Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

(1889-1960)

"Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo" (1909), oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm, of the painter Henri Rousseau, contemporary of Gibbs (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)

The musician Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Great Baddow on the 10th August 1889, the same year of the composers Behrend, Cotapos (Baeza), Davico, Deshevov, Gilardi, Henry, Jeremiás, La Prade, Loomis, Ludwig, Paunovic, Petrzelka, Sirola, Toye. Died in Chelmsford on the 12nd May 1960

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

OPERE

"The Blue Peter" was performed in Londra in 1923 (Royal College of Music)

"The Sting of Love" has been represented in 1926

"When One Isn't There" has been represented in 1927

"Twelfth Night" has been represented in 1947

"The Great Bell of Burley" was performed in 1952

LIEDER

"For Music" (There be none of Beauty's daughters), published in 1937, text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"As I lay in the early sun", text of Edward Shanks (1892-1953)

"The fields are full" (The fields are full of summer still), text of Edward Shanks (1892-1953)

"The Sleeping Beauty", text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Tom o' Bedlam", Anonymous

"Dream-Pedlary" (If there were dreams to sell), published in 1923, text of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)

"Mistletoe", text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"The splendour falls" (The splendour falls on castle walls), text of Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"Hypochondriacus", text of Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

"Ann's Cradle Song", op. 20 n. 1, published in 1919, text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"La belle dame sans merci", published in 1931, text of John Keats (1795-1821)

"Tiger, Tiger" (Tiger! Tiger! burning bright), published in 1932, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"The Golden Ray", op. 111 n. 4, published in 1946, text of B. Martin

"Araby", op. 20 n. 2, published in 1919, text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"The Mad Prince", text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Five Eyes", op. 15 n. 2, text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Sailing Homeward", text of Arthur Waley (1889-1969)

"Abel Wright", op. 111 n. 2, published in 1946, text of B. Martin

"The Wanderer", text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"The Oxen", text of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

"How can the heart forget her?", Anonymous

"The Ballad of Semmerwater", text of Sir William Watson (1858-1935)

"The Birch Tree", text of Georgina Mase

"Nod", text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Covent Garden", published in 1923, text of Eileen Carfrae (c1914)

"By a Bier-Side", text of John Masefield (1878-1967)

"When I was one-and-twenty", text of Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

"Proud Maisie", text of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

"Nightfall", text of Harry Dawson

"The Bells", op. 14 n. 2, published in 1918, text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Silver", op. 30 n. 2, published in 1920, text of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Hidden Treasure", op. 111 n. 1, published in 1946, text of B. Martin

"In the highlands", text of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"Devotion" (Fain would I change that note), text of Tobias Hume (c1569-1645)

"Summer Night", text of Margery Agrell (1894-1991)

"To one who passed whistling through the night", text of Margery Agrell (1894-1991)

"The Tiger-Lily", text of Dorothy Pleydell-Bouverie

"Toll the Bell", op. 111 n. 3, published in 1946, text of B. Martin

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