Henry Chorley
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Henry Fothergill Chorley was an English literary, painting and music critic, writer and editor. He was also an author of novels, drama, poetry and lyrics.
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
Detail of monument
The Sapphire Necklace
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The Sapphire Necklace, or the False Heiress, was the first opera composed by Arthur Sullivan, to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley. It was never performed, and most of the music and libretto are now lost
Henry Chorley
…Witch for composer William Vincent Wallace, The May Queen – A Pastoral (1858) for William Sterndale Bennett, and two for his friend Arthur Sullivan: The Sapphire Necklace and The Masque at Kenilworth. He published an English version of Meyerbeer's Dinorah, and wrote the words for several well-known songs, including…
The opening of Charles Godfrey, Jr's military band arrangement of the overture.