1950-54

Banbury Grammar School

• Partita for string orchestra TMM 1950 / CC 1951
• Incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (small orchestra) TMM 1950 Banbury Guardian
• Songs for voices and piano from T.S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes 1951 Banbury Guardian [see 1935 listing]
• Two wedding marches for organ TMM 1950
• Variations for double symphony orchestra (abandoned) TMM 1951
• Guitar Sonata in E (unplayable) TMM 1951
• Concerto for flute and strings TMM 1951 / Concerto (flute, strings) CC 1951
• Terrible Crystal: three Hopkins sonnets for baritone, chorus and orchestra TMM 1952
• * Wiegenlied (piano) 08/30/1952 Leicester McMaster Univ
• * Sonatina for Anne Field 12/25/1952 Banbury
• Passacaglia for orchestra VB, LW [ca 1952] / Passacaglia (orchestra) CC 1961
• Toccata and Fugue for cathedral organ TMM 1953
• * The Eve of Saint Venus (opera libretto and music by Burgess) (piano/vocal score) n.d. [1953] incomplete

Notes

Works that are not asterisked no longer exist or their location is unknown. Most of these are mentioned by Burgess himself in his writings.

TMM = This Man and Music; CC = Contemporary Composers; LW = Little Wilson and Big God; VB = A Vision of Battlements

Musical scores exist of the works that are asterisked. All of these are located at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, unless otherwise indicated. Locations are indicated within { } brackets.

{private} = manuscript is in a private collection or owned by an individual

Dates of composition, where given, are the dates signed by Burgess on the manuscript.

Dates in brackets are not signed on the manuscript by Burgess but are otherwise known or estimated.

n.d. = no date

Paul Phillips, May 5th 2004