This is a list of musical works written by

Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in th ...

Ballets

* ''Prize-fight'' (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished. (also version for piano, four hands) * ''Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat'' (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished * ''Adam and Eve'' (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (2 tableaux), 1924–5, FP Monte Carlo, 4 May 1926 ased on ''Adam and Eve''* ''Pomona'' (1 act), 1926, FP as a Divertimento 16 November 1926; FP as a ballet Buenos Aires, 9 Sept 1927 ncl. material from ''Adam and Eve''* '' Horoscope'' (1 act), 1937, FP London, 27 January 1938 * ''

Tiresias In Greek mythology, Tiresias (; grc, Τειρεσίας, Teiresías) was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nym ...

'' (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished

Incidental music

* '' Jew Süss'' (

Ashley Dukes Ashley Dukes (29 May 1885 – 4 May 1959) was an English playwright/dramatist, critic, theatre manager. Biography Personal life Ashley Dukes was born one of five children in 1885. He was the son of the Congregationalist clergyman, Rev. Edwin J ...

, after

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's J ...

), ?1929, score possibly lost; FP London, 19 Sept 1929; after Domenico Scarlatti (see also Arrangements: ''Mars and Venus'') * '' Salome'' ( Oscar Wilde), clarinet, trumpet, percussion and cello, 1931, FP London, 27 May 1931 * ''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

'' (

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

), flute, two trumpets and percussion, 1944, FP London, 11 Feb 1944, unpublished

Orchestral

* ''Green Fire'', rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923 * ''The Bird Actors'', overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished riginally for pf 4 hands* ''Champêtre'', chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form sed as Intrada of Pomona; arr. as Pastorale, pf* ''Elegiac Blues'', 1927 rr. pf* ''Music for Orchestra'', 1927; FP 14 June 1929; dedicated to

Lord Berners Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners. Biography Early life and education ...

* ''Aubade héroïque'', 1942; FP 21 February 1943; dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday * ''Caprice péruvien'', orchestra (on themes by Lord Berners from ''Le carrosse du St Sacrement'')

Concertante

* Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished * Concerto for piano and 9 players, 1930–31; FP 18 December 1931;

Arthur Benjamin Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893, in Sydney – 10 April 1960, in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of '' Jamaican Rumba'' (1938) and of the '' Storm Clouds Cantata'' ...

, piano, conducted by the composer; dedicated to

Peter Warlock Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 189417 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published ...

* see also Arrangements: Concerto for piano and small orchestra (an arrangement of organ concertos by George Frideric Handel) * see also: Vocal and choral: '' The Rio Grande''

Film scores

* ''Merchant Seamen'', patriotic documentary 1940;IMDB: ''Merchant Seamen''
/ref> orchestral suite arr. 1943, pubd, FP 15 May 1943 * ''

Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever writt ...

'' (dir. Julien Duvivier), 1947, unpublished

Piano

* ''Alla Marcia'', ?1925 ncl. in ''Romeo and Juliet''* Overture, pf duet, 1925, unpublished ee Orchestra: ''The Bird Actors''* ''Suite in 3 Movements'', 1925, unpublished; FP 19 March 1925 * ''Tema'', ? 1925, unpublished. * ''Pastorale'', 1926, unpublished. * ''Elegiac Blues'', 1927 * Sonata, 1928–9; FP 30 October 1929 * ''Elegy'', 1938 * ''Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches'', 4 hands, 1949; FP 17 May 1949; dedicated to Edward Clark

Vocal and choral

* 2 Songs (

Sacheverell Sitwell Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, (; 15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on a ...

), soprano, flute and harp, 1923; FP 6 March 1924 * ''8 Poems of

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'', voice, piano or 8 insts, 1926–9; FP 30 October 1929; dedicated to

Anna May Wong Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain intern ...

* '' The Rio Grande'' (Sacheverell Sitwell), alto, chorus, piano, brass, strings, percussion, 1927; first broadcast by the BBC 27 February 1928; first concert performance 12 December 1929,

Hamilton Harty Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a w ...

, piano * ''

Summer's Last Will and Testament ''Summer's Last Will and Testament'' is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: "No earlier English comedy has anything like the ...

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Thomas Nashe Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. He is known for his novel ''The Unfortunate Traveller'', his pamphlets including ''Pierce Penniless,'' ...

: Pleasant Comedy), baritone, chorus and orchestra, 1932–5; FP 29 January 1936 * Dirge from ''

Cymbeline ''Cymbeline'' , also known as ''The Tragedie of Cymbeline'' or ''Cymbeline, King of Britain'', is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celti ...

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), tenor and baritone soli, male chorus, strings, 1940; FP 23 March 1947, BBC broadcast; dedicated to

Patrick Hadley Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (5 March 1899 – 17 December 1973) was a British composer. Biography Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. His father, William Sheldon Hadley, was at that time a fellow of Pembroke Co ...

Arrangements

* ''Mars and Venus'' (incidental music for ''Jew Süss'') (after Domenico Scarlatti) * ''Hommage aux belles viennoises'', 1929 (after

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...

) * ''Les rendezvous'', 1933 (after

Daniel Auber Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when ...

: '' L'enfant prodigue'') *'' Bar aux Folies-Bergère'', 1934 ballet (arrangement of piano music by Chabrier) * ''Apparitions'', 1936, unpublished. (after Franz Liszt) * '' Les patineurs'', 1937, ballet using music of Giacomo Meyerbeer (''

Le prophète ''Le prophète'' (''The Prophet'') is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, after passages from the ''Essay on the ...

'', ''

L'étoile du nord ' (''The North Star'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe. The work had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 16 February 1854. Much of the material, ...

'') * ''Harlequin in the Street'', 1938, unpublished (after François Couperin) * ''Dante Sonata'', piano and orchestra, 1940, unpublished (after Liszt) * ''The Prospect Before Us'', London, 1940, unpublished (after William Boyce) * ''Comus'', 1942 (after Henry Purcell) * ''Hamlet'', London, 1942 (after

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most pop ...

) * ''Ballabile'', 1950 (after Emmanuel Chabrier) * ''Caprice péruvien'', orchestra (after

: ''Le carrosse du St Sacrement'') * Concerto for piano and small orchestra (after George Frideric Handel: organ concertos Nos. 2 and 6) * ''Facade'', Suites 1 and 2 arranged for piano duet (

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

) * ''Job: A Masque for Dancing'' ( Ralph Vaughan Williams), version for theatre orchestra; FP 1931, ISCM Festival, Oxford * Keyboard pieces by

Thomas Roseingrave Thomas Roseingrave (1690 or 1691 – 23 June 1766), like his father Daniel Roseingrave, was an English-born Irish composer and organist. Early years He was born at Winchester, where his father Daniel Roseingrave was the Cathedral organist, b ...

Editions

* William Boyce: 8 symphonies, string orchestra, wind ad lib * Boyce: ''The Power of Music'', ''The Cambridge Ode'', ''Pan and Syrinx'', string orchestra, wind ad lib * Henry Purcell:

The Fairy-Queen ''The Fairy-Queen'' (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. First performed ...

, collab. Edward J. Dent, unpublished

References

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