This is an incomplete list of music based on the works of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

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Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. In classical genres, these include opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

s, incidental music

Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack"....

, symphonic poem

Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein...

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Cantata

A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....

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Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

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Song cycle

A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...

s. Of more recent times, some have been the subject of musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

s. Some are direct settings of Wilde's words or libretti based on them, and some are wordless settings inspired by his writings.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard...

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Gavin Friday Gavin Friday Gavin Friday is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter.-Career:Gavin was born in Dublin and grew up in Finglas, a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside... , Maurice Seezer Maurice Seezer Maurice Seezer is an Irish musician, whose real name is Maurice Jebidiah Roycroft. He has frequently written and composed songs with Gavin Friday, who he first met through a mutual friend...	Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves	song	1989
Jacques Ibert Jacques Ibert Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...	La Ballade de la geôle de Reading	ballet Ballet Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...	1920	published in a version by Ibert for piano duet in 1924
Donald Swann Donald Swann Donald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders .-Life:...	The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle	song cycle	1991	Swann set certain parts of the Ballad, along with The Harlot's House and other texts by Tennyson, Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems... , and John Clare John Clare John Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...
Arthur Wills Arthur Wills Dr Arthur Wills OBE is a musician, composer, and professor. He was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992...	The Sacrifice of God	choral	1986	4-part choir and organ; words from Psalm 51 and The Ballad of Reading Gaol; composed on the death of the composer's young niece
Henri Zagwijn		declamation Declamation Grand National Tournament in Declamation is a public speaking event of the National Catholic Forensic League. One can qualify for the annual NCFL Grand National Tournament in Declamation through their local qualifying tournament...  with music		in Dutch

Pete Doherty

Pete Doherty

Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...

 quotes the stanza beginning with "I never saw a man who looked/with such a wistful eye" in Broken Love Song on his solo album Grace/Wastelands

Grace/Wastelands

Grace/Wastelands is the debut solo album from Babyshambles frontman/The Libertines co-frontman Peter Doherty. It was released in the UK on 16 March 2009, with the single "Last of the English Roses" preceding it by one week...

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Les Ballons

Les Ballons (The Balloons) is a short poem, the second of the two Fantaisies Décoratives, the first being Le Panneau (The Panel).

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	Les Ballons	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	c. 1912	Griffes composed a song to this text in c. 1912, revising it in 1915. It was published in 1986.

The Birthday of the Infanta

A House of Pomegranates

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales...

Short story

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
John Alden Carpenter John Alden Carpenter John Alden Carpenter was an American composer.-Biography:Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club...	The Birthday of the Infanta	ballet Ballet Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...	1919
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...	The Birthday of the Infanta, Op. 115	ballet	1942	premiered New Orleans, 1947; an orchestral suite Suite In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...  was produced in 1944
Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.-Life:Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents - both singers - Fortner very early on had intense contact with music...	Die weisse Rose (The White Rose)	ballet	1949-50
Elisabeth Lutyens Elisabeth Lutyens Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE was a significant English composer.- Early life and education :She was one of the five children of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and his wife Emily, who was profoundly involved in the Theosophical Movement...	The Birthday of the Infanta	ballet	1932
Miklós Radnai Miklós Radnai Miklós Radnai was an Hungarian composer, critic and music writer. From 1925 to his death in 1935, he was a noted Intendant of the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest.-Biography:...	Az infánsznö születésnapja (The Birthday of the Infanta)	ballet	1918	premiered Budapest Opera House, 26 April 1918
Franz Schreker Franz Schreker Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...	Der Geburtstag der Infantin	ballet-pantomime	1908	rev. as Spanisches Fest, 1923
Franz Schreker	Spanisches Fest (Spanish Festival)	ballet-pantomime	1923	revised version of Der Geburtstag der Infantin, 1908
Bernhard Sekles Bernhard Sekles Bernhard Sekles was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue.Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna, . The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater...	Der Zwerg und die Infantin (The Dwarf and the Infanta), Op. 22	ballet	1913
Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...	Der Zwerg Der Zwerg Der Zwerg , Op.17 is an opera in one act by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky to a libretto by Georg Klaren, freely adapted from the short story The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde.-Composition history:... (The Dwarf), Op. 17	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1919-21	libretto by George C. Klaren based on Wilde (although he took many liberties); premiered Neues Theater, Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... , 28 May 1922, conducted by Otto Klemperer Otto Klemperer Otto Klemperer was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century.-Biography:Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia Province, then in Germany... ; in 1981 a new production by director Adolf Dresen was staged in Hamburg - this did away with Klaren's textual changes and was presented as Der Geburtstag der Infantin
Otakar Zítek	O růzi (On the Rose)	ballet	1941-42	Zítek 1894-1955

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

"The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. It was later included in a collection of short stories entitled...

