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Frederick Delius - 1862-1934 - An English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. There he soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.
In his later years Delius became blind and severely disabled, unable to complete his life's work. In 1928 a music teacher and fellow Yorkshireman from Scarborough offered his services as an amanuensis to the blind and paralyzed composer. This was to allow a radiant Indian Summer in the final years at Grez.. Composing continued with the aid of Eric Fenby taking down the notes, offering his complete devotion to Delius. Fenby also enabled the completing, reshaping and promoting of so much of Delius' previous work. The story has been beautifully told in Ken Russell's iconic film 'A Song of Summer' available on this channel
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North Country Sketches composed 1913 - 1914, is for me a seasonal musical tone picture of the Yorkshire dale and moorland countryside, over which Delius spent many hours walking or riding during his childhood. Delius retained his connections with Yorkshire into adolescence and beyond, he was an avid supporter and keen participant of cricket in and around Scarborough.
Delius was a true poet of nature, all its moods portrayed musically by his genius. .
On this video the full work, including all four movements as follows:-
Autumn
Winter Landscape
Dance
The March of Spring
Album Info:-
North Country Sketches
Frederick Delius.
North Country Sketches.
The Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera - Sir Charles Mackerras
Argo
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