-Loing.
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