Short story (1887)

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
George Bassman George Bassman George Bassman was an American composer and arranger.-Biography:Born in New York to a Russian Jewish émigré couple, Bassman was later raised in Boston and began studying music at the Boston Conservatory while still a boy....	The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost (1944 film) The Canterville Ghost is a 1944 fantasy/comedy film directed by Jules Dassin, loosely based on the short story of the same title by Oscar Wilde...	film score Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...	1944
Alexander Knaifel	The Canterville Ghost	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1966
Jaroslav Křička Jaroslav Kricka Jaroslav Křička was a Czech composer.He was born in Kelč and died in Prague.In 1936 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Mountain Suite".-External links:*...	Bily pan (The Gentleman in White), Op. 30	opera	1927-29	2 acts, with libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budin; a 3-act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931
Jaroslav Křička	Spuk im Schloss, oder Böse Zeiten fur Gespenster	opera	1931	3 acts; a revised version of his 2-act 1929 opera Bily pan
Sergei Vasilenko	The Garden of Death ("after Oscar Wilde"), Op. 13	symphonic poem Symphonic poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein...	1907-08	Vasilenko's title is sometimes said to have come from one of Wilde's poems, but he wrote no such poem. It comes from a passage in Chapter V of The Canterville Ghost where the character Virginia is speaking with the eponymous ghost and asks it where it sleeps. It talks about a certain garden. She whispers: You mean the Garden of Death, and it answers, Yes, Death. Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde... , whom he did not meet until 1891, later used The Garden of Death as the title of one his own sonnets, published in 1899 in the collection "The City of the Soul".

De Profundis

Letter

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Frederic Rzewski Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...	De Profundis	speaking pianist	1992	The pianist speaks and sings excerpts from Wilde's letter
Larry Sitsky Larry Sitsky Lazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...	De Profundis. Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculus	monodrama	c. 1982	Wilde's words arranged into a libretto by Gwen Harwood Gwen Harwood Gwen Harwood AO , née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, was an Australian poet and librettist. Gwen Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes... ; for baritone, two string quartets and one percussion player

Endymion

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Joseph Horovitz Joseph Horovitz Joseph Horovitz is a British composer and conductor. Horovitz's family emigrated to England in 1938. He studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, and later attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Gordon Jacob. He then undertook a year of further...	Endymion	solo voice and chorus	1985	soprano and chamber choir

E Tenebris

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...	E tenebris, Op. 15, No. 3	song	1914	No. 3 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Madonna mia (No. 1) and Requiescat (No. 2).

A Florentine Tragedy

A Florentine Tragedy

A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel,...

Blank verse play. Premiered not in England, but at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, 12 January 1906, in a German translation by Max Meyerfeld. The London premiere was on 10 June 1906.

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...	Maddalena Maddalena (opera) Maddalena is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov under the pen-name Baron Lieven.-Origins:... , Op. 13	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1911-13	1 act; his own libretto, after a blank verse play by Baroness Liven (Magda Gustavovna Liven-Orlova), which was based on Wilde's play; composed 1911, partly orchestrated 1912, revised 1913; never performed in Prokofiev's lifetime, despite some attempts; his widow Lina asked Edward Downes Edward Downes Sir Edward Thomas "Ted" Downes, CBE was an English conductor, specialising in opera.He was associated with the Royal Opera House from 1952, and with Opera Australia from 1970. He was also well known for his long working relationship with the BBC Philharmonic and for working with the Netherlands...  to complete it in 1976; concert reading, Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... , 22 December 1978, under Downes, for a BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...  radio broadcast on 25 March 1979; premiere stage performance Graz Graz The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...  Opernhouse, 28 November 1981
Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...	Eine florentinische Tragödie Eine florentinische Tragödie Eine florentinische Tragödie , Op. 16 is an opera in one act by Alexander Zemlinsky to a libretto adapted by the composer from a German translation by Max Meyerfeld of a play by Oscar Wilde.-Performance history:... , Op. 16	opera	1915-16	trans. Max Meyerfeld; premiered Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....  30 January 1917, conducted by Max von Schillings Max von Schillings Max von Schillings was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925.... ; it was the fifth and most successful of Zemlinsky's seven completed operas and is among the key works of his oeuvre

La Fuite de la Lune

La Fuite de la Lune (The Flight of the Moon) is the second of the two poems in Impressions, the first being Les Silhouettes.

