Gerard Victory was a productive and versatile composer. In Dublin, he studied French, German and Celtic Studies. During this time, he was already active as a musician. He performed as an actor, singer and conductor in Dublin. As a composer, he was basically self-taught, studying only sporadically until 1953. In 1945, he experienced the first professional performance of his music, a revue. He became musical director at the Abbey Theater, where he directed the performance of his Gaelic opera. Since 1948, he worked for the Irish radio station RTE, eventually as head of the musical department (1967-82). In parallel, he composed more than 230 works, including 10 operas and 4 symphonies, orchestral works and chamber music as well as music for movies, TV and stages, from easy listening to avant-garde. His entry for the 1948 Olympics was the song “True Greatness”.
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