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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Gilbert and Sullivan, Operettas, Arthur Sullivan, Savoy opera, W. S. Gilbert, Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan, International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, English National Opera, Major-General's Song, The Princess, List of W. S. Gilbert dramatic works, Edwardian Musical Comedy, Topsy-Turvy, German Reed Entertainment, W. S. Gilbert bibliography, Moscow, Cheryomushki, Chichibu, Saitama, List of patter songs, List of operetta composers, The Pirates of Penzance, The Colonel, Grim's Dyke, Short, sharp shock, Fun, List of musical compositions by Arthur Sullivan, East Riddlesden Hall, Paganini, Arshin Mal Alan, Hanky-Panky cocktail, Grand Poobah, I granatieri, D'Oyly Carte Island, Sullivan Glacier, Gilbert Glacier, Mikado Glacier, Mount Pinafore. Excerpt: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 - 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such continually popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan's artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces. Apart from his comic operas with Gilbert, Sullivan is best known for some of his hymns and parlour songs, including "Onward Christian Soldiers," "The Absent-Minded Beggar," and "The Lost Chord." His most critically praised pieces include his Irish Symphony, his Overture di Ballo, The Martyr of Antioch, The Golden Legend, and, of the Savoy Operas, The Yeomen of the Guard. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, was initially highly successful, but it has been little heard since his death. Sullivan at age 18, studying at LeipzigS...
