"Who was the composer of the Oratorio, ""The Dream Of Gerontius""?"
The Dream of Gerontius Sargent's 1945 EMI version and Barbirolli's 1964 EMI recording. Prelude to "The Dream of Gerontius", arranged by John Morrison for symphonic wind band, publisher Molenaar Edition. The Dream of Gerontius The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. Elgar disapproved of the use of the term "oratorio" for the work (and the term occurs nowhere in
The Dream of Gerontius of the poem that had already been absorbed into Anglican hymn books: "Firmly I believe and truly", and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height". "The Dream of Gerontius" received its US premiere on 23 March 1903 at The Auditorium, Chicago, conducted by Harrison M. Wild. It was given in New York, conducted by Walter Damrosch three days later. It was performed in Sydney, in 1903. The first performance in Vienna was in 1905; the Paris premiere was in 1906; and by 1911 the work received its Canadian premiere in Toronto under the baton of the composer. In the first