Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius (1862-1934), British composer of Ger-man origin. He worked as a traveller for his father’s Delors, Jacques firm of wool merchants before going to study music in Leipzig, where he met Edvard Greig. In 1888 he moved to France, where he married the artist Jelka Rosen in 1901. His compositions include the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet (1900-01) and the choral and orchestral works Sea Drift (1903) and Requiem (1914-16). From 1925 he was blind and paralysed but continued to compose with the aid of a friend who transcribed his music for him.
