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"A Mass of Life" is a large-scale choral work composed by Frederick Delius, completed in 1905. The piece sets German texts from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" to music, distinguishing it as a rare secular, philosophically themed oratorio. The composition is divide...

A large choral work (1905) by Frederick Delius setting texts from Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, scored for soloists, double chorus, and large orchestra.

Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 1 is a chamber work for violin and piano developed between 1905 and 1914 and first performed in Manchester in 1915. Although designated as the first of his three numbered violin sonatas, it belongs to his mature period and treats the two instruments as closely in...

Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 3 is a late chamber work for violin and piano completed in 1930 and first performed in London that year. It was written near the end of the composer's life, when illness had left him unable to write unaided and he was working with the assistance of Eric Fenby. Th...

The Tudor-era ballet *Romeo and Juliet* portrays the tragic love story of two young heirs from feuding families through stylized movement, depicting their passionate romance and ultimately, their devastating deaths amidst elaborate costumes and opulent stage design.

The Violin Sonata No. 2 is a chamber music piece for violin and piano composed by the English composer Frederick Delius. Completed in the 1920s, the work reflects Delius's signature late-Romantic and impressionistic musical style, characterized by its chromaticism and evocative harmonic language. It...

English composer Frederick Delius's first Violin Sonata (1905-06) exemplifies his lyrical, Impressionist-influenced style that became characteristic of his chamber music output.

Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 3 is a 1930 late work for violin and piano, dictated with Eric Fenby as Delius's blindness advanced.

Frederick Delius's Piano Concerto in C minor, originally composed in 1897 and revised in 1906 into a single movement, reflects his lyrical impressionist-influenced language.

Delius's third and final Violin Sonata (1930, revised 1932) was one of the last works completed before his death and demonstrates his mature Impressionist harmonic language.

Frederick Delius composed his second Violin Sonata in 1930, one of his late works that continues the introspective, atmospheric style found throughout his chamber music.

Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 1 is a 1905-14 work for violin and piano, first performed in Manchester in 1915 and first of three numbered sonatas.

Delius's second violin sonata (1923) is a rhapsodic, impressionistic piece composed during his productive post-war period, the middle work of his three sonatas.

Delius's third violin sonata (1930) was composed while the English composer was blind and paralyzed, dictated note by note to his amanuensis Eric Fenby.

Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata No. 2 is a 1923 violin-and-piano sonata, first performed in London in 1924 as his middle numbered sonata.