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2 unusual facts about Arthur Sullivan


George Edward Gouraud

In 1888, Thomas Edison sent his "Perfected" Phonograph to Gouraud in London and on 14 August 1888, Gouraud introduced the phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made.

William Russell Flint

Savoy Operas is a collection of four opera librettos by W. S. Gilbert that had been set to music by Arthur Sullivan, originally published 1909.


Alfred de Glehn

Their home in Sydenham, London was the rendezvous of artistic, literary and musical people: George Grove, Arthur Sullivan, Jenny Lind and J. R. Green.

Bertram Luard-Selby

At the Three Choirs Festival of 1877, Luard-Selby's Kyrie Eleison was premiered at a concert together with two other novelties, Sullivan's In Memoriam and Brahms's German Requiem.

Duncraig, Western Australia

Gilbert Road meets Sullivan Road there, near Savoy Place, Pinafore Court, and streets named after 30 characters from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

H.M.S. Parliament

Published in 1880, it adapted the music of H.M.S. Pinafore by Arthur Sullivan to a new libretto by William H. Fuller (who was also the librettist for The Unspecific Scandal).

Henrietta Hodson

That year she also created the lead role of Eliza Smith in Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo in London.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

Hollywood Pinafore

Hollywood Pinafore, or The Lad Who Loved a Salary is a musical comedy in two acts by George S. Kaufman, with music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

Royal Gallery of Illustration

But the German Reeds were able to attract fine young composers such as Molloy, Clay, Sullivan and Cellier, the best scenic designers for their tiny stage, and the best young writers from Punch and Fun magazines.

See America First

The theatre critic for the New York Dramatic Mirror observed, "The lyrics are studiously copied after the Gilbertian pattern in the long and complicated rhyme effects achieved. The music, however, gives the impression that its composer, after the first hour, gave up the task of recreating a Sullivan atmosphere, preferring to seek his inspiration in our own George M. Cohan," whose musical style Porter intentionally had been trying to emulate.

The Winsford E-ACT Academy

The Academy has four houses which, as a Specialist Music School, are named after English composers, Britten, Purcell,Elgar and Sullivan.


see also

Frederic Sullivan

Frederic Richard Sullivan, son of Fred Sullivan and nephew of Arthur Sullivan

Indre Viskontas

Viskontas has performed as a soprano for numerous roles, including Beth in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Kate in John Estacio’s Frobisher, Heart's Desire in Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia and Aurelia in Purcell's Dioclesian.