Cyril Bradley Rootham /ˈruːtəm/ (5 October 1875 – 18 March 1938) was an English composer, educator and organist. His work at Cambridge University made...
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Rootham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cyril Rootham (1875–1938), English composer, educator, and organist Graeme Rootham (born...
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Rootham was an only child. His paternal grandfather was the singer, organist, and conductor Daniel Wilberforce Rootham (1837–1922). His father Cyril Rootham...
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and orchestra by the English composer Cyril Rootham, composed in 1909–1910. The only known performance of Rootham's op 33 The Lady of Shalott was given...
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Down Here the Hawthorn was set to music for chorus and orchestra by Cyril Rootham (as Brown Earth, 1921–2). He was born in Derbyshire, to Jewish parents...
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dramatic cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra by English composer Cyril Rootham Andromeda, 1886 cantata for the Three Choirs Festival by English composer...
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composer Cyril Rootham wrote his Op.8 "Four Impressions (Killarney)" for solo violin and small orchestra. The work was never published, but Rootham later...
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Lanier composed a "setting" for the poem in 1871. In 1906 the composer Cyril Rootham set "Break, break, break" as a part song for unaccompanied men's voices...
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Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had...
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was published after another setting of the same poem by the composer Cyril Rootham in 1915. Neither composer was responsible for this, and Elgar initially...
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