Eric Coates
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Biography
Eric Francis Harrison Coates was born on August 27, 1886, in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England. He began his musical education at age six, initially learning the violin before switching to the viola under George Ellenberger's tutelage. In 1906, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Coates composed songs that were featured in RAM concerts while still a student. After graduating, he joined the Hambourg Quartet and later became part of the Cathie and Walenn quartets. He gave up playing the viola permanently in 1919 and focused on composition. His notable works include "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (1930) and "The Dam Busters March" (1954). Coates's compositions were influenced by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German but evolved to incorporate jazz elements. He passed away on December 21, 1957.
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Albums
The Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Band of The Royal Yeomanry
The Music of Eric Coates By the Sleepy Lagoon
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- London Again (Suite): Oxford Street - March
- The Merrymakers, Miniature Overture
- Television March
- London Suite - Knightsbridge March (Abridged Version)
- London Calling
- Covent Garden by Eric Coates
- Sweet Seventeen
- Knightsbridge by Eric Coates
- March Knightsbridge
- London Again Suite No. 1: Oxford Street
- Music Everywhere
- Tarantelle Covent Garden
- Three Elizabeths - Suite: Elizabeth Tudor
- London Again (Suite): Langham Place - Elegy
- By the Sleepy Lagoon
- The Four Centuries - Suite~Pavane & Tambourin - 18th Century
- Rise Up And Reach The Stars
- Oxford Street: March
- Saxo-Rhapsody
- With a Song in my Heart, Symphonic Rhapsody (after Richard Rogers)
- Eighth Army March
- Summer Afternoon - Idyll
- Calling all Workers
- Wood Nymphs - Valsette
