Definition of Sir Arthur Sullivan

1. Noun. English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900).

Exact synonyms: Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Arthur Sullivan, Sullivan
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Arthur Sullivan

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alec Guinness
Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Korda
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Angus Wilson
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
Sir Anthony Vandyke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur John Evans
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Sullivan (current term)
Sir Arthur Travers Harris
Sir Barton
Sir Bernanrd Williams
Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Sir Bernard Lovell
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles William Siemens
Sir Christopher Wren
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
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Sir David Alexander Cecil Low

Literary usage of Sir Arthur Sullivan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"For some time it had been rumoured that Mr. Pinero had undertaken to supply Sir Arthur Sullivan with a libretto ; great, then, was the interest awakened. ..."

2. The Bookman (1903)
"Despite his happy experience as a proies- Sir Arthur Sullivan. league to supply a waltz for the evening's concert. This gave Strauss his opportunity, ..."

3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"Sir Arthur Sullivan MUSIC [Speech of Sir Arthur Sullivan at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy, May 2, 1891. Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the ..."

4. Some Eminent Victorians: Personal Recollections in the World of Art and Letters by Joseph Comyns Carr (1908)
"... to me that I should so far rearrange the material I had treated as to provide a libretto for an opera he had in his mind to compose. Sir Arthur Sullivan ..."

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