Fair House of Joy
- 1.Accompaniment (Ab Major)0:30
- 2.Accompaniment + Melody (Ab Major)0:30
“Fair House of Joy” Op.12 No.7 is a song composed by English composer Roger Quilter and is part of his collection entitled ‘Seven Elizabethan Lyrics’ Op. 12.
Performance Length: 1:56
Quilter was born in Hove, Sussex; a commemorative blue plaque is on the house at 4 Brunswick Square. He was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, a wealthy noted landowner, politician and art collector.
Roger Quilter was educated first in the preparatory school at Farnborough. He then moved to Eton College and later became a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of composition Iwan Knorr. Quilter belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s.
His reputation in England rests largely on his songs and on his light music for orchestra, such as his Children’s Overture, with its interwoven nursery rhyme tunes, and a suite of music for the play Where the Rainbow Ends. He is noted as an influence on several English composers, including Peter Warlock.
He died at his home in St John’s Wood, London, a few months after celebrations to mark his 75th birthday, and was buried in the family vault at St Mary’s Church, Bawdsey, Suffolk.
Roger Quilter’s output of songs, more than one hundred in total, added to the canon of English art song that is still sung today. Among the most popular are “Love’s Philosophy”, “Fair House of Joy”, “Come Away Death”, “Go, Lovely Rose”, “Weep You No More”, “By the Sea”, and his setting of “O Mistress Mine“. Quilter’s setting of verses from the Tennyson poem “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” is one of his earliest songs but is nonetheless characteristic of the later, mature style.
He also published the Arnold Book of Old Songs, a collection of 16 folk and traditional songs to new accompaniments, dedicated to his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian.
Purchase includes: Mp3 Audio Track
- Accompaniment
- Accompaniment + Melody
Please choose your key from Ab Major, Bb Major & Db Major.
You can find the sheet music for ‘Fair House of Joy’ here.
€3,50
Product Description
“Fair House of Joy” Op.12 No.7 is a song composed by English composer Roger Quilter and is part of his collection entitled ‘Seven Elizabethan Lyrics’ Op. 12.
Performance Length: 1:56
Quilter was born in Hove, Sussex; a commemorative blue plaque is on the house at 4 Brunswick Square. He was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, a wealthy noted landowner, politician and art collector.
Roger Quilter was educated first in the preparatory school at Farnborough. He then moved to Eton College and later became a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of composition Iwan Knorr. Quilter belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s.
His reputation in England rests largely on his songs and on his light music for orchestra, such as his Children’s Overture, with its interwoven nursery rhyme tunes, and a suite of music for the play Where the Rainbow Ends. He is noted as an influence on several English composers, including Peter Warlock.
He died at his home in St John’s Wood, London, a few months after celebrations to mark his 75th birthday, and was buried in the family vault at St Mary’s Church, Bawdsey, Suffolk.
Roger Quilter’s output of songs, more than one hundred in total, added to the canon of English art song that is still sung today. Among the most popular are “Love’s Philosophy”, “Fair House of Joy”, “Come Away Death”, “Go, Lovely Rose”, “Weep You No More”, “By the Sea”, and his setting of “O Mistress Mine“. Quilter’s setting of verses from the Tennyson poem “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” is one of his earliest songs but is nonetheless characteristic of the later, mature style.
He also published the Arnold Book of Old Songs, a collection of 16 folk and traditional songs to new accompaniments, dedicated to his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian.
Purchase includes: Mp3 Audio Track
- Accompaniment
- Accompaniment + Melody
Please choose your key from Ab Major, Bb Major & Db Major.
You can find the sheet music for ‘Fair House of Joy’ here.
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