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Roger Quilter

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Roger Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953), was an English composer. Born in Hove, Sussex, Quilter was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, who was a noted art collector. Quilter was educated at Eton College, later becoming a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and Henry Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s.

Top songs

  1. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite (version for orchestra): No. 1a Rainbow Land
  2. Slumber Song
  3. Summer Sunset (arr. J. Lloyd Webber for 2 cellos and piano)
  4. Quilter / Arr. Hough: 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  5. My Lady Greensleeves (arr. J. Lloyd Webber for 2 cellos and piano)
  6. Quilter: 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: I. Come Away, Death
  7. Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op.3 No. 2
  8. Quilter: 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Arr. Hough for Piano)
  9. Love's Philosophy
  10. An Old Carol (I sing of a maiden)
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  1. Six Songs Op. 25: 2. The Fuchsia Tree (arr. Hough)
  2. A Children's Overture
  3. Love's Philosophy, Op. 3, No. 1
  4. Quilter / Arr. Hough: 6 Songs, Op. 25: No. 2, The Fuchsia Tree
  5. Come away, death, Op. 6 No. 1
  6. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: O mistress mine
  7. O Mistress Mine
  8. Where the Rainbow Ends: No. 11, Slumber Song (Version for Cello & Piano)
  9. 6 Songs, Op. 25: No. 5, Music, When Soft Voices Die
  10. A Children's Overture, Op. 17
  11. Love calls through the summer night
  12. 3 Songs, Op.3: 2. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
  13. 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1. Love's Philosophy
  14. 5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24: Go, lovely rose
  15. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  16. Quilter: 6 Songs, Op. 25: No. 2, The Fuchsia Tree (Arr. Hough for Piano)
  17. Weep You No More, Op. 12, No. 1
  18. Quilter: Suite from Where the Rainbow Ends: IV. Goblin Forest
  19. Quilter: 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 1, Come Away, Death
  20. 3 Songs of William Blake, Op. 20: No. 1. Dream Valley
  21. Quilter / Arr. Hough: 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1, Weep You No More
  22. 3 Songs, Op. 3 (text by A. Tennyson and P.B. Shelley): Love's philosophy
  23. Go, lovely rose
  24. As You Like It, Op. 21: No. 2 Evening In The Forest
  25. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics: Weep You No More
  26. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: I. Come Away Death
  27. Take, O take those lips away
  28. No. 1a Rainbow Land (Version for orchestra)
  29. Drink to me only with thine eyes
  30. I arise from dreams of thee
  31. As You Like It, Op. 21: IV. Country Dance
  32. 3 Pastoral Songs, Op. 22: ii - Cherry valley
  33. A London Spring Song
  34. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite: II. Rosamund (version for piano)
  35. Dream Valley, Op. 20 No. 1
  36. Music when soft voices die
  37. 5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24: No. 3. Go, Lovely Rose
  38. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op.6: 2. O Mistress Mine
  39. 3 Pastoral Songs, Op. 22: i - I will go with my father a-ploughing
  40. Country Pieces, Op. 27: No. 2 Goblins
  41. Weep you no more, Op.12, No.1
  42. 5 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23: Take, O take those lips away
  43. Five Shakespeare Songs: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
  44. Hark! Hark! the lark
  45. Quilter: 5 Shakespeare Songs, Set No. 2, Op. 23: III. It was a lover and his lass (Allegretto moderato)
  46. Music, When Soft Voices Die
  47. Five Shakespeare Songs, Op.23: 1. Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun
  48. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite: No. 1a Rainbow Land (Version for orchestra)
  49. 3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  50. Quilter: 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1, Weep You No More (Arr. Hough for Piano)
  51. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: II. O Mistress Mine
  52. Five Shakespeare Songs: Fear No More the Heat O’ the Sun
  53. Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite: 1a. Rainbow Land
  54. 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1, Weep You No More
  55. 5 Songs, Op.24: No.3 Go, lovely Rose
  56. Lead Us, Heavenly Father
  57. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 7. Fair House of Joy
  58. Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2
  59. Old English Popular Songs: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
  60. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics: My life's delight
  61. 5 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23: It was a lover and his lass
  62. Three English Dances Op. 11: 2. Allegro scherzoso
  63. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite (version for orchestra): No. 1b Will O' the Wisp
  64. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
  65. It was a lover and his lass
  66. June
  67. Spring is at the door
  68. Three Songs Op. 3: 2. Now sleeps the crimson petal (arr. Hough)
  69. 5 Jacobean Lyrics, Op. 28: No. 5. The Constant Lover
  70. Fairest Isle - Two Trombones and Harp
  71. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 1. Come Away, Death
  72. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Tennyson)
  73. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite (version for orchestra): No. 3 Fairy Frolic
  74. Where the Rainbow Ends Suite (version for orchestra): No. 2 Rosamund
  75. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics: Damask roses
  76. 4 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 30: How should I your true love know
  77. Two Impressions for Piano, Op. 19: In a Gondola
  78. 4 Songs, Op. 14: Autumn evening
  79. Come Away, Death
  80. 3 Pastoral Songs, Op. 22: iii - I wish and I wish
  81. 3 Songs, Op. 3: II. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  82. Three English Dances
  83. 5 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23: No. 3, It Was a Lover and His Lass
  84. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op.6: 1. Come Away Death
  85. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 2. O Mistress Mine
  86. The Cradle in Bethlehem
  87. 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 3. Damask Roses
  88. The Arnold Book of Old Songs: Ca' the yowes to the knowes
  89. As You Like It, Op. 21: II. Evening in the Forest
  90. 2 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 32: Orpheus with his lute

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