Frederic Cliffe [SEP] date of death
Frederic Cliffe
Frederic Cliffe (2 May 1857 – 19 November 1931) was an English composer.
Life.
Cliffe was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. As a youth, he showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School for Music, the parent of the Royal College of Music, under its first Principal Arthur Sullivan.
From 1884 to 1931 he held the post of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music. Among his pupils were John Ireland and Arthur Benjamin
by Sir Thomas Beecham. Another one-acter, "Prima Donna" (1932) had to wait until 23 February 1949 for its premiere, at the Fortune Theatre in London. Its libretto was by Cedric Cliffe, son of Benjamin's piano teacher at the RCM, Frederic Cliffe.
"A Tale of Two Cities" (1950), and "Mañana" were full-length operas. The librettist for the former was again Cedric Cliffe. First produced by Dennis Arundell during the Festival of Britain in 1951,