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| Op. 1 || Ten Children’s Songs || || || ||
| Op. 1 || Ten Children’s Songs || || || ||
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| Op. 2 || By Footpath and Stile || || || ||
| Op. 2 || By Footpath and Stile || 1922 || || <li>voice</li><li>string quartet</li> || <li>song cycle of poems by English poet [[Thomas Hardy]]</li>
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| Op. 3 || English Pastorals and Elegies<br /><li>A Severn Rhapsody</li><li>Requiem da camera</li> || || || ||
| Op. 3 || English Pastorals and Elegies<br /><li>A Severn Rhapsody</li><li>Requiem da camera</li> || || || ||
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| Op. 4 || Psalms for unaccompanied SATB || || || Mixed SATB choir ||
| Op. 4 || Psalms for unaccompanied SATB || || || <li>Mixed SATB choir</li> ||
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| Op. 5 || Three Short Elegies || || || ||
| Op. 5 || Three Short Elegies || || || ||
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| Op. 6 || Introit (Violin Concerto) || || || || <li>original the second movement of a completed violin concerto premiered in London under Ralph Vaughan Williams. Finzi was not satisfied with it and withdrew the first and third movements.</li>
| Op. 6 || Introit (Violin Concerto) || || || ||
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| Op. 7 || New Year Music, Nocturne for Orchestra in C-Sharp Minor || || || ||
| Op. 7 || New Year Music, Nocturne for Orchestra in C-Sharp Minor || || || ||
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| Op. 8 || [[Dies Natalis (cantata)|Dies natalis]] (cantata for strings and solo voice) || 1938–1939 || [[Three Choirs Festival]] in August 1946 || Soprano or tenor solo<br />String Orchestra || Four texts from metaphysical poet and theologian [[Thomas Traherne]] (1636/37–1674)
| Op. 8 || [[Dies Natalis (cantata)|Dies natalis]] (cantata for strings and solo voice) || 1938–1939 || [[Three Choirs Festival]] in August 1946 || <li>Soprano or tenor solo</li><li>String Orchestra</li> || Four texts from metaphysical poet and theologian [[Thomas Traherne]] (1636/37–1674)
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| Op. 9 || Farewell to Arms || || || ||
| Op. 9 || Farewell to Arms || 1944 || || ||
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| Op. 10 || Eclogue for piano and strings || || || ||
| Op. 10 || Eclogue for piano and strings || || || || <li>Thought to be intended as a piano concerto, unfinished and named posthumously by publisher</li>
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| Op. 11 || Romance for String Orchestra || || || ||
| Op. 11 || Romance for String Orchestra || || || ||
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| Op. 13b || "Oh Fair to See" || || || ||
| Op. 13b || "Oh Fair to See" || || || ||
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| Op. 14 || A Young Man’s Exhortation || || || ||
| Op. 14 || A Young Man’s Exhortation || || || <li>voice</li><li>piano</li> || <li>song cycle of poems by English poet [[Thomas Hardy]]</li>
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| Op. 15 || Earth and Air and Rain || || || ||
| Op. 15 || Earth and Air and Rain || || || <li>voice</li><li>piano</li> || <li>song cycle of poems by English poet [[Thomas Hardy]]</li>
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| Op. 16 || Before and After Summer || || || ||
| Op. 16 || Before and After Summer || || || ||
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| Op. 17 || Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges<br /><li>No. 1: "I praise the tender flower"</li><li>No. 2: "I have loved flowers that fade"</li><li>No. 3: "My spirit sang all day"</li><li>No. 4: "Clear and gentle stream"</li><li>No. 5: "Nightingales"</li><li>No. 6: "Haste on, my joys!"</li><li>No. 7: "Wherefore tonight so full of care</li> || || || ||
| Op. 17 || Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges<br /><li>No. 1: "I praise the tender flower"</li><li>No. 2: "I have loved flowers that fade"</li><li>No. 3: "My spirit sang all day"</li><li>No. 4: "Clear and gentle stream"</li><li>No. 5: "Nightingales"</li><li>No. 6: "Haste on, my joys!"</li><li>No. 7: "Wherefore tonight so full of care</li> || || || ||
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| Op. 18 || Let Us Garlands Bring || || || ||
| Op. 18 || Let Us Garlands Bring || 1942 || || || <li>settings of songs from the plays of [[William Shakespeare]]</li>
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| Op. 19a || Till Earth Outwears || || || ||
| Op. 19a || Till Earth Outwears || || || ||
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| Op. 22 || Elegy || || || ||
| Op. 22 || Elegy || || || ||
