Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (born August 10, 1889 in Great Baddow , Essex , † May 12, 1960 in Chelmsford ) was an English composer.
He studied at Trinity College , Cambridge with Edward Dent and at the Royal College of Music with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams . From 1921 to 1939 he was a composition and theory teacher at the Royal College of Music. He was also Vice President of the British Federation of Music Festivals from 1937 to 1952 .
Gibbs composed an opera , an operetta and several plays, several cantatas , three symphonies , a concertino for piano and string orchestra, five string quartets , a violin sonata, piano pieces, choirs and songs , many of them based on texts by his friend Walter de la Mare .
Works
- The White Devil , incidental music, 1920
- The Betrothal , incidental music for the play by Maurice Maeterlinck , 1921
- The Blue Peter , comic opera
- Midsummer Madness , Harlequinade
- Mr Cornelius , operetta
- The Birth of Christ , Cantata, 1930
- Deborak and Barak , cantata
- Fancy Dress , suite for piano and orchestra
- Dale and Fell , suite
- Threnody for string quartet and string orchestra
- In the High Alps , piano suite, 1921
- Lakeland Pictures Eight Preludes for Piano, 1940
- Symphony in E major , 1931–32
- Odysseus , choral symphony, premiered in 1946
- Westmorland , Third Symphony, 1944
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SURNAME | Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Baddow , Essex |
DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1960 |
Place of death | Chelmsford |