In 1886 Julius Delius agreed to allow his son to pursue a musical career, and paid for him to study music formally.

At the conservatoire, Delius made little progress in his piano studies under Carl Reinecke, but Salomon Jadassohn praised his hard work and grasp of counterpoint ; Delius also resumed studies under Hans Sitt.

The reviews were polite, but The Times, having praised the orchestral aspects of the score, commented, " Mr. Delius seems to have remarkably little sense of dramatic writing for the voice ".

Passions between Heseltine and Puma had meanwhile cooled ; when she became pregnant, Heseltine confided to Delius that he had little liking for the ex-model and had no intention of helping her to raise this unwanted child.

After 1915, Delius turned his attention to traditional sonata, chamber and concerto forms, which he had largely left alone since his apprentice days.

Julius Delius assumed that his son would play a part in the family wool business, and for the next three years he tried hard to persuade him to do so.

Delius was then sent to represent the firm in France, but he frequently absented himself from business for excursions to the French Riviera.

After this, Julius Delius recognised that there was no prospect that his son would succeed in the family business, but he remained opposed to music as a profession, and instead sent him to America to manage an orange plantation.

A leading Florida property firm had branches in several English cities including Bradford ; in an article on Delius's time in Florida, William Randel conjectures that either Julius Delius visited the Bradford office and conceived the notion of sending his wayward son to grow oranges in Florida, or that Fritz himself saw it as a way to escape the hated family wool business and suggested the idea to his father.

" Delius never forgot the singing as he heard it, day or night, carried sweet and clear across the water to his verandah at Solano Grove, whenever a steam-ship passed ; it is hard to imagine conditions less conducive to cultivating oranges — or more conducive to composing.

They took up temporary residence in the south of England, where Delius continued to compose.

However, other conductors have continued to advocate Delius, and since the centenary year, the Delius Society has pursued the aim of " develop a greater knowledge of the life and works of Delius ".

These began a long series of Delius recordings under Beecham that continued for the rest of the conductor's life.

He consulted Delius, and was advised in a letter dated 11 January 1913 that, if his mind was set, he should follow his instincts and pursue this objective in the face of all other considerations.

The Delius household was musical ; famous musicians such as Joseph Joachim and Carlo Alfredo Piatti were guests, and played for the family.

Beecham gave discreet financial help, and the composer and musical benefactor H. Balfour Gardiner bought the house at Grez and allowed Delius and Jelka to live there rent-free.

An ability to construct long musical paragraphs is, according to the Delius scholar Christopher Palmer, Delius's lasting debt to Wagner, from whom he also acquired a knowledge of chromatic harmonic technique, " an endlessly proliferating sensuousness of sound ".

Hubert Foss, the Oxford University Press's musical editor during the 1920s and 1930s, writes that rather than creating his music from the known possibilities of instruments, Delius " thought the sounds first " and then sought the means for producing these particular sounds.

In 1909 he succeeded Siegfried Ochs as director of the Rühlscher Oratorienverein in Frankfurt-am-Mein and at 31 was appointed musical director of the municipal orchestra in Wiesbaden ; festivals of modern music ( Richard Strauss, Reger, Mahler, Delius and Arnold Schoenberg ) made Wiesbaden an internationally-renowned centre for music.

The piano studies went poorly, although Heseltine expanded his musical experiences by attending concerts and operas, and he maintained his correspondence with Delius.

He attended concerts and other musical events, and spent time with Delius at that summer's Birmingham Festival.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

Impressionism also gained a foothold in England, where its traits were assimilated by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and Frederick Delius.

Some composers who have been labeled impressionists are Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Frederick Delius, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Erik Satie, Albert Roussel, Alexander Scriabin, Lili Boulanger, Federico Mompou, Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Karol Szymanowski.

At the end of his schooldays, Adorno not only benefited from the rich concert offerings of Frankfurt-in which one could hear performances of works by Schoenberg, Schreker, Stravinsky, Bartók, Busoni, Delius and Hindemith-but also began studying music composition at the Hoch Conservatory while taking private lessons with well-respected composers Bernhard Sekles and Eduard Jung.

* January 29 – Frederick Delius, English composer ( d. 1934 )

* June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer ( b. 1862 )

He wrote " The three greatest composers who ever lived are Bach, Delius and Duke Ellington.

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Carl Delius worked in England and gave plans for many of Arkwright's inventions to Johann Gottfried Brugelmann ; Brugelmann used the information to establish a mill in Ratingen, near Düsseldorf, which began production in 1784.

The 3-disc 1929 recording of Delius's Sea Drift, arising from the Delius Festival that year, suffered by being crammed onto six sides and was withdrawn before 1936, probably as a result of the standardisation on 78 revolutions per minute.

While it is true that Tippett's music is not as obviously ' English ' in style as composers of the so-called ' English pastoral school ' - Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius, and later Howells and Finzi-there is an underlying thread of nature mysticism running through it which is as English as William Blake, Samuel Palmer or John Keats.

Little has been an exponent of the works of composer Frederick Delius throughout her career, and was the artistic director of " Delius Inspired ", an eight-day festival held in Bradford in July 2006 celebrating his work which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

She has also made a documentary on Delius for BBC Two.

Composers included Arnold Bax and Frederick Delius in Great Britain ; Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson, Ferde Grofe and George Gershwin in the United States ; Carl Nielsen in Denmark ; Mieczysław Karłowicz in Poland and Ottorino Respighi in Italy.

Both in the concert hall and on record, Barbirolli was particularly associated with the music of English composers such as Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams.

Barbirolli's programmes included works by composers as diverse as Purcell, Delius, Mozart and Franck.

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH ( 29 January 186210 June 1934 ) was an English composer.

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

After 1918 Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris.

The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composer's life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.

Delius was born in Bradford in Yorkshire.

He was baptised as " Fritz Theodore Albert Delius ", and used the forename Fritz until he was about 40.