George Grossmith (Composer)
Born: 9th December 1847, Islington, London
Died: 1st March 1912, Folkstone, UK
Nationality: English
George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
Grossmith created a series of nine characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance (1880) and Ko-Ko in The Mikado (1885–87). He also wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody.
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- Away Remorse/Henceforth All the Crimes (1)
- Beautiful Bountiful Bertie (1)
- Bertie the Bounder (1)
- Cups and Saucers (1)
- Go On Talking - Don’t Mind Me! (1)
- He Was a Careless Man (1)
- His Nose was on the Mantelpiece (1)
- How I Became a Detective (1)
- How I Became an Actor (1)
- I am Not in the Vein, My Muse (1)
- I am so Volatile (1)
- I Don’t Mind Flies (1)
- I Loved Her & I Left Her (1)
- I Once was as Meek as a Newborn Lamb (1)
- I was Born upon a Sunday (1)
- I’m his Daisy (1)
- I’m Tired of the Moon, My Love & Myself (1)
- If you Value a Peaceable Life (1)
- Johnnie at the Gaiety (1)
- Loved another Girl since Then (1)
- My Janet (1)
- My Lady Nature’s Little Joke (1)
- My Name is John Wellington Wells (1)
- Oh Butcher, Oh Baker (1)
- See Me Dance the Polka (1)
- See Me Reverse (1)
- The Baby on the Shore (1)
- The Bay of Battersea (1)
- The Bus Conductor’s Song (1)
- The French Verbs Song (1)
- The Gay Photographer (1)
- The Happy Old Days at Peckham (1)
- The Lost Key (1)
- The Mother & Her Child were There! (1)
- The Muddle-Puddle Porter (1)
- Thou of my Thou (1)
- Tommy’s First Love (1)
- Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay (1)
- Your Honoured & Ancient Name (1)