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| Op. 23 || Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano || || || || Catalogued as Op. 23a in an arrangement orchestrated by [[Lawrence Ashmore]]
| Op. 23 || Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano || || || || <li>Catalogued as Op. 23a in an arrangement orchestrated by [[Lawrence Ashmore]]</li>
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| Op. 24 || Prelude and Fugue || || || ||
| Op. 24 || Prelude and Fugue || || || ||
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| Op. 25 || Prelude for strings || || || ||
| Op. 25 || Prelude for strings || || || ||
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| Op. 26 || [[Lo, the full, final sacrifice]] || 1946 || 21 September 1946—St Matthew's Day || <li>mixed SATB choir</li><li>organ</li> ||<li>festival anthem commissioned by [[Walter Hussey|the Revd Walter Hussey]] for the 53rd anniversary of the consecration of [[St Matthew's Church, Northampton]]</li><li>orchestrated by Finzi for 1947 Three Choirs Festival
| Op. 26 || [[Lo, the full, final sacrifice]] || 1946 || 21 September 1946—St Matthew's Day || <li>mixed SATB choir</li><li>organ</li> ||<li>festival anthem commissioned by [[Walter Hussey|the Revd Walter Hussey]] for the 53rd anniversary of the consecration of [[St Matthew's Church, Northampton]]</li><li>orchestrated by Finzi for 1947 Three Choirs Festival</li>
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| Op. 27 || Three Anthems<br /><li>No. 1: ‘My lovely one’</li><li>No. 2: ‘God is gone up’</li><li>No. 3: ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’</li> || || || ||
| Op. 27 || Three Anthems<br /><li>No. 1: ‘My lovely one’</li><li>No. 2: ‘God is gone up’</li><li>No. 3: ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’</li> || || || ||
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| Op. 28a || Love’s Labour’s Lost- songs || || || ||
| Op. 28a || Love’s Labour’s Lost- songs || 1946 || || || <li>incidental music to Shakespeare's [[Love Labour's Lost|play]]</li>
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| Op. 28b || Love’s Labour’s Lost- suite || || || ||
| Op. 28b || Love’s Labour’s Lost- suite || 1946 || || || <li>incidental music to Shakespeare's [[Love Labour's Lost|play]]</li>
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| Op. 29 || [[Intimations of Immortality]] || late 1930s, completed 1950 || [[Three Choirs Festival]], conducted by [[Herbert Sumsion]] || <li>tenor solo</li><li>chorus</li><li>and orchestra</li> || <li>setting of nine of the eleven stanzas of [[William Wordsworth]]'s 1804 poem "[[Ode: Intimations of Immortality]]",
| Op. 29 || [[Intimations of Immortality]] || late 1930s, completed 1950 || [[Three Choirs Festival]], conducted by [[Herbert Sumsion]] || <li>tenor solo</li><li>chorus</li><li>and orchestra</li> || <li>setting of nine of the eleven stanzas of [[William Wordsworth]]'s 1804 poem "[[Ode: Intimations of Immortality]]"</li>
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| Op. 30 || For St Cecilia || || || ||
| Op. 30 || For St Cecilia || || || || <li>text by English poet and author [[Edmund Blunden]]</li>
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| Op. 31 || Clarinet Concerto || || || ||
| Op. 31 || Clarinet Concerto || || || ||
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| Op. 37 || White-flowering days || || || ||
| Op. 37 || White-flowering days || || || ||
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| Op. 38 || Grand Fantasia and Toccata || || || ||
| Op. 38 || Grand Fantasia and Toccata || || || || <li>Thought to be intended as a piano concerto, unfinished and named posthumously by publisher</li>
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| Op. 39 || In terra pax || || || ||
| Op. 39 || In terra pax || || || || <li>Text drawn from English poet [[Robert Bridges]] and the [[Gospel of Luke]]</li>
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| Op. 40 || [[Cello Concerto (Finzi)|Cello Concerto]] || 1955 || 19 July 1955 at the [[Cheltenham Music Festival]], conducted by [[John Barbirolli]], [[Hallé Orchestra]], and [[Christopher Bunting]], cello. || cello soloist<br />orchestra || in three movements:<br /><li>I. Allegro moderato<li /><li>II. Andante quieto<li /><li>III. Rondo: Adagio—Allegro giocoso<li />
| Op. 40 || [[Cello Concerto (Finzi)|Cello Concerto]] || 1955 || 19 July 1955 at the [[Cheltenham Music Festival]], conducted by [[John Barbirolli]], [[Hallé Orchestra]], and [[Christopher Bunting]], cello. || <li>cello soloist</li><li>orchestra</li> || in three movements:<br /><li>I. Allegro moderato</li><li>II. Andante quieto</li><li>III. Rondo: Adagio—Allegro giocoso</li>
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Revision as of 14:31, 24 July 2013

