Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (August 10, 1889, Great Baddow, Essex - May 12, 1960, Chelmsford) was an English composer.

He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself taught composition and music theory from 1921 to 1939. From 1937 to 1952, he also served as the Vice President of the British Federation of Music Festivals.

Amstrong Gibbs composed one opera, one operetta, incidental music for several plays, several cantatas, three symphonies, a concertino for piano and string orchestra, five string quartets, one violin sonata, pieces for piano, works for choir, and many songs, a great number of which were settings of texts penned by his friend Walter de la Mare.

Major works

*"The White Devil", incidental music, 1920
*"The Betrothal", incidental music for a play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1921
*"The Blue Peter", comic opera
*"Midsummer Madness", harlequinade
*"Mr Cornelius", operetta
*"The Birth of Christ", cantata, 1930
*"The Highwayman", cantanta for SATB and small orchestra
*"Deborak and Barak", cantata
*"Fancy Dress", suite for piano and orchestra
*"Dale and Fell", suite
*"Threnody" for string quartet and string orchestra
*"In the High Alps", suite for piano, 1921
*"Lakeland Pictures" eight preludes for piano, 1940
*Symphony in E major, 1931-32
*"Odysseus", choral symphony, premiered 1946
*Symphony No. 3 "Westmorland", 1944

External links

* [http://www.musicweb-international.com/GibbsCA/index.htm Biography from MusicWeb]
* [http://www.armstronggibbs.org Armstrong Gibbs Society Official Website]