After the extraordinary success of H.M.S. Its box-office success led to a series of twelve full-length comic operas by the collaborators.
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Four years later, the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury (1875). In 1866 Sullivan composed a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely performed. To supplement the income from his concert works he wrote hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces, and worked as a church organist and music teacher. Among his early major works were a ballet, L'Île Enchantée (1864), a symphony, a cello concerto (both 1866), and his Overture di Ballo (1870). His graduation piece, incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest (1861), was received with acclaim on its first performance in London. In 1856, at 14, he was awarded the first Mendelssohn Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, which allowed him to study at the academy and then at the Leipzig Conservatoire in Germany. The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at the age of eight and was later a soloist in the boys' choir of the Chapel Royal. His hymns and songs include " Onward, Christian Soldiers" and " The Lost Chord". His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO ( – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.
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