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	La Fuite de la Lune	song	1912	Griffes wrote a setting of this poem as No. 1 of his Tone-Images, Op. 3 (No. 2 was also a Wilde setting, Symphony in Yellow; and No. 3 was a poem by W. E. Henley William Ernest Henley William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus".-Life and career:... ).

The Happy Prince

Short story

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Renzo Bossi	Il Principe felice, Op. 52	radio opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1950	1 act; broadcast 11 October 1951, RAI; libretto by Bossi after Wilde
Henry Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.-Life:Hadley was born into a musical family in Somerville, Massachusetts...	The Golden Prince, Op. 69	cantata Cantata A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....	1914	Soprano, baritone, SSAA chorus, orchestra; libretto by D. Stevens after Wilde; presented New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...  1914
Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...	The Happy Prince	music for a narration	1945	for a recording of the story spoken by Bing Crosby Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....  and Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio... , with an orchestra conducted by Victor Young Victor Young Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...
Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...	The Happy Prince	opera	c. 1965	1 act; libretto adapted by the composer

The Harlot's House

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Ronald Stevenson Ronald Stevenson Ronald Stevenson is a British composer, pianist, and writer about music.-Biography:The son of a Scottish father and English mother, Stevenson studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music , studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction...	The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde	chamber	1988	Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion
Donald Swann Donald Swann Donald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders .-Life:...	The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle	song cycle	1991	Swann set The Harlot's House, along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems... , and John Clare John Clare John Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...

Play

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Arthur Benjamin Arthur Benjamin Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...	An Ideal Husband An Ideal Husband (1947 film) An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was made by London Film Productions and distributed by British Lion Films and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation . It was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a...	film score Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...	1947

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

Play

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Erik Chisholm Erik Chisholm Professor Erik William Chisholm was a Scottish composer and conductor often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"...	The Importance of Being Earnest	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1963
Vivian Ellis Vivian Ellis Vivian Ellis was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the theme "Coronation Scot".-Life and work:...	Half in Ernest	musical Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...	1958
Benjamin Frankel Benjamin Frankel Benjamin Frankel was a British composer. Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted...	The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) The Importance of Being Earnest is a British film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who also adapted the screenplay, and was produced by Teddy Baird.-Adaptation:...	film score Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...	1952
Lee Pockriss Lee Pockriss Lee Julian Pockriss was an American songwriter who wrote many well-known popular songs and several scores for films and Broadway shows.-Early life and career:... , Anne Croswell	Ernest in Love Ernest in Love Ernest in Love is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anne Croswell and music by Lee Pockriss. It is based on The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners.-Background:...	musical Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...	1960

Impression du matin

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	Impression du matin	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1915	Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Le Jardin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.

Impression: Le Réveillon

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	Le Réveillon	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1914	Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Le Jardin, and Impression du matin). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.

Le Jardin

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	Le Jardin	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1915	Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Impression du matin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893...

Play

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Noël Coward Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...	After the Ball After the Ball (musical) After the Ball is a musical by Noel Coward, based on Lady Windermere's Fan.After a provincial tour, the musical premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, on 10 June 1954 and ran for 188 performances until 20 November 1954...	play with music	1954	play adapted by Coward, who also wrote the music

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes:*Lord Arthur Savile's Crime*The Canterville Ghost*The Sphinx Without a Secret...

Short story

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Geoffrey Bush Geoffrey Bush Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of 20th century English music.Geoffrey Bush was born in London, became a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral at the age of 8 and studied informally with the composer John Ireland...	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime	opera	1972	premiered London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , Guildhall School of Music Guildhall School of Music and Drama Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in Music, Opera, Drama and Technical Theatre Arts.-History:... , 5 December 1972
Edwin Carr Edwin Carr (composer) Edwin Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.-Biography:Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944-5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished...	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime	opera	1991	1 act, 8 scenes
Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...	Flesh and Fantasy Flesh and Fantasy Flesh and Fantasy is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan.Flesh and Fantasy tells three...	film score Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...	1943	only the 2nd part of the 3-part film is based on Wilde's story

Madonna mia

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...	Madonna mia, Op. 15, No. 1	song	1914	No. 1 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Requiescat (No. 2) and E tenebris (No. 3)

La Mer

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	La Mer	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1916	Griffes first sketched La Mer on 29 October 1912. After its publication was rejected by Schirmers, he wrote an entirely new setting in August 1916. It was included in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were Le Jardin, Impression du matin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.

