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Roger Quilter
Born: November 1, 1877; Brighton, England
Died: September 21, 1953; London, England
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English composer Roger Quilter remains known primarily for his distinguished art song output, although he also produced choral, instrumental, and stage works. He had to work hard at composition, for it never came naturally, but his output shows a composer with exceptional sensitivity and seemingly effortless grace. Indeed, he was a fan of light and graceful music, from Schubert to Maude Valérie White to Gershwin. Quilter never had to make a
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(7) Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: Fair house of joy (wds. Anon) (1)
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(The) Arnold Book of Old Songs: No. 1, Drink to me only with thine eyes (wds Jonson) (1)
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(The) Arnold Book of Old Songs: No. 2, Over the mountains (wds from Percy's 'Reliques') (1)
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(The) Arnold Book of Old Songs: Ye banks and braes (wds R Burns) (1)
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A Children's Overture, Op. 17 (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Barbara Allen (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Ca' the yowes to the knowes (2)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Charlie is my darling (3)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Joli mois de mai (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: L'amour de moi (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Le pauvre laboureur (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: My Lady Greensleeves (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Oh! 'tis sweet to think (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Since first I saw your face (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: The Ash Grove (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: The Jolly Miller (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Three Poor Mariners (1)
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Arnold Book of Old Songs: Ye banks and braes (5)
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As you Like It: Suite, Op. 21 (1)
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At the Close of Day (1)
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Barbara Allen (2)
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By a fountainside (1)
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Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (Roger Quilter) (1)
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Child Songs (4), Op. 5: no 1, A Good Child (1)
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Child Songs (4), Op. 5: no 2, The Lamplighter (1)
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Child Songs (4), Op. 5: no 3, Where go the boats? (4)
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Children Overture (1)
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Come Lady-Day (1)
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Country Pieces (4), Op. 27 (3)
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Daisies after Rain (1)
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Drink to me only with thine eyes (9)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12 (4)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 1, Weep you no more (7)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 2, My Life's Delight (1)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 3, Damask Roses (1)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 4, Faithless Shepherdess (2)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 5, Brown is my Love (1)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 6, By a Fountainside (1)
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Elizabethan Lyrics (7), Op. 12: no 7, Fair house of joy (4)
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English Dances (3), Op. 11 (2)
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English Love Lyrics (5), Op. 24: no 1, There be none of Beauty's daughters (1)
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English Love Lyrics (5), Op. 24: no 3, Go, lovely rose (8)
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English Love Lyrics (5), Op. 24: no 4, O, the month of May (2)
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Fantasy Quintet "Gipsy Life" (1)
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Go, Lovely Rose for voice & piano, Op. 24/3 (1)
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Good Morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine’s Day (1)
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Hark! Hark! the lark (2)
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Hey ho! The wind and the rain, for voice & piano, Op. 23/5 (1)
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I Arise from Dreams of Thee, Op. 29 (2)
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I got a robe (1)
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Impressions (2) for Piano, Op. 19 (2)
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It was a lover and his lass, for 2 voices & piano (1)
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Jacobean Lyrics (5), Op. 28: no 3, I dare not ask a kiss (1)
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Julia: Concert Waltz "Rosmé" (1)
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June (1)
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Love at the Inn: If Love should pass me by (1)
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Love at the Inn: Little Moth (1)
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Love at the Inn: Love calls through the summer night (2)
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Love calls through the summer night (1)
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Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1 (3)
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Music and Moonlight (1)
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Music, When Soft Voices die for voice & piano, Op. 25/5 (2)
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My heart adorned with thee (1)
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (3)
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2 (4)
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O mistress mine, for voice & piano, Op. 6/2 (1)
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Oh! 'Tis Sweet to Think (Roger Quilter) (1)
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Orpheus with his lute, for voice & piano, Op. 32/1 (1)
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Over the Mountains (3)
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Pastoral Songs (3), Op. 22 (1)
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Pastoral Songs (3), Op. 22: no 1, I will go with my father a-ploughing (1)
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Pieces (3) for Piano, Op. 16 (2)
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September Songs (2), Op. 18: no 5, Through the Sunny Garden (1)
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September Songs (2), Op. 18: no 6, The Valley and the Hill (1)
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Shakespeare Songs (3), Op. 6 (4)
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Shakespeare Songs (3), Op. 6: no 1, Come away, Death (4)
