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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan NPG Ax38148

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Watkins

Sullivan was a prodigy, composing his first anthem aged eight. He achieved early success as a composer of serious music; wrote Cox and Box, a comic operetta, 1866, and in 1871 first collaborated with W.S. Gilbert on Thespis. With Gilbert as librettist, Sullivan composed a series of triumphantly successful comic operas, performed after 1881 at the Savoy Theatre, built for them by Richard D'Oyly Carte. Sullivan also composed numerous songs, orchestral and sacred pieces, and one grand opera, Ivanhoe, 1891. He was knighted in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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