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3 unusual facts about Jelka Rosen


Alexandre Barjansky

And Jelka Delius wrote: "He looks extraordinary when he plays, so ecstatic with a delicate, sensitive face and hair like an Italian primitive."

Anthony Bernard

Anthony Bernard conducted the first recording to be released of Frederick Delius's Sea Drift (1929) with the baritone Roy Henderson and the New English Symphony Orchestra, and was praised by the composer's wife Jelka for his conducting.

Jelka Rosen

In 1897, on his return from Florida, he moved into her Grez-sur-Loing house, owned by her and her mother, and they married in September 1903.


A Village Romeo and Juliet

The composer himself, with his wife Jelka, wrote the English-language libretto based on the short story Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe by the Swiss author Gottfried Keller.


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