List of Works by Gerald Finzi

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Sources

• Boosey & Hawkes available Works
• Finzi.org Worklist
• VIAF
• Music manuscripts of Gerald Finzi at the Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
• McCullough: A History and Analysis of Gerald Finzi’s Dies Natalis
• Lee: A Performance Study of Gerald Finzi's Song Cycles

Works with Opus Number

• Op. 1 - 10 Children's Songs - Comp. 1920-1921.

1. No.1: The lily has a smooth stalk" (unison)
2. No.2: Dancing on the hill-tops" (unison)
3. No.3: Lullaby, oh lullaby" (2-part or unison)
4. No.4: Rosy maiden Winifred" (2-part)
5. No.5: Dead in the cold" (2-part)
6. No.6: Margaret has a milking-pail" (2-part)
7. No.7: Ferry me across the water" (2-part or unison)
8. No.8: There's snow on the fields" (2-part)
9. No.9: A linnet in a gilded cage" (2-part)
10. No.10: Boy Johnny" (2-part or unison)

• Op. 2 - By Footpath and Stile - Comp. 1921-1922.

1. No.1: Paying calls" ("I went by footpath and by stile") (rev. 1941)
2. No.2: Where the picnic was"
3. No.3: The oxen" (rev. 1941)
4. No.4: The master and the leaves"
5. No.5: Voices from things growing in a churchyard"
6. No.6: Exeunt omnes"

• Op. 3 - A Severn Rhapsody - Comp. 1923.
• Op. 4 - Three Psalms for unaccompanied SATB - Comp. c1925?. Unpublished/scrapped. Only one piece composed.

1. Psalm CXIX: How shall a young man

• Op. 5 - 3 Short Elegies - Comp. 1926.

1. No.1: Life a Right Shadow Is
2. No.2: This World A Hunting Is
3. No.3: This Life, Which Seems So Fair

• Op. 6 - Introit - Comp. 1925-1927 - Rev. 1942. Revised 2nd movement of withdrawn Violin Concerto.
• Op. 7 - "New Year Music" Nocturne - Comp. 1926 - Rev. 1942.
• Op. 8 - "Dies Natalis" Cantata - Comp. 1925-1939.

1. No.1: Intrada (instrumental) (?c.1926-29, with likely later revisions)
2. No.2: Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato) (?c.1926-29, with likely later revisions)
3. No.3: The Rapture (Danza) (1939)
4. No.4: Wonder (Arioso) (1926-27, with likely later revisions)
5. No.5: The Salutation (Aria) (1925-26, with likely later revisions)

original third movement, fragment: Air (The world) (c1926, discarded)

• Op. 9 - "Farewell to Arms" - Comp. 1926?-28/c1943.

1. Introduction: The helmet now
2. Aria: His golden locks

• Op. 10 - Eclogue for Piano and String Orch - Comp. late 1920s - Revised 1940s - Pub. 1957. Originally slow movement of unfinished Piano Concerto (1920s).
• Op. 11 - Romance for String Orchestra - Comp. 1928.
• Op. 12 - 2 Sonnets - Comp. 1926-28.

1. No.1: When I consider how my life is spent
2. No.2: How soon hath Time

• Op. 13a - To a Poet - Comp. 1920s-1956 - Pub. posthumously 1965.

1. No.1: To a poet a thousand years hence (1920s; rev. c1940) [text: James Elroy Flecker]
2. No.2: On parent knees (1935) [text: attrib. to Sir William Jones]
3. No.3: Intrada (?c1920s; 1956) [text: Thomas Traherne]
4. No.4: The birthnight (1956) [text: Walter de la Mare]
5. No.5: June on Castle Hill (1938-42) [text: Frank Laurence Lucas]
6. No.6: Ode on the rejection of St Cecilia (1943) [text: George Barker]

• Op. 13b - Oh Fair to See - Comp. 1921-1956 - Pub. posthumously 1965.

1. No.1: I say I'll seek her (1929; rev. 1950) [text: Thomas Hardy]
2. No.2: Oh fair to see (1929) [text: Christina Rossetti]
3. No.3: As I lay in the early sun (1921; rev. 1956) [text: Edward Shanks]
4. No.4: Only the wanderer (1925) [text: Ivor Gurney]
5. No.5: To Joy (1931) [text: Edmund Blunden]
6. No.6: Harvest (1956) [text: Edmund Blunden]
7. No.7: Since we loved (1956) [text: Robert Bridges]

• Op. 14 - A Young Man's Exhortation - Comp. c1926-29 - Pub. 1933. Texts by Thomas Hardy.

1. No.1: A young man's exhortation (1926)
2. No.2: Ditty (1928)
3. No.3: Budmouth dears (1929)
4. No.4: Her temple (1927)
5. No.5: The comet at Yell'ham (1927)
6. No.6: Shortening days (1928)
7. No.7: The sigh (1928)
8. No.8: Former beauties (1927)
9. No.9: Transformations (1929)
10. No.10: The dance continued (?c1926-29)

• Op. 15 - "Earth and Air and Rain" - Comp. 1928-1935 - Pub. 1936. Texts by Thomas Hardy.

