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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO born 13 May 1842 was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry and most famous for his music in collaboration with W S Gilbert. Some of his famous operas include The Mikado, Ivanhoe and Yeoman of the Guard. In all, Sullivan composed included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, one song cycle, incidental music to several plays, numerous hymns and other church pieces, and a large body of songs, parlour ballads, part songs, carols, and piano and chamber pieces.
Having suffered from long-standing recurrent kidney disease that made it necessary, from the 1880s, for him to conduct sitting down, Sullivan died of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in London on 22 November 1900.
His unfinished opera, The Emerald Isle, was completed by Edward German and produced in 1901.
His Te Deum Laudamus, written to commemorate the end of the Boer War, was performed posthumously.
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