What is Arthur Bliss?
{{Infobox Person | name =Arthur Bliss | residence = | other_names = | image =Arthur Bliss - photo by Herbert Lambert - ca. 1922.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name =Arthur Bliss | birth_date =2 August 1891 | birth_place =London, England | death_date =27 March 1975 | death_place = | death_cause = | known = | occupation = Composer | title =Master of the Queen's Music | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relations = | website = | footnotes = | employer = | height = }} Sir '''Arthur Bliss''' [[CH]] [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]] ([[London]], 2 August 1891; died London, 27 March 1975) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[composer]]. When he started composing, his music sounded very modern and harsh. As he got older he changed his style and wrote more [[Romantic music]] in the style of English composer [[Edward Elgar]]. For more than twenty years he was [[Master of the Queen's Music]]. ==Early life== His father was [[United States|American]], his mother was [[England|English]]. He went to school at [[Rugby School|Rugby]]. He went to [[Cambridge University]] where he studied with [[Irish people|Irish]] composer [[Charles Wood]]. Wood also taught the composer [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. Bliss got to know Elgar whose music [[influence]]d him very much. For a short time he learned music from [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] at the [[Royal College of Music]]. During [[World War I]] he served in the [[army]]. ==After World War 1== After the war he started to play his music in public. These compositions show the influence of [[Stravinsky]], [[Ravel]] and [[Les Six]]. His music even sounded [[jazz]]y. After a few years his music became more Romantic. Elgar asked him to write something for the [[Three Choirs Festival]] in 1922. The piece he composed was his ''Colour Symphony'' in which he tries to describe [[colour]]s in music. During the 1920s his music became more traditional. He wrote a lot of music for [[movie]]s including music for the m