This table of works by the English composer Eugene Aynsley Goossens initially lists them by opus number. They are sortable by other criteria, such as title, key, year of composition, and text authors.
Table of compositions
| Title | Category | Key | Scoring | Op. | Year | Genre | Text | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variations on a Chinese Theme for orchestra | Orchestra | 1 | 1911 | Variations | 27 minutes + (ABC Classics cd) | |||
| Miniature Fantasy for string orchestra | String Orchestra | 2 | 1911 | Fantasy | 8 minutes | |||
| Symphonic Poem “Perseus” | Orchestra | 3 | 1912 | Symphonic Poem | ||||
| Old Chinese Folk-SongFrom the Yang-Tse-Kiang | Chamber | violin or cello, piano | 4, No.1 | 1912 | Folk Song | Dedication: Achille Rivarde, Esq. | ||
| “The Eternal Rhythm” for orchestra | Orchestra | 5 | 1913 | Symphonic Poem | 20 minutes + (ABC Classics cd) | |||
| Suite | Chamber | flute, violin, harp (or 2 violins, piano) | 6 | 1914 | Suite | Dedication to Miriam Timothy | ||
| 5 Impressions of a HolidayCinq impressions d'un séjour à la campagne | Chamber | violin (or flute), cello , piano | 7 | 1916 | Impressions | |||
| 8 | ||||||||
| 2 MélodiesTwo Songs, Deux mélodies | Songs | voice (soprano or tenor), piano | 9 | 1914 | Song Romantic |
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| Concert Study | Piano | C major | piano | 10 | Study | 3 minutes. Dedication: Winifred Christie (1882–1965) | ||
| 11 | ||||||||
| Phantasy Quartet | String Quartet | 2 violins, viola, and cello | 12 | 1915 | Fantasy | 1 movement. Dedication: To my friends, the London String Quartet (1st Violin: Albert Sammons 2nd Violin: Thomas W. Petre Viola: Harry Waldo Warner Cello: Charles Warwick Evans) | ||
| Rhapsody | Chamber | cello, piano | 13 | 1917 | Rhapsody | Dedication: Warwick-Evans | ||
| String Quartet | String Quartet | C major | 14 | 1915 | 25 minutes. Dedication: Colleagues of the Philharmonic String Quartet--Arthur Beckwith (1st Violin), Raymond Jeremy (Viola), Cedric Sharpe (Cello) | |||
| “By the Tarn” for string orchestra | String Orchestra | 15, No.1 | 1919 | Sketch | 5 minutes + (EMI cd) | |||
| “Jack O’Lantern” for string orchestra(Ignis fatuus) | String Orchestra | 15, No.2 | 1919 | Sketch | ||||
| 2 Proses Lyriques | Songs | voice, piano | 16 | 1917 | Song | Edwin Evans (1844-1923) | Dedication: G. Jean-Aubry | |
| Persian Idylls | Songs | voice, piano | 17 | 1918 | Song | Edwin Evans (1844-1923) | Dedication: To my friend Maurice d'Oisly | |
| “Tam O’Shanter”-Scherzo after Burns for orchestra | Orchestra | 17a | 1918 | Scherzo | ||||
| Kaleidoscope12 Short Pianoforte Pieces | Piano | piano | 18 | 1917 | Dedication: Miss d'Erlanger | |||
| Three Songs | Songs | voice, piano | 19 | 1917 | 1, 3. Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry) (1882-1950) as G. Jean-Aubry; 2. Edwin Evans (1844-1923) | Dedication: 1. Adolfo Salazar; 3. à Madame Alvar | ||
| 4 Conceits | Piano | piano | 20 | 1917 | Conceit | 8 minutes. Dedication: To William Murdock | ||
| Violin Sonata No.1 | Violin | E minor | violin, piano | 21 | 1919 | Sonata | 25 minutes. Dedication: Albert Sammons | |
| Philip II | Orchestra | 22 | 1918-19 | Prelude | 10 minutes. Incidental music for Emile Verhaeren's "Philip II." | |||
| The Curse | Songs | E minor | voice, piano | 22b | 1921 | Song | Herbert Reginald Barbor (1893-1933) | Dedication: Pedro Morales |
| Piano Quintet | Piano Quintet | G minor | 2 violins, viola, cello, piano | 23 | 1921 | Dedication: To my friend George Davison | ||
| 24 | ||||||||
| Nature Poems | Piano | piano | 25 | 1919 | Poem | Dedication: To Benno Moiseiwitsch | ||
| 3 SongsThree songs with string quartet accompaniment | Songs | F major, E♭ minor, C major | voice, 2 violins, viola, cello | 26 | 1920 | Song | 1. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542); 2. John Fletcher (1579-1625); 3. Richard Barnefield (1574-1627) | |
