Leslie Stuart
Subtitle: composer of Florodora
By: Andrew Lamb
Edition: 1st.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781000143485; 9781003061663; 9781000101171; 9781000118124
Subjects: Composers; Biography; American Dramatists; Compositeurs; Biographies; Dramaturges américains; MUSIC / General
Description: Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London's most fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation. Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in British and American musical theater.
Notes: Previously issued in print: 2002.

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