Frederick Corder

Frederick Corder ( born January 26, 1852 in London, † August 21, 1932 ) was an English composer.

Corder studied at the Royal College of Music and with Ferdinand Hiller in Cologne. He was Kapellmeister in Brighton and since 1888 a teacher of composition at the Royal College of Music. Among his pupils were Hubert Bath, Alan Bush and Eric Coates.

Corder wrote next operettas, melodramas and operas one suite, one Nocturne and an overture for orchestra, the symphonic poem evening on the coast, an elegy for twenty-four violins, organ and several cantatas. Together with his wife Henriette Walford, he created the English translation of Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, his last stage work.

1897 commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London for a suite Roumanian was listed there.

Works

  • La Morte d' Arthur, opera, 1879
  • A Storm in a Teacup, operetta, 1882
  • The Bride of Triermain, cantata, 1886
  • Nordisa, romantic opera, 1887
  • The Sword of Argantyr, cantata, 1889
  • Prospero, concert overture

Writings

  • The Orchestra and how to write for it, 1895
  • Modern Composition, 1909
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