| 27 | ||||||||
| Hommage à Debussy | Piano | piano | 28 | 1920 | Hommage | |||
| L'Ecole en crinoline | Piano | piano | 29 | Ballet | ||||
| Rhythmic Dance for orchestra | Orchestra | 30 | 1927 | Dance | 3 minutes | |||
| SilenceA choral fragment | Orchestra, Vocal | chorus (SSAATTBB), orchestra | 31 | 1922 | Fragment | Walter De la Mare (1873-1956) | Composed expressly for the Three Choirs Musical Festival, Gloucester, 1922. | |
| 32 | ||||||||
| Suite from 'East of Suez'Suite from the Incidental Music to 'East of Suez' | Orchestra | orchestra | 33 | 1922 | Suite | W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) | Commissioned by director Basil Dean | |
| Sinfonietta | 34 | 1922 | 15 minutes | |||||
| Lyric Poem for Violin and Orchestra | 35 | 7 minutes | ||||||
| Fantasy for 9 wind instruments | 36 | |||||||
| Phantasy Sextet | Chamber | 3 violins, viola, 2 cellos, | 37 | 1923 | Fantasy | 20 minutes. Dedication: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge | ||
| Two Studies / Ballades1. Folk Tune (Sheep-Shearing Song) | Piano | piano | 38 No.1 | 1923 | Study / Ballade | 2:48 “Sheep Shearing Song” was collected in Somerset by English folk-musicologist Cecil Sharp in 1904 from the singing of William King | ||
| Two Studies / Ballades2. Scherzo | Piano | piano | 38 No.2 | 1923 | Study / Ballade | 2:56 | ||
| 39 | ||||||||
| Variations on “Cadet Rousselle” for orchestra | Orchestra | 40 | 1930 | Variations | 3 minutes + (Dutton cd). Arranged by Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Eugene Goossens; orchestrated by Eugene Goossens | |||
| Pastorale et Arlequinade for flute, oboe, and piano | Chamber | flute, oboe, piano | 41 | 8 minutes. Chandos CD | ||||
| Ships, three preludes for piano | Piano | 42 | Prelude | |||||
| 43 | ||||||||
| Three Greek Dances for small orchestra | 44 | 14 minutes | ||||||
| Oboe Concerto | Concerto | 45 | 1927 (1927)-1929 | Concerto | 12 minutes + (ABC Classics and ASV cds cd). Dedicated to Léon Goossens | |||
| JudithAn Opera in One Act | Opera | 46 | 1929 | Opera | Arnold Bennett | 74 minutes | ||
| Concertino for string octet or string orchestra | String Octet, String Orchestra | string octet (or string orchestra) | 47 | 1928 | Concertino | 13 minutes + (ABC Classics cd). Dedication: to my friend André Mangeot. 4 movements. IMSLP | ||
| 48 | ||||||||
| 49 | ||||||||
| Violin Sonata No. 2 | Violin | violin, piano | 50 | Sonata | ||||
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| 53 | ||||||||
| Don Juan de MañaraOpera in Four Acts | Opera | 54 | 1935 | Opera | Arnold Bennett | First performed in London at Covent Garden in 1937 | ||
| Three Pictures for Flute and Orchestra | Orchestra | 55 | 1935 | Picture | 18 minutes | |||
| Two pieces | Piano | piano | 56 | |||||
| Romance | Violin | violin, piano | 57 | |||||
| Symphony No.1 | Orchestra | 58 | 1940 | Symphony | ||||
| String Quartet No.2 | String Quartet | C major | 2 violins, viola, cello | 59 | 1942 | 32 minutes. Dedicated to my dear friend Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, on her birthday, October 30th, 1940 | ||
| Phantasy Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | Concerto | 60 | 1942 | Fantasy | ||||
| Cowboy Fantasy for orchestra | Orchestra | 61 | 1942 | Fantasy | ||||
| Symphony No.2 | Orchestra | 62 | 1942-1944 | Symphony | ||||
| Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra | Concerto | 63 | 1948 | Fantasy | ||||
| “The Apocalypse” | Oratoria | soprano, contralto, tenor, bass, double chorus and orchestra | 64 | 1953 | Oratoria | Revelation of St John the Divine | 110 minutes | |
| Concert Piece for two harps, oboe, cor anglais and orchestra | Concerto | 65 | 1958 | Concert Piece | ||||
| Divertissement for orchestra | Orchestra | 66 | 1960 | Divertissement | 19 minutes | |||
| Islamite Dance | Chamber | oboe, piano | 1962 | Dance | 2.5 minutes. Paris: Alphonse Leduc. IMSLP | |||
