Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers: The Sacred Music of Arthur Sullivan

by Ian Bradley

Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas, However, Sullivan was far from being simply a composer of light operettas. At the height of his fame and popularity in late Victorian Britain, Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Yet despite his contemporary popularity and enduring legacy, little attention has been given to Sullivan's sacred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334044219
• ISBN13: 9780334044215
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"