SULLIVAN, &a Arthur Seymour, Eng lish composer: b. London, 13 May 1842; d. 22' Nov. 1900. His father was a military band master, and taught his son before nine years of age to play every wind-instrument used in the band, thus laying the foundation of the wide orchestral knowledge afterward displayed by Sir Arthur. Endowed with a fine treble voice he became a choir-boy at the Chapel Royal; in 1856 gained the Mendelssohn scholarship of the Royal Academy of Music, where he continued his musical education; and in 1858 went to Leipzig, completing his studies with Moscheles, Hauptmann, and other famous instructors of that period. On his return to England in 186Z he at once attracted attention by his music to Shakespeare's
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