Leslie Stuart : Composer of Florodora

Name: Leslie Stuart
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415937474
Price: 30950 KES
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ISBN: 9780415937474

by Andrew Lamb

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Format Hardback

Book Series Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre

ISBN-10 0415937477

ISBN-13 9780415937474

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 2nd, 2002

Print length 310 Pages

Weight 600 grams

Product Classification: Musicals Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Music of film and stage Composers and songwriters

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Tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall from fame of Leslie Stuart, whose success with the musical Floradora in the 1900s led to extravagant spending on gambling, drinking and entertaining and left him bankrupt.

Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London''s most fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation. Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in British and American musical theater.

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