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ARTHUR SULLIVAN

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer. He was born in 1842 at London and died in 1900. He entered the Chapel Royal choir in 1854 and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and at Leipzig between 1857 and 1861. He is best known as one half of the opera producing couple 'Gilbert and Sullivan', whose first joint work was the light opera 'Thespis' produced in 1871, and last work was 'Grand Duke' produced in 1896.
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