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ALFRED CELLIER (1844-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 604 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED See also:CELLIER (1844-1891)  , See also:English musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Hackney on the 1st of See also:December 1844 . From 1855 to 186o he was a chorister at the See also:Chapel Royal, St See also:James's, under the Rev . See also:Thomas Helmore, where See also:Arthur See also:Sullivan was one of his youthful colleagues . His first See also:appointment was that of organist at All See also:Saints' See also:church, See also:Blackheath (1862) . In 1866 he succeeded Dr Chipp as director of the See also:Ulster See also:Hall concerts, See also:Belfast, at the same See also:time acting as conductor of the Belfast Philharmonic Society . In 1868 he returned to See also:London as organist of St See also:Alban's, See also:Holborn . From 1871 to 1875 he was conductor at the See also:Prince's See also:theatre, See also:Manchester; and from 1877 to 1879 at various London theatres . During this See also:period he composed many comic operas and operettas, of which the most successful was The See also:Sultan of Mocha, which was produced at Manchester in 1874, in London at the St James's theatre in 1876, and revived at the Strand theatre in 1887 . In x88o See also:Cellier visited See also:America, producing a musical version of See also:Longfellow's Masque of See also:Pandora at See also:Boston (1881) . In 1883 his setting of See also:Gray's See also:Elegy in the See also:form of a See also:cantata was produced at the See also:Leeds Festival . In 1886 he won the See also:great success of his See also:life in Dorothy, a comic See also:opera written to a libretto by B . C .

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Stephenson, which was produced at the Gaiety theatre on the 25th of See also:September 1886, and, transferred first to the Prince of See also:Wales theatre and subsequently to the Lyric theatre, ran until See also:April 1889 . See also:Doris (1889), and The Mountebanks, which was produced in See also:January 1892, a few days after the composer's See also:death, were less successful . Cellier owed much to the See also:influence of See also:Sir Arthur Sullivan . He had little of the latter's See also:humour and vivacity, but he was a fertile melodist, and his See also:writing is invariably distinguished by elegance and refinement . He died in London on the 28th of December 1891 .

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