Composition Year | 1898 |
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Genre Categories | Secular cantatas; Cantatas; Operettas; |
Work Title | The Gitanos |
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Alternative. Title | Cantata-Operetta |
Composer | Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.26 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | ISC 22 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1898 |
First Performance. | 1898 in London |
First Publication. | 1898 – London: Augener |
Librettist | Edward Oxenford (1846?-1929) |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Soprano, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 altos + female chorus (SSA) + piano |
Oxenford wrote the libretto for Ruth, Op.34, by Alfred Robert Gaul in the 1880s, so a birthdate in 1879 is possible only if this is a relative.
1898 composition date from Tortolano's Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Anglo-Black composer, 1875-1912 (who also gives 1898 for publication date. Page 107 (snippet view available in US at Google Books.)