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