The Lost Chord for Double Bass Choir (arr. Graham Boag) by Sir Arthur Sullivan Sheet Music for String Bass Solo at Sheet Music Direct
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The Lost Chord for Double Bass Choir (arr. Graham Boag) Digital Sheet Music
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The Lost Chord for Double Bass Choir (arr. Graham Boag)
by Sir Arthur Sullivan String Bass Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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The Lost Chord is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877  at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness.  The manuscript is dated 13 January 1877; Fred Sullivan died five days later.  The lyric was written as a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord",  published in 1858 in The English Woman's Journal.   The song was immediately successful and became particularly associated with  American contralto Antoinette Sterling, with Sullivan's close friend and mistress, Fanny Ronalds,  and with British contralto Clara Butt.   Sullivan was proud of the song and later noted:  "I have composed much music since then,  but have never written a second Lost Chord."  Many singers have recorded the song, including Enrico Caruso, who sang it at the  Metropolitan Opera House on 29 April 1912 at a benefit concert for families of victims  of the Titanic disaster.   The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs,  and the setting is still performed today.  

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