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Name
  
Arnold Safroni-Middleton


Role
  
Composer

Arnold Safroni-Middleton THE LIFE AND THE POETRY OF ARNOLD SAFRONIMIDDLETON the composer

Died
  
November 7, 1950, Streatham, United Kingdom

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Imperial Echoes


George Arnold Haynes Safroni-Middleton, also known as Count Safroni (3 September 1873 – 7 November 1950) was a British composer, director, violinist, harpist, writer and amateur astronomer. For several works he used the pseudonym William H. Myddleton.

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Biography

Safroni-Middleton was born in Kent. He studied violin with Pablo de Sarasate and afterwards started performing as violinist. He played the violin in the Orchestra of "Her Majesty's Theatre" in Sydney, the Orchestra of the Opera House in Auckland, the Providence Opera House in Providence (Rhode Island), the Tokyo Orchestra, the Government House (Sarawak) Orchestra and the Government House (Hayti) Mexico Orchestra. As solo performer he toured around Australia, South America, Italy and Spain.

Later he became bandmaster of the Orchestra of the Carl Rosa Opera Company in London.

He married on Alice Elizabetta St. John on 27 July 1910. Together they had five children: Alice Pauline, Gabrielle, Hugh, Joan and Mary M A.

As a writer he wrote many novels, travel guides and poems. He explored Borneo, Papua New Guinea en Malaysia.

As a composer he is mainly known for his marches and dance music for the harmony orchestra. His best known piece is probably Imperial Echoes (1913), which for many years was the theme of Radio Newsreel on BBC radio.

He died in Streatham and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery on 10 November 1950, age 77.

Works for orchestra

  • Imperial Echoes (BBC Radio Newsreel march)
  • The Leek

    • Works for harmony orchestra

  • American President, march
  • Boys of The Old Brigade
  • By Imperial Command, march
  • By Order of the King, march
  • Call of the Empire, march
  • Chanson de la Nuit, entr'acte
  • Down South
  • Firenze, waltz
  • House of Hanover, march
  • Imperial Echoes, march
  • Imperial March, march
  • King's Cavalier, march
  • Light of the Regiment
  • Men of the Mist, march
  • Negro dream
  • Salute the Standard, march
  • Samoan Love Waltz
  • Sierra Leone, march
  • The Dashing British, march
  • The Last Tryst, concert waltz
  • The Monk's Dream
  • The Night Riders, march
  • The Phantom Brigade, march
  • The Relief, march
  • The Shamrock
  • The Scottish Thistle
  • The Stronghold, march

    • Stage plays

  • La Foresta, musical comedy
  • Gabrielle, musical comedy

    • Publications

  • Bush Songs and Oversea Voices - Songs of the South Sea Islands, Australia, London, John Long, 1914, 159 p.
  • Sailor and beachcomber : confessions of a life at sea, in Australia and amid the islands of the Pacific, Grant Richards, London, UK, 1915, 304 p.
  • A Vagabond's Odyssey Being Further Reminiscences of a Wandering Sailor-Trou Badour in Many Lands, Dodd & Mead, 1916, 328 p.
  • Gabrielle of the Lagoon. a Romance of the South Seas, The Solomon Isles. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia/London, 1919, 286 p.
  • South Sea Foam: The Romantic Adventures of a Modern Don Quixote in the Southern Seas, George H. Doran, 1920, 350 p.
  • Sestrina; a romance of the South Seas, George H. Doran, 1920, 256 p.
  • Tropic shadows, memories of the South Seas, together with reminiscences of the author's sea meetings with Joseph Conrad, London: The Richards Press, 1927, 302 p.
  • Tides of sunrise and sunset : the fourth dimension of romance, London : Heath Cranton, 1932. 219 p.
  • In the green leaf. A chapter of autobiography, London: Fortune Press, 1950, 199 p.
  • Tropic Shadows, New York, Barse & Co.
  • Two Faces in Borneo
  • Australian Bush Lyrics

    • References

    Arnold Safroni-Middleton Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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