Armstrong Gibbs

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs ( born August 10, 1889 in Great Baddow, Essex, † May 12 1960 in Chelmsford ) was an English composer.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge with Edward Dent and the Royal College of Music with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. From 1921 to 1939 he was composition and theory teacher at the Royal College of Music. He was also from 1937 to 1952 Vice- President of the British Federation of Music Festivals.

Gibbs composed an opera, operetta, and several theatrical music, several cantatas, three symphonies, a concertino for piano and strings, five string quartets, a violin sonata, piano pieces, choruses and songs, many of them on texts his friend Walter de la Mare.

Works

• The White Devil, incidental music, 1920
• The Betrothal, incidental music to the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1921
• The Blue Peter, comic opera
• Midsummer Madness, Harlekinade
• Mr Cornelius, operetta
• The Birth of Christ, cantata, 1930
• Deborak and Barak, cantata
• Fancy Dress, Suite for Piano and Orchestra
• Dale and Fell, Suite
• Threnody for String Quartet and String Orchestra
• In the High Alps, Piano Suite, 1921
• Lakeland Pictures Eight Preludes for Piano, 1940
• Symphony in E Major, 1931-32
• Odysseus, choral symphony, world premiere 1946
• Westmorland, Third Symphony, 1944

• Composer
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Briton
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1960
• Man