Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Sitterback to top

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Musical composer. Sitter associated with 6 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé (1878-1972), Photographer and writer. Artist associated with 163 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Hoppé photographed composer Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) on 7 June 1912, less than three months before his tragic death from pneumonia at his home, Aldwick, St Leonard's Road, Croydon, on 1 September 1912, at the age of thirty-seven. Thousands attended his funeral and interment at Bandon Hill cemetery near Croydon. Coleridge Taylor is best remembered for Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898), from the poem by Henry Longfellow, and its sequels The Death of Minnehaha (1899) and Hiawatha's Departure (1900).

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 Centenary (17 July 2012 - 17 March 2013)

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Diversity
• In profile
• Shadows