Arnold Bax

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Arnold Bax was a prominent early 20th-century British composer and pianist known for his richly orchestrated, late-Romantic symphonies and tone poems often inspired by Celtic and Irish themes.

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Arnold Bax canonical 11
Arnold Edward Trevor Bax 1
Sir Arnold Bax 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
human
orchestrator
awardReceived Knight Bachelor
burialPlace Cork
linked to: Cork city

St Finbarr’s Cemetery
causeOfDeath heart attack
composed score for the film "Oliver Twist" (1948)
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfAward 1937
dateOfBirth 1883-11-08
dateOfDeath 1953-10-03
educatedAt Royal Academy of Music
endTime 1953
ethnicGroup English
familyName Bax
fieldOfWork classical music
film music
symphonic composition
tone poems
fullName Arnold Edward Trevor Bax
linked to: Arnold Bax
genre art song
chamber music
choral music
orchestral music
piano music
symphonic music
givenName Arnold
hasSibling Clifford Bax
influencedBy Celtic literature
Claude Debussy
Irish mythology
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Russian music
William Butler Yeats
linked to: W.B. Yeats
languagesSpokenWritten English
French
German
Irish
marriedTo Elsita Sobrino
middleName Edward Trevor
movement Impressionism in music
late Romantic music
notableIdea use of Celtic and Irish themes in orchestral music
notableWork Clarinet Sonata
In the Faëry Hills
Into the Twilight
November Woods
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major
Piano Sonata No. 3 in G-sharp minor
String Quartet No. 1 in G major
String Quartet No. 2 in E minor
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major
Symphony No. 2 in E minor and C major
Symphony No. 3 in C major
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
Symphony No. 6 in E major
Symphony No. 7 in A-flat major
The Garden of Fand
The Happy Forest
Tintagel
Violin Sonata No. 1 in E major
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major
Winter Legends
occupation composer
music critic
pianist
professor of music
placeOfBirth England
London
linked to: London, England

Streatham
placeOfDeath Cork
County Cork
Ireland
positionHeld Master of the King’s Music
Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music
pseudonym Dermot O’Byrne
religion agnosticism
residence Ireland
London
linked to: London, England
sexOrGender male
startTime 1942
style chromatic harmony
lush late-Romantic idiom
rich orchestration

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Celtic Revival hasKeyFigure Arnold Bax
Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal positionHeldBy Sir Arnold Bax
linked to: Arnold Bax
Michael Endres recordedComposer Arnold Bax
Oliver Twist (1948 film) musicBy Arnold Bax
Arnold Bax fullName Arnold Edward Trevor Bax
linked to: Arnold Bax
Symphony No. 5 associatedWith Arnold Bax
Harriet Cohen closeFriend Arnold Bax
Harriet Cohen partner Arnold Bax