Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour, compr. b. London, May 13, 1842; d. there, Nov. 22, 1900. Chorister at Chapel Royal under Helmore; first Mendel ohn Scholar at Royal Acad. Mus., pupil of Go and Bennett; studied at Leipzig with Moscheles, Hauptmann, etc.; orgt. in London; condr. Promenade concerts at Covent Garden 1878-79; principal Natl Training School 1876-81; knighted 1883; composed songs (Lost Chord, The Long Day Closes), oratorios (Prodigal Son, Golden Legend incidental music ), to Tempest ana Merchant of Venice, a grand opera, Ivanhoe, 1891; great popularity, however, rests on long senes of comic operas produced chiefly at the Savoy Theatre, many of them to words by W. S. Gilbert, among which may be named Trial by Jury 1875, H. S Pinafore which had unequaled popularity in England and U. S. (whither S. 245 SDPPf came 1879), Pirates of Penzance 1880, Patience 1881, Mikado 1885; The Emerald Isle completed by E German, 1901; distinguishing features of these operettas are unity of spirit between compr. and librettist, unfailing gaiety and variety of rhythm and melody, and at same time refinement of educated musical taste. Suppe (soop-pa), Franz von [real name Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppe Demelli], compr. b. Spalato, Dalmatia, Apr. 18, 1820; d. Vienna, May 22, 1895. Played the flute and composed early; while student of philosophy at Padua, studied mus. with Cigala and Ferrari, later at Vienna Cons, with Sechter and Seyfried; theatre condr. at Pre buig, Baden, and Vienna 1865- 95; produced great number of operettas and musical farces and burlesques; chiefly known out of Germany by Fatinitza 1876, Boccaccio 1879, and overture to Poet and Peasant