1. No.1: Summer schemes (1932-35)
2. No.2: When I set out for Lyonnesse (1932-35). Also arr. by Finzi for voice and orchestra.
3. No.3: Waiting both (1929)
4. No.4: The Phantom (1932)
5. No.5: So I have fared (1928)
6. No.6: Rollicum-rorum (1932)
7. No.7: To Lizbie Browne (1932)
8. No.8: The clock of the years (1932)
9. No.9: In a churchyard (1932)
10. No.10: Proud songsters (?1932)

• Op. 16 - "Before and After Summer" Comp. 1932-1949 - Pub. 1949. Texts by Thomas Hardy.

1. No.1: Childhood among the ferns (1949)
2. No.2: Before and after summer (1949)
3. No.3: The self-unseeing (1949)
4. No.4: Overlooking the river (1940)
5. No.5: Channel firing (1940)
6. No.6: In the mind's eye ("The best she could") (1949)
7. No.7: The too short time (1949)
8. No.8: Epeisodia (?1932)
9. No.9: Amabel (1932)
10. No.10: He abjures love (1938)

• Op. 17 - 7 Partsongs - Comp. 1934/1937 - Pub. 1937. Texts by Robert Bridges.

1. No.1: I praise the tender flower
2. No.2: I have loved flowers that fade
3. No.3: My spirit sang all day
4. No.4: Clear and gentle stream
5. No.5: Nightingales
6. No.6: Haste on, my joys!
7. No.7: Wherefore tonight so full of care

• Op. 18 - "Let Us Garlands Bring" - Comp. 1929-1942 - Pub. 1942. Texts by Shakespeare.

1. No.1: Come away, come away, death (1938)
2. No.2: Who is Silvia? (1941)
3. No.3: Fear no more the heat o' the sun (1929)
4. No.4: O mistress mine (1942)
5. No.5: It was a lover and his lass (1940)

• Op. 19a - "Till Earth Outwears" - Comp. 1927-1956 - Pub. posthumously 1958.

1. No.1: Let me enjoy the earth (1936)
2. No.2: In years defaced (1936)
3. No.3: The market-girl (1927; rev. 1942)
4. No.4: I look into my glass (?1937)
5. No.5: It never looks like summer (1956)
6. No.6: At a lunar eclipse (1929)
7. No.7: Life laughs onwards (1955)

• Op. 19b - "I Said to Love" - Comp. 1928-56 - Pub. posthumously 1958. Texts by Thomas Hardy.

1. No.1: I need not go (1936)
2. No.2: At Middle-Field Gate in February (1956)
3. No.3: Two lips (1928)
4. No.4: In five-score summers (1956)
5. No.5: For life I had never cared greatly (1956)
6. No.6: I said to love (1956)

• Op. 20 - The Fall of the Leaf (Elegy) - Comp. 1926-29. Revised 1940-42 - Pub. posthumously 1958. Third movement of the unfinished "The Bud, the Blossom and the Berry", completed by Howard Ferguson.
• Op. 21 -Interlude for Oboe and String Quartet - Comp. 1932-1936 - Pub. 1936.
• Op. 22 - Elegy - Comp. 1940 - First performed 1954 - Pub. 1983.
• Op. 23 - 5 Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano - Comp. 1938-1944 - Pub. 1945.
• Op. 24 - Prelude and Fugue - Comp. 1938 - Pub. 1942.
• Op. 25 - Prelude for String Orchestra - Comp. c.1925 - Pub. posthumously 1958. First movement of the unfinished "The Bud, the Blossom and the Berry".
• Op. 26 - Lo, the full, final sacrifice - Comp. 1946 - Pub. 1946.
• Op. 27 - 3 Anthems, for Chorus and Organ - Comp. 1947-1953 - Pub. 1948, 1952, 1954.

1. No.1: My Lovely One, choral anthem (1947)
2. No.2: God is Gone Up (1951)
3. No.3: Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast (1953)

• Op. 28 - Love's Labour's Lost - Incidental music to Shakespeare's Play - Comp. 1946 - Pub. 2005.

1. Op.28a: "Four Songs from Loves Labour's Lost" Voice and small orchestra - Pub. 1948
2. Op.28b: Love's Labour's Lost, Suite 10 pieces for orchestra - Reworked for 1952 stage production - Includes "Three Soliloquies".

