Frederick Delius

1862–1934 · Late Romantic · England

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He went to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage his father's orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.

• Il pleure dans mon cœur — 2 Songs, RT V/16 · No. 1
• Le ciel est par-dessus le toit — 2 Songs, RT V/16 · No. 2
• It was a Lover and His Lass — 4 Old English Lyrics · No. 1
• So White, so Soft, so Sweet is She — 4 Old English Lyrics · No. 2
• Spring, the Sweet Spring — 4 Old English Lyrics · No. 3
• To Daffodils — 4 Old English Lyrics · No. 4
• String Quartet in E minor — 4 movements