Claudius Herbert Couldery (1842-1930)

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Sullivan, Mackenzie and Parry are clearly the principal British composers born during the 1840s, but a further exact contemporary of Arthur Sullivan and Henry Gadsby was the Lewisham-born composer Claudius Herbert Couldery: a pupil of John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett at the RAM, he was another musician who managed to secure performances under August Manns and Henry Wood.

Six Musical Sketches, for piano (pub. 1869)
Two Musical Sketches, for piano (pub. 1876)
Concert Overture, Richard I (Crystal Palace, 14th February 1885)
Concert Overture, To the Memory of a Hero (Crystal Palace, 8th February 1890)
Cradle Song, for Orchestra (18th November 1893)
St Cecilia for Organ, Harp, Violin and Orchestra (Crystal Palace, 2nd November 1895, pub. Weekes [arr. variously for organ, piano solo and violin/ piano] 1896)
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, sacred cantata (pub. Weekes, 1897)
Trumpet Fantasia (Crystal Palace, 15th October 1898; Proms 5th September 1899 and 23rd October 1900, pub. Boosey [arr. trumpet and organ] 1898)
12 Etudes for the Pianoforte, composed as a sequel to F. Burgmüller's 3rd Book of Studies (pub. 1900)
Carmen Puellis, cantata for Female Voices (pub. Weekes, 1905)
Rustic Suite, for piano (pub. Novello, 1917)
Concert Reverie in D minor, for pianoforte (pub. Novello, 1926)

further piano and vocal works

He seems to have largely given up orchestral music around the turn of the century and the whereabouts of his autographs is, at present, unknown.

He was the brother of Horatio Henry Couldery (1832-1918 [often erroneously given as 1893]), a popular animal painter.