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Shakespeare Songs (3), Op. 6: no 2, O mistress mine (4)
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Shakespeare Songs (3), Op. 6: no 3, Blow, blow, thou winter wind (4)
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Shakespeare Songs (4), Op. 30 (2)
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Shakespeare Songs (4), Op. 30: no 1, Who is Silvia? (1)
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Shakespeare Songs (4), Op. 30: no 2, When Daffodils begin to peer (2)
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Shakespeare Songs (4), Op. 30: no 3, How should I your true.. (2)
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Shakespeare Songs (4), Op. 30: no 4, Sigh no more, ladies (1)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23 (1)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23: no 1, Fear no more the heat (2)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23: no 2, Under the Greenwood Tree (1)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23: no 3, It was a lover and his lass (5)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23: no 4, Take, O take those lips away (5)
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Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23: no 5, Hey, ho, the wind and the rain (2)
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Slumber Song (2)
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Songs (2), Op. 32 (1)
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Songs (2), Op. 32: Orpheus with his Lute (1)
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Songs (3) of William Blake, Op. 20 (1)
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Songs (3) of William Blake, Op. 20: no 1, Dream Valley (3)
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Songs (3), Op. 15: no 1, Cuckoo Song (1)
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Songs (3), Op. 15: no 2, Amaryllis at the fountain (3)
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Songs (3), Op. 15: no 3, Blossom Time (1)
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Songs (3), Op. 3: no 1, Love's Philosophy (19)
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Songs (3), Op. 3: no 2, Now sleeps the crimson petal (22)
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Songs (3), Op. 3: no 3, Fill a glass with golden wine (1)
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Songs (4) of Mirza Schaffy, Op. 2: no 1, Neig' schön' Knospe Dich zu dir (1)
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Songs (4) of Mirza Schaffy, Op. 2: no 2, Und was die Sonne glüht (1)
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Songs (4) of Mirza Schaffy, Op. 2: no 3, Ich fühle Deinen Odem (1)
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Songs (4) of Mirza Schaffy, Op. 2: no 4, Die helle Sonne Leuchtet (1)
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Songs (4) of Sorrow, Op. 10: no 2, Passing Dreams (1)
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Songs (4) of Sorrow, Op. 10: no 3, A Land of Silence (2)
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Songs (4) of the Sea, Op. 1 (1)
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Songs (4), Op. 14 (1)
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Songs (4), Op. 14: no 1, Autumn Evening (4)
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Songs (4), Op. 14: no 3, A Last Year's Rose (2)
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Songs (6), Op. 25: no 3, An Old Carol (3)
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Songs (6), Op. 25: no 4, Arab Love Song (3)
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Songs (6), Op. 25: no 5, Music, when Soft Voices Die (8)
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Songs (6), Op. 25: no 6, In the Bud of the Morning-o (1)
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Spring is at the door, Op. 18 no 4 (1)
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Studies (3) for Piano, Op. 4 (2)
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Summer Sunset (1)
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The Ash Grove (Roger Quilter) (1)
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The Cradle in Bethlehem (1)
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The Fuchsia Tree (1)
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The Passing Bell (1)
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The Rake: Suite (1)
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The Rose of Tralee (1)
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The Starlings (1)
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To a Harebell by a Graveside (1)
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To Julia, Op. 8 (3)
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To Julia, Op. 8: no 2, The Maiden Blush (1)
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To Julia, Op. 8: no 3, To Daisies (2)
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To Julia, Op. 8: To Daisies (1)
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What will you do, love (1)
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Where the Rainbow Ends: Suite (3)
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Windy Nights (1)
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Biography |
by Rachael Unite
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English composer Roger Quilter remains known primarily for his distinguished art song output, although he also produced choral, instrumental, and stage works. He had to work hard at composition, for it never came naturally, but his output shows a composer with exceptional sensitivity and seemingly effortless grace. Indeed, he was a fan of light and graceful music, from Schubert to Maude Valérie White to Gershwin. Quilter never had to make a living, but he was a philanthropic artist, helping to found and administer the Musicians' Benevolent Fund, as well as privately aiding his colleagues. After a productive and benevolent artistic life, Quilter experienced a period of mental decline that ended with his death.
Quilter was educated at prestigious Eton College, later going abroad to Germany to study with Ivan Knorr at Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatory. All students in Frankfurt in the 1890s, Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, Norman O'Neill, Balfour Gardiner, and Quilter became known as the "Frankfurt Group." As a song composer, Quilter became well established in 1900 when Denham Price gave a performance of his Songs of the Sea at the Crystal Palace in London, and also when tenor Gervase Elwes premiered To Julia in 1905 and Seven Elizabethan Lyrics in 1908. On occasion Quilter would accompany his songs in public performance, and he did record many of them with close friend and colleague Mark Raphael.
His only attempt at opera, Julia (1936), was a failure, but several pieces from it were extracted and published as separate songs (e.g., Love at the Inn). His light orchestral music was more successful, including A Children's Overture (1919), written for the Promenade Concerts and conducted by Henry Wood. That work and Quilter's popular incidental music for the fairy play Where the Rainbow Ends (1911) were both inspired by Walter Crane's illustrated book of nursery rhymes, Baby's Opera. Still, it is his songs (more than 100 of them) upon which Quilter's reputation was based, and for which he will continued to be remembered quite fondly. |
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