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CELLIER, ALFRED (1844-1891)

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CELLIER, See also:ALFRED (1844-1891) , See also:English musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Hackney on the 1st of See also:December 1844. From 1855 to 186o he was a chorister at the See also:Chapel Royal, St See also:James's, under the Rev. See also:Thomas Helmore, where See also:Arthur See also:Sullivan was one of his youthful colleagues. His first See also:appointment was that of organist at All See also:Saints' See also:church, See also:Blackheath (1862). In 1866 he succeeded Dr Chipp as director of the See also:Ulster See also:Hall concerts, See also:Belfast, at the same See also:time acting as conductor of the Belfast Philharmonic Society. In 1868 he returned to See also:London as organist of St See also:Alban's, See also:Holborn. From 1871 to 1875 he was conductor at the See also:Prince's See also:theatre, See also:Manchester; and from 1877 to 1879 at various London theatres. During this See also:period he composed many comic operas and operettas, of which the most successful was The See also:Sultan of Mocha, which was produced at Manchester in 1874, in London at the St James's theatre in 1876, and revived at the Strand theatre in 1887. In x88o Cellier visited See also:America, producing a musical version of See also:Longfellow's Masque of See also:Pandora at See also:Boston (1881). In 1883 his setting of See also:Gray's See also:Elegy in the See also:form of a See also:cantata was produced at the See also:Leeds Festival. In 1886 he won the See also:great success of his See also:life in Dorothy, a comic See also:opera written to a libretto by B. C.

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Stephenson, which was produced at the Gaiety theatre on the 25th of See also:September 1886, and, transferred first to the Prince of See also:Wales theatre and subsequently to the Lyric theatre, ran until See also:April 1889. See also:Doris (1889), and The Mountebanks, which was produced in See also:January 1892, a few days after the composer's See also:death, were less successful. Cellier owed much to the See also:influence of See also:Sir Arthur Sullivan. He had little of the latter's See also:humour and vivacity, but he was a fertile melodist, and his See also:writing is invariably distinguished by elegance and refinement. He died in London on the 28th of December 1891.

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