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CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 470 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAY, See also:FREDERIC (1838–1889) , See also:English musical composer, the son of See also:James Clay, M.P., who was celebrated as a player of See also:whist and a writer on that subject, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:August 1838. He studied See also:music under W. B. See also:Molique in Paris and See also:Moritz See also:Hauptmann at See also:Leipzig. With the exception of a few songs and two cantatas, The Knights of the See also:Cross (1866) and Lalla Rookh (1877),—the latter of which contained his well-known See also:song " I'll sing thee songs of Araby,"—his compositions were all written for the See also:stage. Clay's first public See also:appearance was made with an See also:opera entitled See also:Court and Cottage, the libretto of which was written by Tom See also:Taylor. This was produced at Covent See also:Garden in 1862, and was followed by See also:Constance (1865), Ages Ago (1869), and Princess Toto (1875), to name only three of many See also:works which have See also:long since been forgotten. The last two, which were written to libretti by W. S.. See also:Gilbert, are among Clay's most tuneful and most attractive works. He wrote See also:part of the music for Babil and Bijou (1872) and The See also:Black Crook (1873), both of which were produced at the See also:Alhambra. He also furnished incidental music See also:fox a revival of Twelfth See also:Night and for the See also:production of James See also:Albery's Oriana.

His last works, The Merry Duchess (1883) and The See also:

Golden See also:Ring (1883), the latter written for the reopening of the Alhambra, which had been burned to the ground the See also:year before, showed an advance upon his previous See also:work, and rendered all the more regrettable the stroke of See also:paralysis which crippled his See also:physical and See also:mental-energies during the last few years of his See also:life. He died at See also:Great See also:Marlow on the 24th of See also:November 1889.

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