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"The Lost Chord" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness. The manuscript is dated 13 January 1877; Fred Sullivan died five days later. The lyric was written as a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord", published in 1860 in The English Woman's Journal. [1]
The Melbourne Herald, reviewing a line up of films from one evening, declared "the gem of the evening was undoubtedly the fine film entitled The Lost Chord. While the picture was being displayed, Miss Isabel Bull sang Sir Arthur Sullivan's popular song, with organ aceompaniment. The rendering, which was very effective, was loudly applauded." [15]
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Arthur Sullivan in 1888. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The following is a list of musical works by the English composer Arthur Sullivan, best known for his operatic collaborations with W. S. Gilbert. In all, Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, one song cycle, incidental music to several ...
"The Lost Chord" article specifically mentions Caruso. --Klein zach 09:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC) The mangling of the English is too much for a song being nominated at least in part because of the lyrics. However, we have an article on "The Lost Chord". This song very much does have a home, and I'm rather concerned about this "singer must be ...
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The Lost Chord" is the title of an 1877 song composed by Arthur Sullivan. The phrase arises from musical sounds, in particular purely harmonic or nearly harmonic chords that were "lost" to music with the change to twelve-tone equal tempered tuning, not yet completed at the time that Sullivan wrote the song.