The musical works of English composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are listed below.[1] The most common method of numbering Finzi's works is by opus number as assigned by his publishers during his lifetime.

List of compositions by opus number

Opus Number Name of composition Year composed Premiere performance Scoring Notes
Op. 1 Ten Children’s Songs
Op. 2 By Footpath and Stile 1922
  • voice
  • string quartet
    		•
  • song cycle of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy
    • Op. 3 English Pastorals and Elegies
  • A Severn Rhapsody
  • Requiem da camera
    		•
    Op. 4 Psalms for unaccompanied SATB
  • Mixed SATB choir
    		•
    Op. 5 Three Short Elegies
    Op. 6 Introit (Violin Concerto)
  • original the second movement of a completed violin concerto premiered in London under Ralph Vaughan Williams. Finzi was not satisfied with it and withdrew the first and third movements.
    • Op. 7 New Year Music, Nocturne for Orchestra in C-Sharp Minor
    Op. 8 Dies natalis (cantata for strings and solo voice) 1938–1939 Three Choirs Festival in August 1946
  • Soprano or tenor solo
  • String Orchestra
    		•  Four texts from metaphysical poet and theologian Thomas Traherne (1636/37–1674)
    Op. 9 Farewell to Arms 1944
    Op. 10 Eclogue for piano and strings
  • Thought to be intended as a piano concerto, unfinished and named posthumously by publisher
    • Op. 11 Romance for String Orchestra
    Op. 12 Two Sonnets by John Milton
    Op. 13a "To a Poet"
    Op. 13b "Oh Fair to See"
    Op. 14 A Young Man’s Exhortation
  • voice
  • piano
    		•
  • song cycle of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy
    • Op. 15 Earth and Air and Rain
  • voice
  • piano
    		•
  • song cycle of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy
    • Op. 16 Before and After Summer
    Op. 17 Seven Partsongs – Poems by Robert Bridges
  • No. 1: "I praise the tender flower"
  • No. 2: "I have loved flowers that fade"
  • No. 3: "My spirit sang all day"
  • No. 4: "Clear and gentle stream"
  • No. 5: "Nightingales"
  • No. 6: "Haste on, my joys!"
  • No. 7: "Wherefore tonight so full of care
    		•
    Op. 18 Let Us Garlands Bring 1942
  • settings of songs from the plays of William Shakespeare
    • Op. 19a Till Earth Outwears
    Op. 19b I Said to Love
    Op. 20 The Fall of the Leaf
    Op. 21 Interlude
    Op. 22 Elegy
    Op. 23 Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano
  • Catalogued as Op. 23a in an arrangement orchestrated by Lawrence Ashmore
    • Op. 24 Prelude and Fugue
    Op. 25 Prelude for strings
    Op. 26 Lo, the full, final sacrifice 1946 21 September 1946—St Matthew's Day
  • mixed SATB choir
  • organ
    		•
  • festival anthem commissioned by the Revd Walter Hussey for the 53rd anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton
  • orchestrated by Finzi for 1947 Three Choirs Festival
    • Op. 27 Three Anthems
  • No. 1: ‘My lovely one’
  • No. 2: ‘God is gone up’
  • No. 3: ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’
    		•
    Op. 28a Love’s Labour’s Lost- songs 1946
  • incidental music to Shakespeare's play
    • Op. 28b Love’s Labour’s Lost- suite 1946
  • incidental music to Shakespeare's play
    • Op. 29 Intimations of Immortality late 1930s, completed 1950 Three Choirs Festival, conducted by Herbert Sumsion
  • tenor solo
  • chorus
  • and orchestra
    		•
  • setting of nine of the eleven stanzas of William Wordsworth's 1804 poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
    • Op. 30 For St Cecilia
  • text by English poet and author Edmund Blunden
    • Op. 31 Clarinet Concerto
    Op. 32 Thou didst delight my eyes
    Op. 33 All this night
    Op. 34 Muses and Graces
    Op. 35 Let us now praise famous men
    Op. 36 Magnificat
    Op. 37 White-flowering days
    Op. 38 Grand Fantasia and Toccata
  • Thought to be intended as a piano concerto, unfinished and named posthumously by publisher
    • Op. 39 In terra pax
  • Text drawn from English poet Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke
    • Op. 40 Cello Concerto 1955 19 July 1955 at the Cheltenham Music Festival, conducted by John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra, and Christopher Bunting, cello.
  • cello soloist
  • orchestra
    		•  in three movements:
  • I. Allegro moderato
  • II. Andante quieto
  • III. Rondo: Adagio—Allegro giocoso

    • References

    1. ^ Finzi Resources geraldfinzi.org Opus Numbers. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
    • The official Gerald Finzi website, created for the composer's family and including latest news of concerts featuring Finzi's works.
    • A Finzi page on the website of his publisher Boosey & Hawkes, including a complete list of works published by Boosey & Hawkes and a discography.
    • The Finzi Trust, the official Finzi Trust website: listen to Finzi's music and read about his life and works, the Trust's work and the Finzi Travel Scholarships.
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