The first musical setting of the poem was probably a work for mezzo-soprano soloist, chorus and orchestra by the English composer Cyril Rootham, composed in 1909–1910. The only known performance of Rootham's op 33 "The Lady of Shalott" was given in the School Hall at Eton College on 18 September 1999, with the Broadheath Singers and the Windsor Sinfonia conducted by Robert Tucker. In 1957-1958, Arthur Bliss (once a pupil of Cyril Rootham) composed a 40-minute ballet suite titled "The Lady of Shalott".