Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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- npg number matching '5724'
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
by Walter Wallis
oil on canvas, 1881
10 in. x 8 in. (255 mm x 203 mm)
Purchased, 1984
Primary Collection
NPG 5724
Sitter
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Musical composer. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artist
Walter Wallis. Artist of 1 portrait.
This Portrait
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was the son of a doctor from Sierra Leone and an English mother. As a child he learnt the violin and sung in the church choir and in 1890 entered the Royal College of Music to study the violin and composition. He was still a student when his works began to be played in public, one of which was Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, the first part of his Hiawatha trilogy, a treatment of Longfellow's verse (1898). The completed trilogy brought him an international reputation. A composer of opera, orchestral, church and chamber music Coleridge-Taylor also wrote incidental music for the romantic plays at His Majesty's Theatre. In 1904 he was appointed conductor of the Handel Society, a post he combined with his role as a music teacher in Croydon, the town where he lived and died.
Linked Publications
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 136
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