AFFLICTED COMPOSER.
FREDERICK DELIUS BLIND.
RESULT OF NERVE TROUBLE.
(Received February 8, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 8.
For a considerable time the composer, Mr. Frederick Delius, has had serious trouble with his optic nerves, after a• nervous breakdown. He is totally blind. French, English, German and Italian eye specialists who have attended him still hope that his sight may eventually be restored.
Mr. Frederick Delius, the Britisli composer, was born at Bradford in 1863. He studied music a,t Leipzig, and also under the Norwegian composer, Grieg. He later went to live in France, near Paris, where he remained. He has composed much incidental music for plays, and operas, and instrumental music. His piano concerto in C minor, "A Mass of Life," and his "Poem of Life and Love'' and »"North County Sketches" are well known. Ho also composed the fine incidental music to the late James Elroy Flecker's fine poem and play, "Hassan."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19866, 9 February 1928, Page 9
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