On his return to his native city, he wrote his "Irish" Symphony as well as an overture, In Memoriam, and an oratorio, The Prodigal Son.
This composer was the first winner of the Mendelssohn Prize and in 1858 moved to Leipzig to become a conductor. On his return to his native city, he wrote his "Irish" Symphony as well as an overture, In Memoriam, and an oratorio, The Prodigal Son. In 1872 he wrote what is now probably his single best-known tune, which is set to lyrics which feature a line about "marching as to war." The previous year, he had been commissioned to write a work whose score is now lost, called Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, which was his first in a genre that he would continue with The Grand Duke and Utopia Limited. FTP, name this composer of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers," as well as The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, Iolanthe and H.M.S. Pinafore, all in collaboration with W.S. Gilbert.
This composer was the first winner of the Mendelssohn Prize and in 1858 moved to Leipzig to become a conductor.
Arthur Sullivan