Albert Ketèlbey

Albert William Ketèlbey [ ɔ ː bət wɪl jəm kətelbi ː ] ( born August 9, 1875 in Birmingham, † November 26, 1959 in Cowes, Isle of Wight ), was an English composer and conductor.

Life

Albert Ketèlbey composed age of eleven, a piano sonata, which praised Edward Elgar, and won thirteen years a scholarship to study composition at the Trinity College of Music in London. In 1891 he became organist at the Church of St. John at Wimbledon in 1897 and the musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre, in addition also the music director of the Columbia Gramophone. Soon, he published his first compositions, partly under the pseudonyms Raoul Clifford and Anton Vodorinski, and created institutions of piano works by various composers.

Ketèlbey became famous for his short, very picturesque orchestral pieces of the "Light Music", but he also composed a large number of accompanying background music for silent films. As a conductor he has worked throughout Europe. The success of his works later allowed him a comfortable life in retirement on the Isle of Wight; there he indulged in addition to composing, his other passion, playing billiards.

Works

• Orchestral works The Phantom Melody (1912 )
• In a Monastery Garden (1915 )
• In the Moonlight (1919)
• Souvenir de tendresse (1919)
• In a Persian Market ( In a Persian Market) (1920 )
• Wedgwood Blue ( 1920)
• Bells Across the Meadows ( 1921)
• Gallantry ( 1921)
• In a Chinese Temple Garden (1923 )
• Sanctuary of the Heart ( 1924)
• Cockney Suite ( 1924)
• Chal Romano. Overture ( 1924)
• Suite Romantique (1924 )
• By the Blue Hawaiian Waters (1927 )
• 3 Fanciful Etchings (1928 )
• The Clock and the Dresden Figures ( 1930)
• In the Mystic Land of Egypt (1931 )

• Impromptu No. 1
• Reflections
• Mirror Dance
• Sunset Glow
• The Shadow of Dreams
• Angelo d' amore
• Rhapsody Sérieuse
• Légende Triste
• Pensées Joyeuses
• The Pilgrims
• A Dream Picture
• Prelude in C sharp minor
• Valse brillante

• The Wonder Worker ( 1900)