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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arnold Bax canonical | 4 |
| Sir Arnold Bax | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8348891 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arnold Bax Context triple: [English Musical Renaissance, hasParticipant, Arnold Bax]
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A.
Granville Bantock
Granville Bantock was an English composer and conductor known for his richly orchestrated, often exotic and Celtic-inspired works and his influential role in early 20th-century British music.
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B.
Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra was a 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies and sacred choral music.
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C.
Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and tenure as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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D.
Charles Villiers Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford was an influential Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his choral and orchestral works and for mentoring many leading British composers.
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E.
George Butterworth
George Butterworth was an English composer and folk song collector best known for his orchestral work "The Banks of Green Willow" and his settings of A. E. Housman's poems, who was killed in action during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arnold Bax Target entity description: 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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A.
Granville Bantock
Granville Bantock was an English composer and conductor known for his richly orchestrated, often exotic and Celtic-inspired works and his influential role in early 20th-century British music.
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B.
Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra was a 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies and sacred choral music.
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C.
Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and tenure as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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D.
Charles Villiers Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford was an influential Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his choral and orchestral works and for mentoring many leading British composers.
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E.
George Butterworth
George Butterworth was an English composer and folk song collector best known for his orchestral work "The Banks of Green Willow" and his settings of A. E. Housman's poems, who was killed in action during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (89)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Bachelor ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Finbarr’s Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1953 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical music
ⓘ
film music ⓘ symphonic composition ⓘ tone poems ⓘ |
| fullName | Arnold Edward Trevor Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art song
ⓘ
chamber music ⓘ choral music ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ piano music ⓘ symphonic music ⓘ |
| givenName | Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Clifford Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Celtic literature
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Claude Debussy NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian music ⓘ William Butler Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWritten |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Irish ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Elsita Sobrino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Edward Trevor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Impressionism in music
NERFINISHED
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late Romantic music ⓘ |
| notableIdea | use of Celtic and Irish themes in orchestral music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clarinet Sonata
NERFINISHED
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In the Faëry Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Twilight NERFINISHED ⓘ November Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 3 in G-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 1 in G major NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 2 in E minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 2 in E minor and C major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 in C major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 6 in E major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 7 in A-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ The Garden of Fand NERFINISHED ⓘ The Happy Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Tintagel NERFINISHED ⓘ Violin Sonata No. 1 in E major NERFINISHED ⓘ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major NERFINISHED ⓘ Winter Legends NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
music critic ⓘ pianist ⓘ professor of music ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Streatham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Cork
NERFINISHED
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County Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Master of the King’s Music
NERFINISHED
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Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Dermot O’Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence |
Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1942 ⓘ |
| style |
chromatic harmony
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lush late-Romantic idiom ⓘ rich orchestration ⓘ |
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Referenced by (5)
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this entity surface form:
Sir Arnold Bax