Sullivan's Instrumental and Chamber Music dates from the late 1850's, when he was a student in Leipzig, and the 1860's when the young composer was making his name with his earliest songs and orchestral pieces. Whilst in the single movement string quartet, written about the time of his seventeenth birthday, Sullivan shows remarkable inspiration and maturity for his age, the piano pieces written on his return to London were clearly directed at a more popular market and, like many of his early songs, surely intended to generate much needed income. Reviewing Day Dreams in 1867, The Musical Times commented on Sullivan's "rarest gift of being able to produce trifles expressed with special value and marked character."

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