Editing Arthur Sullivan (section)

===Death, honours and legacy===
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[[File:Memorial To Sir Arthur Sullivan.jpg|thumb|[[Arthur Sullivan Memorial, Victoria Embankment Gardens]]|alt=Colour photo of bronze statue of a partly-clothed muse, leaning on a stone pillar, looking up, longingly, at a bronze bust of Sullivan]]
Sullivan's health was never robust – from his thirties his kidney disease often obliged him to conduct sitting down. He died of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in [[Westminster]] on 22 November 1900 at the age of 58.<ref name=odnb>Jacobs, Arthur. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26772 "Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004 (online edition, May 2006), accessed 8 July 2008 {{ODNBsub}}</ref> His ''[[Te Deum Laudamus (Sullivan)|Te Deum Laudamus]]'', written in expectation of victory in the Boer War, was performed posthumously.<ref>Howarth, Paul. [https://gsarchive.net/sullivan/boer/tedeum.html "''Te Deum Laudamus'', A Thanksgiving for Victory"], the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 12 January 2010, accessed 28 July 2018</ref>

A [[Arthur Sullivan Memorial, Victoria Embankment Gardens|monument]] in the composer's memory featuring a weeping [[Muse]] was erected in the [[Victoria Embankment]] Gardens in London and is inscribed with Gilbert's words from ''The Yeomen of the Guard'': "Is life a boon? If so, it must befall that Death, whene'er he call, must call too soon". Sullivan wished to be buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]] with his parents and brother, but by order of the Queen he was buried in [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref>"Funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan", ''The Times'', 28 November 1900, p. 12</ref> In addition to his knighthood, honours awarded to Sullivan in his lifetime included Doctor in Music, ''honoris causa'', by the Universities of [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] (1876) and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] (1879); Chevalier, [[Légion d'honneur]], France (1878); [[Order of the Medjidie]] conferred by the [[Ottoman Empire|Sultan of Turkey]] (1888); and appointment as a [[Royal Victorian Order|Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order]] (MVO) in 1897.<ref name=musicaltimes/><ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/26871/pages/3820 ''The London Gazette''], 9 July 1897, p. 54</ref>

Sullivan's operas have often been adapted, first in the 19th century as dance pieces<ref name=DanceArr/> and in foreign adaptations of the operas themselves. Since then, his music has been made into ballets (''[[Pineapple Poll]]'' (1951) and ''[[Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet!]]'' (1991)) and musicals (''[[The Swing Mikado]]'' (1938), ''[[The Hot Mikado (1939 production)|The Hot Mikado]]'' (1939) and ''[[Hot Mikado]]'' (1986), ''[[Hollywood Pinafore]]'' and ''[[Memphis Bound]]'' (both 1945), ''[[The Black Mikado]]'' (1975), etc.). His operas are frequently performed,<ref>Bradley (2005), pp. 30 and 68</ref> and also [[Parody|parodied]], [[pastiche]]d, quoted and imitated in [[Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan|comedy routines, advertising, law, film, television, and other popular media]].<ref name=PeterDowns>Downs, Peter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001010741/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1147907091.html?dids=1147907091:1147907091&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+18,+2006&author=PETER+DOWNS&pub=Hartford+Courant&edition=&startpage=B.3&desc=ACTORS+CAST+AWAY+CARES+ "Actors Cast Away Cares"], ''Hartford Courant'', 18 October 2006 {{subscription}} </ref><ref>Bradley, Chapter 1</ref> He has been portrayed on screen in ''[[The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan]]'' (1953) and ''[[Topsy-Turvy]]'' (2000).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170616224435/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b6b3127 "''The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan'' (1953)"] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160811134127/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b81789b24 "''Topsy-Turvy''"], British Film Institute, accessed 13 December 2017.</ref> He is celebrated not only for writing the Savoy operas and his other works, but also for his influence on the development of modern American and British musical theatre.<ref name=PeterDowns/><ref>Jones, J. Bush. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WqQH31qkYNoC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=Bordman+pinafore&source=bl&ots=-4A-Dm231B&sig=UwT_XytKbxkRXtLo_OV7-_VTlps&hl=en&ei=RPzlSezEBpeUMcSs4I4J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#PPA4,M1 ''Our Musicals, Ourselves''], pp. 10–11, 2003, Brandeis University Press: Lebanon, N.H. (2003) 1584653116</ref>