The Nightingale and the Rose

Story

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Renzo Bossi	Rosa rossa (Red Rose), Op. 18	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1910	also seen as L'Usinguolo e la rosa (The Nightingale and the Rose); one act; Bossi described it as a "poemetto lirico"; staged Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...  1938
Hooper Brewster-Jones Hooper Brewster-Jones Hooper Josse Brewster Jones was a musician and composer born in Orroroo, South Australia.His works include an opera The Nightingale and the Rose from The Happy Prince and Other Tales....	The Nightingale and the Rose	opera	1927	only an orchestral suite survives
Elena Firsova Elena Firsova Elena Olegovna Firsova is a Russian composer.-Life:She was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Oleg Firsov and Viktoria Lichko. She studied music in Moscow with Alexander Pirumov, Yuri Kholopov, Edison Denisov and Philip Herschkowitz...	The Nightingale and the Rose, Op. 46	chamber opera	1990-91	to her own English libretto based partly on Wilde's story, and partly on poetry by Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
Harold Fraser-Simson Harold Fraser-Simson Harold Fraser-Simson , was an English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies. His most famous musical was the World War I hit, The Maid of the Mountains, and he later set numerous children's poems to music, especially those of A. A...	The Nightingale and the Rose	ballet Ballet Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...	1927
Margaret Garwood	The Nightingale and the Rose	opera	1973
Henry Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.-Life:Hadley was born into a musical family in Somerville, Massachusetts...	The Nightingale and the Rose, Op. 54	cantata Cantata A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....	1911	soprano solo, SSAA chorus, orchestra; libretto by E. W. Grant; performed New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...  1911
Roger Hannay	The Nightingale and the Rose	stage and mixed media	1986
Janis Kalnins	The Nightingale and the Rose	ballet	1938
Jan Müller-Wieland Jan Müller-Wieland Jan Müller-Wieland is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.-Professional career:...	The Nightingale and the Rose	chamber opera	1996	1 act; 7 singers, percussion (3 gongs, 3 tamtams, marimba, vibraphone), cello or piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; staged Darmstadt Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...  1996
Jonathan Rutherford	The Nightingale and the Rose	opera	1966
Friedrich Voss	The Nightingale and the Rose	ballet	1961	staged Oberhausen Oberhausen Oberhausen is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen . The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It is also well known for the...  1962

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...

Novel

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Boris Arapov	The Picture of Dorian Gray	ballet	1971
Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...	The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera) The Picture of Dorian Gray is an opera in two acts by the American composer Lowell Liebermann, from a libretto by the composer, based on the novel of the same name by Oscar Wilde.-Performance history:...	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1996	12 scenes; libretto by Liebermann based on the novel; commissioned by Opera Monte Carlo; premiered Salle Garnier, Monaco Monaco Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...  8 May 1996; dedicated to Princess Caroline of Monaco Caroline, Princess of Hanover Caroline, Princess of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Monaco , formally styled Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover , has been heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco since 2005, a position which she previously held from 1957 to 1958.She is the wife of... ; U.S. premiere, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5 February 1999
W. Arundel Orchard W. Arundel Orchard William Arundel Orchard OBE FRCM was a British-born Australian organist, pianist, composer, conductor and music educator....	The Picture of Dorian Gray	opera		3 acts; performed at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music Sydney Conservatorium of Music The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...  11 September 1919; unpublished
Hans Schaeuble	Dorian Gray, Op. 32	opera	1947-48
Herbert Stothart Herbert Stothart Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.-Biography:...	The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray...	film score Film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...	1945

The Libertines

The Libertines

The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...

' song "Narcissist" was inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray. It features the line in the chorus, 'Wouldn't it be nice to be Dorian Gray, just for a day'.
Kill Hannah

Kill Hannah

Kill Hannah is a rock band formed in 1993 in Chicago. The band has released six studio albums, seven EPs, and two compilation albums as well as three DVDs.-History:...

's song "Scream" references "The Picture of Dorian Gray" with the line 'Enacting Sybil Vane in some tragic play'.

Requiescat

Poem (1874), included in his collection Rosa Mystica. Requiescat was written at Avignon

Avignon

Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...

 seven years after his sister, Isola, died (23 February 1867), less than two months before her 10th birthday. Wilde was 12 at the time of her death.

