Frederic Austin did not assign opus numbers to any of his music. His published output (apart from The Beggar's Opera, Polly and Perviligium Veneris) consists mainly of song settings for solo voice or chorus, while most of his major orchestral and other works remain in manuscript (see the 'MS' column). Most of Austin's works can be accurately dated, though some (mostly lacking an extant MS) are undated: see the 'Year' column.
List
Year | Genre | Work | MS |
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1891 | solo song | Hark, Hark The Lark, for high voice and piano (after Shakespeare) | MS |
1893 | chamber | Three Sketches, for cello and piano | pub. |
1898 | chamber | Piano Trio, for piano, violin and cello (not extant) | |
1900 | orchestral | Overture Richard II, for orchestra | MS |
1903 | orchestral | Prelude to a Church Festival, for strings, organ & timpani | MS |
1907 | orchestral | Spring, Rhapsody for large orchestra | MS |
1909 | orchestral | Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, Symphonic poem (after the poem by Keats) | MS |
1909 | solo song | The Twelve Days of Christmas, traditional song arranged for solo voice and piano | pub. |
1909 | solo song | Home Thoughts From Abroad, for voice & piano (after Robert Browning) | pub. |
1909 | solo song | It Was a Lover And His Lass, for voice & piano (after Shakespeare) | pub. |
1910 | solo song | Three songs for voice and piano
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pub. |
1910 | solo song | When I am dead, my dearest (after Christina Rossetti) for voice and piano | pub. |
1911 | military band | Music for The Pageant of London (Part III, section 6), for military band
|
MS |
1913 | orchestral | Symphony in E minor, for large orchestra | MS |
1913 | solo song | Two songs for voice and piano
|
pub. |
1914 | piano | Battle Songs of the Allies, arr. for piano
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pub. |
1914 | solo song | Songs in a Farmhouse, for soloists, chorus and orchestra; also with piano accomp.
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pub. |
1916 | solo song | The Shepherdess ("She walks, my lady of delight"), for voice and piano (after Alice Meynell) | pub. |
1917 | orchestral | Palsgaard, Danish sketches for large orchestra
|
pub. |
1918 | solo song | An Epitaph, for voice, string quartet & piano (after Elizabeth Cary) | pub. |
1920 | opera | The Beggar's Opera, libretto by John Gay, music by Pepusch, arr. Austin | pub. |
1920 | orchestral | Incidental music to The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, for small orchestra | MS |
1920 | solo song | Love's Pilgrimage: Three Songs for voice and piano
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pub. |
1921 | piano | The Enchanted Palace, for piano
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pub. |
1921 | solo song | To My Fair Lady, for voice and piano | pub. |
1921 | orchestral | Incidental music for The Red Lamp by W. Outram Tristram for small orchestra | MS |
1921 | chamber | Incidental music to Will Shakespeare by Clemence Dane, for flute, two violins, and cello | MS |
1922 | opera | Polly, the sequel to The Beggar's Opera, libretto by Clifford Bax after John Gay, music by Pepusch, arr. Austin | pub. |
1923 | orchestral | Incidental music to The Insect Play by Karel Čapek, for small orchestra | MS |
1923 | piano | Suite from The Insect Play, for piano
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pub. |
1923 | choral | Two May Songs, for unison chorus
|
pub. |
1923 | solo song | Emmeline ("Missing"), for voice and piano (after A. A. Milne) | pub. |
1924 | orchestral | Incidental music to The Way of the World by Congreve, for small orchestra | pub. |
1924 | opera | The Bandit, comic opera, libretto by Eden Phillpotts (unperformed) | |
1924 | voice and orchestra | The Blacksmith's Serenade, humorous scene for voice & ensemble (after Vachel Lindsay) | MS; for a made-for-radio short drama, The Blacksmith's Serenade, which was aired by the British Broadcasting Company on 15 January 1924. |
1924 | solo song | Two Songs, for unaccompanied voice (after Walter de la Mare)
|
pub. |
1924 | solo song | Christmas Eve, for voice and piano (after John Drinkwater) | pub. |
1925 | opera | Robert Burns, a ballad opera, libretto by John Drinkwater | MS |
1926 | solo song | Two Songs for voice and piano
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pub. |
1926 | choral | Two songs for 4-part chorus
|
pub. |
1926 | chamber | , for violin and piano | pub. |
1927 | chamber | Sonata for cello and piano | MS |
1927 | solo song | Three Wessex Songs, for voice and piano (after Thomas Hardy)
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pub. |
1929 | solo song | Three Songs of Unrest, for voice and piano
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pub. |
1929 | choral | It Was and Still My Care Is, (Hymn to the Lares) for 4-part unaccompanied male chorus (after Herrick) | pub. |
1930 | ensemble | Incidental music for The Devil & the Lady, by Tennyson, for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, timpani and piano | MS |
1930 | solo song | All About Me: song cycle for voice and piano (after John Drinkwater)
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pub. |
1930 | chorus | Song for City of Oxford School, for chorus and piano (after John Drinkwater) | pub. |
1930 | solo song | Fond Lover, Cease your Woeful Sighs, for voice and piano (after Clifford Bax) | pub. |
1931 | chorus and orchestra | Pervigilium Veneris, for chorus and large orchestra (after Tiberianus) | pub.; this was premiered on 8 October 1931 at the Leeds Festival, in the same concert as the premiere of William Walton's Benshazzar's Feast. |
