Composition Year | 1855 ca. |
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Genre Categories | Sacred oratorios; Oratorios; Religious works; |
Work Title | The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp; A Sacred Oratorio |
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Composer | Ouseley, Frederick Arthur Gore |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IFO 3 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1855 ca. |
First Performance. | 1855 April (extract only) 1855 December 9, Oxford (complete) |
First Publication. | 1885 ca. |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | voices, organ, orchestra |
Exercise for the composer's degree of Doctor in Music, 1855. - The life of Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ouseley, bart., M.A., Mus.D., etc., etc , p.265. (Given the date 1854 in Smither's 2000 A History of the Oratorio, p.325. Perhaps composed and premiered 1854 and submitted 1855 for degree?... need to check.)