Frederic Clay
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Frederic Emes Clay was an English composer known principally for songs and his music written for the stage. Although from a musical family, for 16 years Clay made his living as a civil servant in HM T
Frederic Clay
Librettists for Clay: clockwise from top left: B. C. Stephenson, T. W. Robertson, Tom Taylor and W. S. Gilbert
The picture gallery comes to life in Clay and Gilbert's Ages Ago, 1869
Clay, Seymour Egerton and Arthur Sullivan
Robert Reece
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Robert Reece was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era. He wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas, farces and adaptations from the French, including the
Frederic Clay
…and Sullivan partnership. In addition to Gilbert, Clay's librettists during his 24-year career included B. C. Stephenson, Tom Taylor, T. W. Robertson, Robert Reece and G. R. Sims. The last of his four pieces with Gilbert was Princess Toto (1875), which had short runs in the West End and in New York. Clay's other…
Reece's The Forty Thieves, 1880
Poster for an 1886 production of Reece's Aladdin and the Forty Thieves