Frederick Delius
La Calinda
Dance from the opera Koanga
Frederick Delius
La Calinda
Dance from the opera Koanga
- Instrumentation Orchestra
- Composer Frederick Delius
- Editor Eric Fenby
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BH83024
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Description:
Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in 1862 and died at Grez-sur-Loing, near Paris, in 1934.Besides an enormous output of choral and instrumental music he wrote six operas, and in Act II of the third of these, a Negro opera, Koanga (1895-7), slaves on the plantation sing and dance La Calinda at the wedding festivities of Koanga and Palmyra. This dance is adapted here for concert purpose.