DELIUS, FREDERICK British musical com poser, was born at Bradford, Yorks, Jan. 29, 1863, the son of Julius Delius, a German, who, in 186o, became a naturalised British subject. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the International College, Isleworth, London. Declining the business career offered him in Bradford he went to Florida as an orange planter, but devoted his spare time to such musical study as he could obtain from the books in his possession. In 1886 he left Florida for Leipzig and there underwent a more or less regular training from Jadassohn and came under the in fluence of Grieg, then living in that town. His first published work, a Legende for violin solo with orchestral accompaniment, was issued in 1892, since when he has gained in ever-increasing measure, though very slowly, the recognition which is his due as one of the most considerable masters of his time. His music is as a whole however too delicate and restrained in character to be likely ever to secure wide general favour. Delius might be defined indeed as a musician's musician and although gen eral recognition has come to him so slowly, and even still in such limited measure, among the discerning few he has never lacked warm and whole-hearted appreciation. His not very extensive output comprises examples in most of the leading forms, includ ing no fewer than six operas, lrmelin, The Magic Fountain, Koanga, Margot la Rouge, Fennimore and Gerda and A Village Romeo and Juliet, most of these have been produced in Germany but only the last named has been heard in England. Among his other compositions may be named, in the way of choral works, A Mass of Life, Sea Drift, A Song of the High Hills, and a Requiem; for orchestra, Over the Hills and Far Away, Paris: the Song of a Great City, Life's Dance, Brigg Fair, the two ex quisite idylles Summer Night on the River and On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, and four concertos (pianoforte, violin, violon cello and violin and violoncello) ; for the chamber, two string quartets and three sonatas for violin and piano; and a number of songs. He was created a Companion of Honour in 1929.