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Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish conductor and composer
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Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
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Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
English composer
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Charles Groves
Charles Groves
British conductor
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Malcolm Sargent
Malcolm Sargent
English conductor, organist and composer
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Granville Bantock
Granville Bantock
British composer and conductor
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Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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Edgar Bainton
Edgar Bainton
British composer
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Eric Coates
Eric Coates
British composer
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Howard Blake
Howard Blake
composer
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Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss
British composer
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
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William Walton
William Walton
English composer
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan
Victorian-era theatrical partnership
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Hans Richter
Hans Richter
Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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John Barbirolli
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
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Albert Coates
Albert Coates
British conductor
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
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Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
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Tolib Shakhidi
Tolib Shakhidi
Soviet composer
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Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult
English conductor
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Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius
English composer
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Elena Langer
Elena Langer
British composer
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Albert Roussel
Albert Roussel
French composer
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Joseph Holbrooke
Joseph Holbrooke
English composer, conductor, and pianist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
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Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton
English composer of opera and choral music
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Louis Spohr
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
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Ignaz Brüll
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician
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Henry Kimball Hadley
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
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Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
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Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst
English composer
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Alfred Cellier
Alfred Cellier
British composer and conductor
Edward German
English musician and composer

Edward German

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English musician and composer
Genres
Awards Received
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Knight Bachelor
Sir Edward German

Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. Some of his light operas, especially Merrie England, are still performed.

As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra of Whitchurch, Shropshire. He also began to compose music. While performing and teaching violin at the Royal Academy of Music, German began to build a career as a composer in the mid-1880s, writing serious music as well as light opera. In 1888, he became music director of Globe Theatre in London. He provided popular incidental music for many productions at the Globe and other London theatres, including Richard III (1889), Henry VIII (1892) and Nell Gwynn (1900). He also wrote symphonies, orchestral suites, symphonic poems and other works. He also wrote a considerable body of songs, piano music, and symphonic suites and other concert music, of which his Welsh Rhapsody (1904) is perhaps best known.

German was engaged to finish The Emerald Isle after the death of Arthur Sullivan in 1900, the success of which led to more comic operas, including Merrie England (1902) and Tom Jones (1907). He also wrote the Just So Song Book in 1903 to Rudyard Kipling's texts and continued to write orchestral music. German wrote little new music of his own after 1912, but he continued to conduct until 1928, the year in which he was knighted.