Sir arthur sullivan biography examples

The following is a list of musical works by the English composer Arthur Sullivan, best known for his operatic collaborations with W.

S. Gilbert. In all, Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, one song cycle, incidental music to several plays, numerous hymns and other church pieces, and a large body of songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces.^[1]

Sullivan began to compose music at an early age.

His first known composition, By the Waters of Babylon, dates from when he was eight years old. While a member of the prestigious boys' choir of the Chapel Royal, with the support of the choirmaster, Thomas Helmore, Sullivan composed several more anthems, and one of these, O, Israel, was Sullivan's first published composition, in ^[2] Sullivan attended the Royal Academy of Music from to and the Leipzig Conservatoir