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has always seemed dispensation of Providence
their parting a universal misfortune
az AUToBIOGRAPHICAL note.

has always seemed dispensation of Providence,
their parting universal misfortune.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICALN NOTE.
In an photographed sketch contributed to
English paper last year under the heading I'm the
Days of My YOUTH Cir Arthur said that the day
his Tempest music was performed was the great
day of his life He awoke the next morning 10
find himself famous. He continued:
After this determined to make my living as a
composer. I did a little teaching first, Just
make ends meet. but gave that up as soon as pos
chaels Church Chester Square, where l managed
6 9 gT very ch6 at M TF Sa we al
my wits end for tenors and bassos However. close
Station. and here 1 completed my choir! The Chief
superintendent threw himself heartily into my
and six bassos with small reserve , And capital al
H bf they off GTfy e Ted ntR Rey ms sh
practice. I used to think of them sometimes when
I was composing the music for The Pirates Of
But ali this time my mind was set on compost
ton. l was ready 10 undertake anything that
in my way. Symphonies, overtures, halets
certo for the viooncelio and eventually comic and
light operas-nothng came amiss 70 me and
as l could get the things published composed six
for thsn orpheus with HIS So Lutte The Willow
Song" and 20 Mistress Mine. were among them
Is Thine o Fair Maid! raised my price for these
songs and sold them outright for 10 guineas each.
the conclusion that it was pity for the publishers
Gomez was published the understanding that
to have royalty on every copy sold And
''Wfli He Gomez and never sold song outright
aterwaId After that published Mt res
Again and many other songs, and these all
Ny first dramatic venture a musical YER
sion Of BOX and Cox which Frank Burma nd ar. ar
and its great success are facts well known. and so
e sn a6au S s them o4 s asrs John Honghead
ho was At h4 tine the Of the SAFETY al g
pe6e %fed pa M for Il ooe Hee FPre e
and 9hsr o ea4ns Gde{ roN RS he Pn et that
most of the principals possessed voices with a
stricted my creative efforts But the piece
fairly successful all the same. 49,
Royalty Theatre for Selma Doaro. She was not
doing at al well and Mr. Carte meeting t5 Gi,h rt
sonnet hing which would give her little help
me the idea Of an operetta with the scene laid IN
court Of law and ne now PROPOSED that we sn1u6
hour l agreed and in few DAYS ne hT2ush M me
words music and ail@was completed in about
fortnight, and was Immediately put at the Roy
after night rows OF carriages drew up outside the
London Went to see it. The success was so great
that not long afterward Mr.. p'OyIy Carte arransed
light English opera and in 1871 Gilbert and wrote
The soccereT for him This piece was fopndHd bs on
had previously nuhlished The SGrcerer did fairy
cate Mr., Gilberts peculiar style They were not
After The sorcerer" came u NJ s Pipafo ss.
which was produced in May. 1878, and fell ra Their
fat at first. business was so unsa tisfactory IN
fact. that in July II determined to put up the
honce and bring the piece 70 an enc 5tsI t tLls
IRE began to fill 50 well that the notice was with
But; besides this the play had caught e on III IN
In @ a qEf9 eish heatr we're perf6rmns
II at the same time. and he words were , SO con
pose fine each time phrase from 'Pinaf0re was
used in general conversation. My dear OLD friend
with the ,Rariows of the best known families, in
q1ent sermon ni' with the mpresSive words For He
S Ia ia, ld M y ne iP!o great
silently placed It in Mr.. Barow's hand!
It is. perhaps, rather a strange fact that the
music to 'Itnafore," which was thought to be so
msrry and spontaneous. was written while l was
suffering agonies from cruel Illness ! wo' 70 com
pain When the naroxvsIn was pas I would
write little more. until the pain overw lelmed me me
tressinE conditions
Many honors were bestowed upon the popular
composer. He received the degree Of Doctor OF
Music from Cambridge in 1876 and from oxford In
1873 He was made a chevalier OF the Legion OF
Honor in 1873 He was chosen grand organist to
the Free Masons 1887. and made a correspond
ing member Of the Royal Musical Institute or
Florence in 1855 He knighted by the Queen
III 1888
His dramatic works include COX and Box" 1867;
The Contrabandista." 1857 '"ThesPS ISL; Trial
s7z P!nataTe lS3S The PIP Pirate; iss q
gore 1857: THE Yeomen Of the Guard. 1855; The
Gondoliers or the King OF Baratsria, 1889: The
grand opera 'Ivanhoe," 1891: "Haddon Hall ;. 1872;
1899: The Chieftain' "a revision of The Con
trabandistaO 1894; The Grand Duke. or The stat
utory Duel 1896: The Martyr of Antioch, "a
stage arrangement of the cantatal; 1888; the The
Beauty Stone 1898: TWO haets. Lille Enchante
1864. and Victorian and Merrie England, 1897. in
OF Venice Merry wives OF Windsor Henry
VII" Macbeth and King Arthur" Among his
other works the Oratorios and cantatas Ken
nworth." 1854 The Prodigal Son, 1853; ION Shore
and Sea" 1871; THE Light of the World" 1878;
The Martyr Of Antioch" 1885, and The Golden