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Sir Edward German, né le 17 février 1862 à Whitchurch, dans le Shropshire et décédé à Londres le 11 novembre 1936 est un musicien et compositeur d'origine galloise, connu pour sa vaste production de musique de scène et comme successeur d'Arthur Sullivan dans le domaine de l'opéra comique anglais.

Dans sa jeunesse, German joue du violon et a dirigé l'orchestre de sa ville natale. Il commence également à composer de la musique. Il se produit comme violoniste et enseigne le violon à l'Académie royale de musique. Sa véritable carrière de compositeur commence au milieu des années 1880. Il écrit de la musique sérieuse et des opérettes. En 1888, il devient directeur musical du Globe Theatre à Londres. Il compose des musiques de scène pour de nombreuses productions dans ce théatre mais également pour d'autres théâtres de Londres, dont Richard III , Henry VIII et Nell Gwynn . Il écrit des symphonies, des suites d'orchestre, des poèmes symphoniques, etc. Il écrit aussi un nombre considérable de chansons et de la musique pour piano, ainsi que des suites symphoniques et autres musiques de concert, dont sa célèbre Welsh Rhapsody .

German est engagé pour terminer The Emerald Isle après la mort d'Arthur Sullivan en 1900. Le succès obtenu le conduit à composer plusieurs opéras-comiques, dont les très populaires Merrie England et Tom Jones . En 1903, il met en musique le Just So Songs de Rudyard Kipling et a continue à écrire de la musique orchestrale. Il est anobli en 1928. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. février 1862 – 11. novembre 1936
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Edward German: Citations en anglais

“I should like to shake Eric Coates but I won't. When I meet him he says, "I just love every note you have written." and I believe he does--but--as you say--well!”

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German's exasperation with the perception of fellow composer Coates imitating his own style, in a letter to his sister Rachel (4 January, 1925)

“There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.”

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Sir Arthur Sullivan

“It is an immortal masterpiece. Anybody and everybody today would, I should say, give the rest of their lives to have written it. Anyway I would.”

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Dame Ethel Smyth, on Merrie England

“When Adam and Eve were dispossessed / Of the garden hard by Heaven / They planted another one down in the West / Twas Devon, glorious Devon”

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Lyrics from the song "Glorious Devon", incorrectly attributed to German in a contest sponsored by the Devon County Council. Though German did write the music, the lyrics were written by Sir Harold Boulton.
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“If you can't do anything as good as or even better than what you have already done, then don't do it.”

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In a letter to his sisters in 1927.

“Every picture shop is filled with pictures of the Emperor; every photographer's with photos--all sizes and in all kinds of positions, in and out of uniform, in different uniforms, looking condescending, looking dignified, on horseback in uniform, on horseback in plain clothes, on donkeyback, head and shoulders without legs, legs without head and shoulders, helmet in hand, helmet on head, helmet on tail, flying in mid air etc. etc. All the statuary too turns on the Emperor. There are busts chiselled in all sizes and the number of different varieties to be seen in halls, houses, shop windows etc. is something quite unbearable. The toy shops are filled with toy Emperors; when he was young the boy Emperor; then the man Emperor; in fact Berlin is saturated with the blessed Emperor as man, woman, boy, girl, soldier, tinker, tailor. The end of it all will be that the people will go stark staring mad and the Emperor himself will go off with a bang the verdict being: "Death from explosion owing to his receiving more hero-worship than the human frame can bear!"”

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In a letter to his sister, describing his observations from a trip to Germany of the cult-like status given the Kaiser.

“My music cannot possibly have given you one hundredth part of the joy your music has given me.”

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Edward Elgar, in a letter to German (1924)

“I am one of those men who never enter into controversies but I shall certainly speak my views to anybody whom I may meet on the subject.”

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In a letter to Sir Seymour Hicks (December 1910)

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