1931 | solo song | The Fair Circassian, for voice and harp (after Richard Garnett) | pub. |
1931 | piano | Maids' Delight, Dance Suite for piano
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pub. |
1932 | orchestral | Incidental music to Prudence, by Frederick Witney for small orchestra | MS |
1932 | chorus | Content, for two-part female chorus (after Thomas Dekker) | pub. |
1935 | chamber | The Fairy Ring, for cello and piano (cello part arranged by Herbert Withers)
|
pub. |
1935 | orchestral | Overture The Sea Venturers, for large orchestra | MS |
1936 | orchestral | Robert Burns concert suite for orchestra, adapted from Austin's 1925 opera | MS |
1936 | solo song | The Sailor's Song, for voice and piano (trad.) | pub. |
1940 | choral | Four Part-songs for Unaccomanied chorus
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pub. |
1941 | solo song | Two Short Songs for bass voice and piano (after Herrick)
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pub. |
1943 | Film music | Film score for Undercover | |
1943 | solo song | Serbian Wife's Song, for voice and piano (words by Frederic Austin) | pub. |
1944 | piano and orchestra | Concertino for piano & orchestra, arr. piano and strings by ?? in 2008 | MS |
1949 | solo song | Orpheus, for voice and piano (after Shakespeare) | pub. |
1900 ? | choral | Te Deum, for choir and organ | pub. |
1914 ?? | voice and orchestra | The Agincourt Song, for baritone, chorus and orchestra | MS |
1922 ? | piano | The Moth: dramatic scene for dancing, for piano (MS has some orchestration indications) | MS |
1925 ? | piano or orchestra | Theme & Variations, for two pianos (unfinished). Also partially orchestrated by Austin for large orchestra, performing version (approx. 25 minutes) completed by Jeremy Lee-Browne | MS |
1935 ? | organ | Organ Sonata (dedicated to Percy Whitlock) | MS |
1940 ? | choral | Tyger, Tyger, for unaccompanied 8-part chorus (after Blake) | MS |
- | piano | The Sleeping Beauty, for piano | MS |
- | piano | The Garden of Delight: Sketches for a (Chinese) ballet, for piano | MS |
- | solo song | Three Scotch Songs, for voice and piano
|
pub. |
- | solo song | The Departing Lover ("Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go") for voice and piano (after John Donne) | pub. |
- | solo song | Gather Ye Rosebuds, for voice and piano (after Robert Herrick) | MS |
- | solo song | Lorna's Song, for voice and piano (after R. D. Blackmore) | |
- | solo song | My True Love Hath My Heart, for voice and piano (after Shakespeare) | MS |
- | solo song | Three Fool's Songs, for voice and piano (after Max Beerbohm's play 'Savonarola')
|
MS |
- | solo song | Two 17th Century Lyrics, for high voice and piano
|
MS |
- | orchestral | Carnaval (Schumann): arrangement for reduced orchestra | |
- | orchestral | Giselle (Adolphe Adam): arrangement for reduced orchestra | |
- | orchestral | Les Sylphides, ballet by Glazunov after Chopin: arrangement for reduced orchestra | |
- | orchestral | The Rhine Maidens: orchestration of W. G. McNaught's SSA arrangement of the opening scene of Wagner's Rhinegold |
Popular songs by Fred Austin
A number of popular and novelty songs with music by a certain "Fred Austin" were published by the Lawrence Wright Music Co. during Frederic Austin's lifetime. They include:
- I do like a Lancashire cocktail
- I'm going back to Himazas
- It’s nice to be home again
- Our heroic family (as sung by Jay Laurier)
- Some girls (are nicer than others) (as sung by Jack Lane)
Notes
- Completed 30 Aug 1900; 1st performance 12 Dec 1901, by Bournemouth Municipal Orch. under Dan Godfrey. Source: original Concert Programme
- Austin, Frederic, (arr.) (1909). The Twelve Days of Christmas (Traditional Song). London: Novello. OCLC 1254007259. Novello 13056.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - The autograph MS is in the Grainger Museum, Melbourne University
- A copy is held in the National Library of Australia
- 1st performance Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 17 Nov. 1921 (Dame Flora Robson's first stage appearance)
- Starred Claude Rains, with John Gielgud in his first stage appearance, at the Regent Theatre, London
- Milne wrote many of the poems that make up When We Were Very Young on a family holiday with the Playfairs in North Wales in 1923; Austin was also staying there. See A.A. Milne, Autobiography (1939), p. 278
- The cast included Dame Edith Evans as Millamant.
- "An Evening of Plays". The Radio Times. Vol. 2, no. 16. 11 January 1924. p. 91.
- "Plays by Wireless". The Radio Times. Vol. 2, no. 16. 11 January 1924. p. 89.
- An advance notice appeared in the New York Times, 16 July 1922
- Tennyson's juvenile play was 1st. pub. in 1930. Staged at the Arts Theatre, London. The part of Pharmaceutis was played by Alan Napier.
- City of Oxford School merged with another school in approx. 1988 to form Oxford School, Glanville Rd, Cowley, Oxford.
- From Bax's play, The Immortal Lady (1930 or 1931)
- Stephen Lloyd, William Walton: Muse of Fire
- Gwen Berryman, who later played Doris Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers for many years, appeared in this production. Gänzl, p. 368.
- An online copy (catalogued under Frederic Austin) is available at the National Library of Australia.
Sources
- Lee-Browne, Martin (1999), Nothing So Charming As Musick! London: Thames Publishing ISBN 0-905210-97-2
- Gänzl, Kurt: British Musical Theatre, vol. 2 (1915–1984), Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-520509-X
External links
- Undercover at IMDb