| Coronation Fanfare for orchestra | Orchestra | 1953 | Fanfare | |||||
| Victory(Jubilee) Fanfare and ‘God Save The Queen’ for orchestra | Orchestra | 1945 | Anthem | 4 minutes | ||||
| “Star-Spangled Banner” for orchestra | Orchestra | 1953 | Anthem | 4 minutes | ||||
| Scherzo Fantasque | Chamber | flute, piano | 1962 | Scherzo | 2.5 minutes. Paris: Alphonse Leduc. A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 2 | |||
| Vieille Chanson à Boire | Chamber | bassoon, piano | 1962 | Drinking Song | 2 minutes. Paris: Alphonse Leduc. A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 2 |
List of compositions
SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL MUSIC
- 1911-12: Variations on a Chinese Theme for orchestra, op.1: 27 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- 1911: Miniature Fantasy for string orchestra, op.2: 8 minutes
- 1912: Symphonic Poem “Perseus”, op.3
- 1913: “The Eternal Rhythm” for orchestra, op.5: 20 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- 1916: Two Sketches for clarinet and strings: 7 minutes
- 1917: “Four Conceits” for orchestra, op.20: 8 minutes
- 1917-18: “Tam O’Shanter”-Scherzo after Burns for orchestra, op.17a: 3 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- 1919: “By the Tarn” for string orchestra, op.15, No.1: 5 minutes * + (EMI cd)
- “Jack O’Lantern” for string orchestra, op.15, No.2
- Prelude to “Philip II” for small orchestra, op.22: 9 minutes
- Lyric Poem for Violin and Orchestra, op.35: 7 minutes
- c.1922:“Silence”-A choral fragment for chorus and orchestra, op.31: 8 minutes
- 1922: Sinfonietta, op.34: 15 minutes
- 1923: Phantasy Sextet for Strings for string orchestra, op.37
- 1927: Rhythmic Dance for orchestra, op.30: 3 minutes
- Three Greek Dances for small orchestra, op.44: 14 minutes
- 1927-29:Oboe Concerto, op.45: 12 minutes + (ABC Classics and ASV cds cd)
- 1928: Concertino for double string orchestra, op.47: 13 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- 1929: “Judith” for orchestra (Ballet music from the Opera) + (Dutton cd)
- 1930: Variations on “Cadet Roussel” for orchestra: 3 minutes + (Dutton cd)
- 1933: Suite “Kaleidoscope” for orchestra, op.18: 9 minutes + (ABC Classics and Signum cds)
- 1935: Three Pictures for Flute and Orchestra, op.55: 18 minutes
- Intermezzo from “Don Juan de Manara” for orchestra: 5 minutes
- 1938-40:Symphony No.1, op.58: 39 minutes * + (ABC Classics and Chandos cds)
- 1942: Pastorale for string orchestra, op.59: 8 minutes
- Phantasy Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op.60: 25 minutes + (Chandos cd)
- Cowboy Fantasy for orchestra, op.61
- 1943-45:Symphony No.2, op.62: 38 minutes * + (ABC Classics and Chandos cds)
- 1944: Fanfare for the Merchant Marine for brass ensemble and percussion, Duration: 3 minutes
- 1945: Victory(Jubilee) Fanfare and ‘God Save The Queen’ for orchestra: 4 minutes
- 1948: Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op.63: 22 minutes (Chandos cd)
- 1949 Iberia Suite, Three movements arranged for orchestra, Duration: 15 minutes
- 1953: Coronation Fanfare for orchestra
- “The Apocalypse” for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass, double chorus and orchestra, op.64: 110 minutes *
- 1956-60: Divertissement for orchestra, op.66: 18 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- 1958: Concert Piece for two harps, oboe, cor anglais and orchestra, op.65: 22 minutes + (ABC Classics cd)
- “Star-Spangled Banner” for orchestra: 4 minutes
- Two Nature Poems for orchestra: 12 minutes
- 1941: Hommage à Paderewski: 2:22
- 1960: Capriccio, piano: 2:33
- 1960: Forlane and toccata, piano: 2:28
- Sheep-Shearing Song, piano, op.38: No. 1. Folk-Tune: 3 minutes
External links
- "IMSLP". Eugene Goossens.
- "National Library of Australia". Eugene Goossens.
- "Australian Music Centre". Eugene Goossens.