• Op. 29 - Intimations of Immortality - Comp. 1930s-1950 - Pub. 1950.
• Op. 30 - For St. Cecilia - Comp. 1946-1947 - Pub. 1948.
• Op. 31 - Clarinet Concerto - Comp. 1948-1949 - Pub. 1951.
• Op. 32 - Thou Didst Delight My Eyes - for male chorus - Comp. 1951 - Pub. 1952. Text by Robert Bridges.
• Op. 33 - "All this night" - Choral Motet - Comp. 1951
• Op. 34 - Muses and Graces - for unison female chorus and piano or strings - Comp. 1950. Text by Ursula Wood. "Overstone School Song".
• Op. 35 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Choral song for for unaccompanied SATB - Comp. 1951.
• Op. 36 - Magnificat - Comp. 1952 - Orchestrated 1956.
• Op. 37 - White-Flowering Days - Comp. 1952-1953.
• Op. 38 - Grand Fantasia and Toccata - Comp. 1928?/1953. Combines "Fantasia", 1928? (part of unfinished Piano Concerto), and Toccata, 1953.
• Op. 39 - In terra pax - Comp. 1954 - re-scored 1956.
• Op. 40 - Cello Concerto - Comp. 1951-52/1954-55.

Works without Opus Number

• The twilit waters - Voice and piano - Comp. 1919 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Fiona Macleod.
• The reed player - Voice and orchestra - Comp. 1919 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Fiona Macleod.
• A cradle song - Voice and piano - Comp. 1919 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Padraic Colum.
• The fairies - Voice and piano - Comp. 1919 - Pub. 1923, later withdrawn. Text by Robert Herrick.
• The terrible robber man - Voice and piano - Comp. 1920 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Padraic Colum.
• Tall nettles - Voice and piano - Comp. 1920 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Edward Thomas.
• O dear me! - Voice and piano - Comp. 1920 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Walter de la Mare.
• Before the paling of the stars - Voice and organ - Comp. 1920 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Christina Rossetti.
• Rondel - Voice and piano - Comp. 1920 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Chaucer.
• Ceremonies - Voice and piano - Comp. 1920 - Pub. 1923, later withdrawn. Text by Robert Herrick.
• A passer-by - Piano - Comp. 1921 - Unpublished & "scrapped".
• The battle - Voice and piano - Comp. 1921 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by W.H. Davies.
• Concerto for Small Orchestra and Solo Violin - Comp. 1925-28 - mvts 2&3 fp. 1927; full perf. 1928; Pub. posthumously, 2001.

1. No.1a: Allegro con brio [original first movement] - Comp. 1925-26, discarded.
2. No.1b: Allegro [replacement first movement] - Comp. 1927-28, discarded.
3. No.2: Molto sereno - Revised as: Introit - Comp. 1925 - Pub. 1933, rev. 1942.
4. No.3: Hornpipe Rondo: Allegro risoluto - Comp. 1926-27, discarded.

• Six Elegies

1. No.4: Time was upon the wing - Baritone solo and female chorus - Comp. 1921-22 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Robert Herrick.
2. Nos.1-3, 5-6: moved to "Three Motets", 1922-23

• The Mound - Song cycle - Voice and string quartet - Planned 1921, never composed. Texts by Thomas Hardy.
• The conclusion (retitled: Epitaph) ("Even such is Time") - Unison male chorus and piano - Comp. 1922 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by Sir Walter Raleigh.
• The cupboard - Voice and piano - Comp. 1922 - Pub. 1923, later withdrawn. Text by Robert Graves.
• Allegro, for Toy Symphony Orchestra - Comp. 1922 - Unpublished & "scrapped".
• "The Brightness of this Day" Christmas Hymn - Chorus, baritone solo and organ - Comp. 1922-1923 - Pub. 1925, later withdrawn.
• Two Motets (first titled "Six Anthems") - Baritone, chorus and orchestra or organ - Comp. 1922-1923 - Pub. 1925, later withdrawn.
• Three Motets (formerly titled "Six Elegies") - Soloists, double chorus and orchestra - Comp. 1922-23 - Unpublished & "scrapped".
• Requiem da camera - Baritone, chorus and orchestra - Comp. 1923-1924 - Revised 1930s - Orchestration completed, 1984 - Pub. 1992. Posthumously listed as "English Pastorals and Elegies", op. 3, no. 2
• English hills - Voice and piano - Comp. c1922-1925 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by John Freeman.
• Days too short - Voice and piano - Comp. 1925 - Unpublished & "scrapped". Text by W.H. Davies.
• Piano Concerto - Comp. late 1920s, unfinished.

1. No.1: Fantasia - Comp. 1928? - Revised and reused in Grand Fantasia and Toccata (1953).
2. No.2: [slow movement] - Comp. late 1920s - Revised in 1940s - Published posthumously as Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra, Op.10 (1957)

• The Bud, the Blossom and the Berry - Chamber orchestra - Comp. c1920s - Uncompleted, piano duet versions of movements 1 & 3 extant.

1. No.1: Revised as Prelude for String Orchestra, Op.25 (fp.1957)
2. No.2: ???
3. No.3: Revised as "The Fall of the Leaf (Elegy)", op. 20 - Comp. 1926-1929 - Revised 1940-1942. Orchestration completed by Howard Ferguson.

• Toccata - Piano and orchestra - Comp. 1953 - Incorporated into Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op.38 (1953).
• "In Years Defaced" 6 Songs - Voice and orchestra - Pub. 2000 - All songs previously published; one orchestrated by Finzi, others orchestrated by Matthews, Roberts, Alexander, Weir, and Payne.