List of compositions by Frederic Austin

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
YearGenreWorkMS
1891solo songHark, Hark The Lark, for high voice and piano (after Shakespeare)MS
1893chamberThree Sketches, for cello and pianopub.
1898chamberPiano Trio, for piano, violin and cello (not extant)
1900orchestralOverture Richard II, for orchestra[1]MS
1903orchestralPrelude to a Church Festival, for strings, organ & timpaniMS
1907orchestralSpring, Rhapsody for large orchestraMS
1909orchestralIsabella, or the Pot of Basil, Symphonic poem (after the poem by Keats)MS
1909choralThe Twelve Days of Christmas, for mixed chorus (trad.), also for solo voice and pianopub.
1909solo songHome Thoughts From Abroad, for voice & piano (after Robert Browning)pub.
1909solo songIt Was a Lover And His Lass, for voice & piano (after Shakespeare)pub.
1910solo songThree songs for voice and piano
  1. Proud Maisie (after Sir Walter Scott)
  2. Sigh no nore, ladies (after Shakespeare)
  3. My Susan was a Bonny Lass (after H. E. Hunt)
pub.
1910solo songWhen I am dead, my dearest (after Christina Rossetti) for voice and pianopub.
1911military bandMusic for The Pageant of London (Part III, section 6), for military band
  1. Bartholomew Fair
  2. The Departure of Captain Cook on his last voyage
MS
1913orchestralSymphony in E minor, for large orchestra[2]MS
1913solo songTwo songs for voice and piano
  1. My Dear Mistress (after John Wilmot)
  2. Oft in the Stilly Night (after Thomas Moore)
pub.
1914pianoBattle Songs of the Allies, arr. for piano[3]
  1. Belgium. La brabanconne - Gallant men of Liege
  2. France. La Marsellaise - Partant pour la Syrie
  3. Russia. Russian national hymn
  4. England. The red, white and blue
  5. Scotland. The hundred pipers
  6. Ireland. Wearin' o' the green
  7. Wales. Land of my fathers
  8. Great Britain. Rule Britannia - God save the King
pub.
1914solo songSongs in a Farmhouse, for soloists, chorus and orchestra; also with piano accomp.
  1. Summer is a-coming in...Chorus
  2. The Poacher...Bass solo and chorus
  3. It was a Lover and his Lass (Shakespeare)...Chorus
  4. The Banks of Allan Water...Soprano solo
  5. Drink to Me Only (Ben Jonson)...Tenor and semi-chorus
  6. Early One Morning...Contralto solo
  7. The Ash Grove...Unaccompanied chorus
  8. John Peel...Bass solo and chorus
pub.
1916solo songThe Shepherdess ("She walks, my lady of delight"), for voice and piano (after Alice Meynell)pub.
1917orchestralPalsgaard, Danish sketches for large orchestra
  1. A Feast-Day Procession
  2. The Pool with the Swans
  3. Sailing up the Fjord
  4. The Book of Sagas
pub.
1918solo songAn Epitaph, for voice, string quartet & piano (after Elizabeth Cary)pub.
1920operaThe Beggar's Opera, libretto by John Gay, music by Pepusch, arr. Austinpub.
1920orchestralIncidental music to The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont, for small orchestraMS
1920solo songLove's Pilgrimage: Three Songs for voice and piano
  1. Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths (Yeats)
  2. Terre Promise (Ernest Dowson)
  3. Parted Presence (D.G. Rossetti)
pub.
1921pianoThe Enchanted Palace, for piano
  1. The Princess Sings
  2. The Princess Dances
pub.
1921solo songTo My Fair Lady, for voice and pianopub.
1921orchestralIncidental music for The Red Lamp by W. Outram Tristram for small orchestraMS
1921chamberIncidental music to Will Shakespeare by Clemence Dane, for flute, two violins, and cello[4]MS
1922operaPolly, the sequel to The Beggar's Opera, libretto by Clifford Bax after John Gay, music by Pepusch, arr. Austinpub.
