Armstrong Gibbs

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex – 12 May 1960, Chelmsford, Essex) was an English composer. A monument on the north chancel wall of the church of St John the Baptist, Danbury, Essex states that "He lived, worked and is buried in Danbury".

He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself taught composition and music theory from 1921 to 1939. From 1937 to 1952, he also served as the Vice President of the British Federation of Music Festivals.

Amstrong Gibbs composed one opera, one operetta, incidental music for several plays, several cantatas, three symphonies, a concertino for piano and string orchestra, five string quartets, one violin sonata, pieces for piano, works for choir, and many songs, a great number of which were settings of texts penned by his friend Walter de la Mare.

Major works

The White Devil, incidental music, 1920
In the High Alps, suite for piano, 1921
The Betrothal, incidental music for a play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1921
The Blue Peter, comic opera, 1923
Midsummer Madness, harlequinade, 1924
The Birth of Christ, cantata, 1930
The Highwayman, cantata for SATB and small orchestra, 1933
Fancy Dress, suite for piano and orchestra, 1934
Deborah and Barak, cantata, 1936
Lakeland Pictures eight preludes for piano, 1940
Dale and Fell, suite, 1953
Mr Cornelius, operetta, 1953
Threnody for string quartet and string orchestra, 1956
Symphony No. 1 in E major, 1931–32, premiered 1932
Symphony No. 2 Odysseus, choral symphony, 1937-38, premiered 1946
Symphony No. 3 Westmorland, 1943-44, premiered 1945
"The Cherry Tree" for vocal or choral

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Name	Gibbs, Amstrong
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Date of birth	10 August 1889
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Date of death	12 May 1960
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Armstrong Gibbs

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