Arnold Bax

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composer human orchestrator

Arnold Bax was a prominent early 20th-century British composer and pianist known for his richly orchestrated, late-Romantic symphonies and tone poems often inspired by Celtic and Irish themes.

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Sir Arnold Bax	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	composer ⓘ human ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ
awardReceived	Knight Bachelor ⓘ
burialPlace	Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ St Finbarr’s Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart attack ⓘ
composed	score for the film "Oliver Twist" (1948) ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ
dateOfAward	1937 ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1883-11-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1953-10-03 ⓘ
educatedAt	Royal Academy of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	1953 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	English ⓘ
familyName	Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	classical music ⓘ film music ⓘ symphonic composition ⓘ tone poems ⓘ
fullName	Arnold Edward Trevor Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	art song ⓘ chamber music ⓘ choral music ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ piano music ⓘ symphonic music ⓘ
givenName	Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSibling	Clifford Bax NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	Celtic literature ⓘ Claude Debussy NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian music ⓘ William Butler Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ
languagesSpokenWritten	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Irish ⓘ
marriedTo	Elsita Sobrino NERFINISHED ⓘ
middleName	Edward Trevor NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	Impressionism in music NERFINISHED ⓘ late Romantic music ⓘ
notableIdea	use of Celtic and Irish themes in orchestral music ⓘ
notableWork	Clarinet Sonata NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Faëry Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Twilight NERFINISHED ⓘ November Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Sonata No. 3 in G-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 1 in G major NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 2 in E minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 2 in E minor and C major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 in C major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 6 in E major NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 7 in A-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ The Garden of Fand NERFINISHED ⓘ The Happy Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Tintagel NERFINISHED ⓘ Violin Sonata No. 1 in E major NERFINISHED ⓘ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major NERFINISHED ⓘ Winter Legends NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	composer ⓘ music critic ⓘ pianist ⓘ professor of music ⓘ
placeOfBirth	England ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London Streatham NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ County Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Master of the King’s Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music ⓘ
pseudonym	Dermot O’Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	agnosticism ⓘ
residence	Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
startTime	1942 ⓘ
style	chromatic harmony ⓘ lush late-Romantic idiom ⓘ rich orchestration ⓘ

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Symphony No. 4 in F minor → dedication → Arnold Bax ⓘ

Celtic Revival → hasKeyFigure → Arnold Bax ⓘ

English pastoral school → hasNotableComposer → Arnold Bax ⓘ

English Musical Renaissance → hasParticipant → Arnold Bax ⓘ

Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal → positionHeldBy → Arnold Bax ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sir Arnold Bax