1923orchestralIncidental music to The Insect Play by Karel Čapek, for small orchestra[5]MS
1923pianoSuite from The Insect Play, for piano
  1. Waltz on themes from the play
  2. One-step
  3. Three-step
pub.
1923choralTwo May Songs, for unison chorus
  1. Come Listen Awhile
  2. All In The Pleasant Evening
pub.
1923solo songEmmeline ("Missing"), for voice and piano (after A.A. Milne)[6]pub.
1924orchestralIncidental music to The Way of the World by Congreve, for small orchestra[7]pub.
1924operaThe Bandit, comic opera, libretto by Eden Philpotts (unperformed)
1924voice and orchestraThe 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.[8][9]
1924solo songTwo Songs, for unaccompanied voice (after Walter de la Mare)
  1. The Song of Soldiers
  2. Wanderers
pub.
1924solo songChristmas Eve, for voice and piano (after John Drinkwater)pub.
1925operaRobert Burns, a ballad opera, libretto by John Drinkwater[10] MS
1926solo songTwo Songs for voice and piano
  1. Birdlip (Fred. E. Weatherly)
  2. A Brave town is Liverpool (H.E. Hunt)
pub.
1926choralTwo songs for 4-part chorus
  1. Where Shall the Lover Rest?
  2. Who can live in heart so glad? (Nicholas Breton)
pub.
1926chamber[Birth melody], for violin and pianopub. by Tobias Broeker[11]
1927chamberSonata for cello and pianoMS
1927solo songThree Wessex Songs, for voice and piano (after Thomas Hardy)
  1. When I Set Out for Lyonesse
  2. Though Dynasties Pass (In time of 'The breaking of nations')
  3. The Fiddler
pub.
1929solo songThree Songs of Unrest, for voice and piano
  1. Margaret
  2. In City Streets (Ada Elizabeth Smith)
  3. The Sleeper's Song (W.H. Davies)
pub.
1929choralIt Was and Still My Care Is, (Hymn to the Lares) for 4-part unaccompanied male chorus (after Herrick)pub.
1930ensembleIncidental music for The Devil & the Lady, by Tennyson, for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, timpani and piano[12]MS
1930solo songAll About Me: song cycle for voice and piano (after John Drinkwater)
  1. Invitations
  2. Mr. Moon
  3. The Difference
  4. Puzzles
  5. John Pride
  6. Riding in Rotten Row
pub.
1930chorusSong for City of Oxford School,[13] for chorus and piano (after John Drinkwater)pub.
1930solo songFond Lover, Cease your Woeful Sighs, for voice and piano (after Clifford Bax)[14]pub.
1931chorus and orchestraPervigilium 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.[15]
1931solo songThe Fair Circassian, for voice and harp (after Richard Garnett)pub.
1931pianoMaids' Delight, Dance Suite for piano
  1. Rigadoon
  2. Running Dance
  3. Jig
pub.
1932orchestralIncidental music to Prudence, by Frederick Witney for small orchestra[16]MS
1932chorusContent, for two-part female chorus (after Thomas Dekker)pub.
1935chamberThe Fairy Ring, for cello and piano (cello part arranged by Herbert Withers)
  1. Titiana
  2. Captain Cockchafer
pub.
1935orchestralOverture The Sea Venturers, for large orchestraMS
1936orchestralRobert Burns concert suite for orchestra, adapted from Austin's 1925 operaMS
1936solo songThe Sailor's Song, for voice and piano (trad.)pub.
1940choralFour Part-songs for Unaccomanied chorus
  1. Stay, O Sweet (John Donne)
  2. Let Us Now Take Time (Robert Herrick)
  3. Gather Ye Rosebuds(?) (Robert Herrick)
  4. Swedish Drinking song
pub.
1941solo songTwo Short Songs for bass voice and piano (after Herrick)
  1. Born I Was to be Old (Anacreontike)
  2. Go I Must (To his Tomb-Maker)
pub.
