Conductor Gallery

Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Classical Composer

Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912) - Classical Composer. Professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music and conducted the orchestra at the Croydon Conservatoire. After Coleridge-Taylor's death in 1912, musicians were concerned that he and his family had received no royalties from what was one of the most successful and popular works written in the previous 50 years. His case contributed to their formation of the Performing Rights Society, an effort to gain revenues for musicians through performance as well as publication and distribution of music Date: circa 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Music sheet cover for Queen of the May Quadrille

Music sheet cover for the Queen of the May Quadrille, composed by the French conductor Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860), and dedicated to Mrs Robert Arkwright (the actress Frances Crawford Kemble). An allegorical female figure is depicted to represent the month of May, wearing a pink chiffon dress and with bare feet. She is wearing pink roses in her hair, and holds up a garland of roses with which to crown the lucky girl chosen to be Queen of the May

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Sergei Prokofiev

Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), Ukrainian born pianist, conductor, and composer, on occasion of the first performance in England of Romeo and Juliet, in The Illustrated London News, 15th January 1938.
1938

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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