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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-11 09:32 PM
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The Glade (air freshener) commercial Xmas music, actually DELIUS Winter music
Edited on Thu Dec-01-11 10:18 PM by UTUSN
I, who know TCHAIKOVSKY personally, would have sworn this delightful stuff was his, but it is by one Frederick DELIUS, somebody who turns out to be hard to pin down: An Englishman but of Dutch, or is it German, heritage, oddly spending major time in FLORIDA of all places, near Jacksonville, where he actually absorbed some of his music apprenticeship, before ending up somewhere in Germany under the influence of those but moreso GRIEG.

The complete work is “Three Small Tone Poems,” this being “Winter Night” (“Sleigh Ride”). The other two are “Summer Evening“ and “Spring Morning.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BF4A4Kito

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Delius

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation, where he neglected his managerial duties; influenced by African-American music, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived (except during the First World War) for the rest of their lives.

Delius's first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s. In Delius's native Britain, it was 1907 before his music made regular appearances in concert programmes, after Thomas Beecham took it up. Beecham staged Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 and mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works. After 1918 Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris. He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby.

The lyricism in Delius's early compositions reflected both the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner. As his skills matured, he developed a style uniquely his own, characterised by his individual orchestration and his uses of chromatic harmony. Delius's music has been only intermittently popular, and often subject to critical attacks. The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composer's life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.

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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-11 09:36 PM
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1. I love Delius.
I've had to pull the car over to the side of the road and stop driving when our local classical station plays his works. (Eyes blear up.)
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