1943Film musicFilm score for Undercover
1943solo songSerbian Wife's Song, for voice and piano (words by Frederic Austin)pub.
1944piano and orchestraConcertino for piano & orchestra, arr. piano and strings by ?? in 2008MS
1949solo songOrpheus, for voice and piano (after Shakespeare)pub.
1900 ?choralTe Deum, for choir and organpub.
1914 ??voice and orchestraThe Agincourt Song, for baritone, chorus and orchestraMS
1922 ?pianoThe Moth: dramatic scene for dancing, for piano (MS has some orchestration indications)MS
1925 ?piano or orchestraTheme & Variations, for two pianos (unfinished). Also partially orchestrated by Austin for large orchestra, performing version (approx. 25 minutes) completed by Jeremy Lee-BrowneMS
1935 ?organOrgan Sonata (dedicated to Percy Whitlock)MS
1940 ?choralTyger, Tyger, for unaccompanied 8-part chorus (after Blake)MS
-pianoThe Sleeping Beauty, for pianoMS
-pianoThe Garden of Delight: Sketches for a (Chinese) ballet, for pianoMS
-solo songThree Scotch Songs, for voice and piano
  1. Cam' ye by Athol
  2. Johnny Cope
  3. Culloden
pub.
-solo songThe Departing Lover ("Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go") for voice and piano (after John Donne)pub.
-solo songGather Ye Rosebuds, for voice and piano (after Robert Herrick)MS
-solo songLorna's Song, for voice and piano (after R. D. Blackmore)
-solo songMy True Love Hath My Heart, for voice and piano (after Shakespeare)MS
-solo songThree Fool's Songs, for voice and piano (after Max Beerbohm's play 'Savonarola')
  1. "When peas hang green in the garden wall"
  2. "Fly home, sweet self"
  3. "Wear not the ring, it hath an unkind sting"
MS
-solo songTwo 17th Century Lyrics, for high voice and piano
  1. Dirge (after Francis Beaumont)
  2. Morning Song (after Thomas Bateson)
MS
-orchestralCarnaval (Schumann): arrangement for reduced orchestra
-orchestralGiselle (Adolphe Adam): arrangement for reduced orchestra
-orchestralLes Sylphides, ballet by Glazunov after Chopin: arrangement for reduced orchestra
-orchestralThe Rhine Maidens: orchestration of W. G. McNaught's SSA arrangement of the opening scene of Wagner's Rhinegold

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[17]
  • 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
  1. Completed 30 Aug 1900; 1st performance 12 Dec 1901, by Bournemouth Municipal Orch. under Dan Godfrey. Source: original Concert Programme
  2. The autograph MS is in the Grainger Museum, Melbourne University
  3. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia
  4. 1st performance Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 17 Nov. 1921 (Dame Flora Robson's first stage appearance)
  5. Starred Claude Rains, with John Gielgud in his first stage appearance, at the Regent Theatre, London
  6. 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
  7. The cast included Dame Edith Evans as Millamant.
  8. "An Evening of Plays". The Radio Times. Vol. 2 no. 16. 11 January 1924. p. 91.
  9. "Plays by Wireless". The Radio Times. Vol. 2 no. 16. 11 January 1924. p. 89.
  10. An advance notice appeared in the New York Times, 16 July 1922
  11. https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/a-f/austin-frederic/
  12. Tennyson's juvenile play was 1st. pub. in 1930. Staged at the Arts Theatre, London. The part of Pharmaceutis was played by Alan Napier.
  13. City of Oxford School merged with another school in approx. 1988 to form Oxford School, Glanville Rd, Cowley, Oxford.
  14. From Bax's play, The Immortal Lady (1930 or 1931)
  15. Stephen Lloyd, William Walton: Muse of Fire
  16. Gwen Berryman, who later played Doris Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers for many years, appeared in this production. Gänzl, p. 368.
  17. 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
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