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
George Butterworth George Butterworth George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E...	Requiescat	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1911
Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....	Requiescat	choral	1957-58	Chorus and orchestra; the text includes Wilde's poem as well as words taken from the Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Matthew The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...  and James Joyce James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
Otto Luening Otto Luening Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....	Requiscat	song	1917
George Frederick McKay George Frederick McKay George Frederick McKay was a prolific modern American composer.-Biography:McKay was born in the Far West of America in the small frontier wheat farming town of Harrington, Washington. His family later moved to the much larger town of Spokane, where he attended school up to his college years...	Requiescat	song	1932
Ned Rorem Ned Rorem Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...	Requiescat	vocal	1997	Set for SATB and piano; Evidence of Things Not Seen is a cycle of 36 songs to texts by 24 authors, and includes solos, duos, trios and quartets; Requiescat is No. 8 of the "Middles" section of the cycle; the other songs include texts by W. H. Auden W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also... , Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century... , Robert Robert Browning Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...  and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members... , Colette Colette Colette was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette . She is best known for her novel Gigi, upon which Lerner and Loewe based the stage and film musical comedies of the same title.-Early life and marriage:Colette was born to retired military officer Jules-Joseph... , Stephen Crane Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism... , Paul Goodman Paul Goodman Paul Goodman may refer to:*Paul Goodman , British politician*Paul Goodman , American ice hockey player*Paul Goodman , Grammy Award-winning sound engineer... , A. E. Housman A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900... , Langston Hughes Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance... , Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work... , Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:... , John Waldman, Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse... , William Wordsworth William Wordsworth William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....  and others; premiered Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.... , January 1998
Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...	Requiescat, Op. 15, No. 2	song	1914	Set to German words (Still, dass sie es nicht hört ..); No. 2 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Madonna mia (No. 1) and E tenebris (No. 3)
David Van Vactor David Van Vactor David Van Vactor was an American composer of contemporary classical music.He was born in Plymouth, Indiana, and received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University...	Requiescat	song	1932
Raymond Wilding-White Raymond Wilding-White Raymond Wilding-White was a composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and photographer/digital artist.- Biography :...	Requiescat

La Sainte Courtisane

Play (fragment; 1893)

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny Rudolf Wagner-Régeny Rudolf Wagner-Régeny was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, since 1920 Romania, he became a German citizen in 1930, and then East Germany after 1945.From 1919–1920 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and then at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from...	La sainte courtisane	musical scene	1930	4 speakers and chamber orchestra; premiered Dessau Dessau Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it is part of the merged town Dessau-Roßlau. Population of Dessau proper: 77,973 .-Geography:... , 24 October 1930

Salome

Salome (play)

Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published...

Play

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Flor Alpaerts Flor Alpaerts Flor Alpaerts was a Belgian conductor, pedagogue and composer. He graduated from the Vlaamse Muziekschool in 1901....	Salome	incidental music Incidental music Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack"....
Granville Bantock Granville Bantock Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...	Dance of the Seven Veils	incidental music	1918	staged London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , 1918
Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...	Salome	incidental music	1955	chamber orchestra with 8 players and vocal soloists; withdrawn
Peter Maxwell Davies Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...	Salome	ballet	1978	premiered Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... , 10 November 1978; Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conducted by János Fürst János Fürst János Fürst was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.János Fürst originally studied the violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his native Budapest. After the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, he continued studies at the conservatory in Brussels. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris... ; scenario and choreography by Flemming Flindt Flemming Flindt Flemming Flindt was a Danish choreographer born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools, joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955...
Pete Doherty Pete Doherty Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...	Salome	popular music	2009	appears on his album Grace/Wastelands Grace/Wastelands Grace/Wastelands is the debut solo album from Babyshambles frontman/The Libertines co-frontman Peter Doherty. It was released in the UK on 16 March 2009, with the single "Last of the English Roses" preceding it by one week...
Alexander Glazunov Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...	Introduction and Dance, Op. 90	incidental music
Henry Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.-Life:Hadley was born into a musical family in Somerville, Massachusetts...	Salome, Op. 55	symphonic poem Symphonic poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein...	1905	this was written after Hadley had seen a production of Oscar Wilde's play, and was a favourite among his own compositions
Alexander Krein Alexander Krein Alexander Krein was a Russian composer of Jewish heritage.-Background:The Krein family was steeped in the klezmer tradition; his father Abram was a noted violinist...	Salome, Op. 19	symphonic poem	1929
Constant Lambert Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer and conductor.-Early life:Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music...	Salome	incidental music	1929	clarinet, cello, trumpet, percussion; written for a performance staged in Cambridge Cambridge The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...  by Terence Gray, with choreography by Ninette de Valois Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet... ; staged again November 1931; a suite was arranged by Giles Easterbrook in 1998 and recorded in 2000
Antoine Mariotte Antoine Mariotte Antoine Mariotte, born in Avignon on 22 December 1875 and died in Izieux, on 30 November 1944 was a French composer, conductor and music administrator.- Biography:...	Salomé Salomé (Mariotte) Salomé is an opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the French play Salome by Oscar Wilde.Mariotte commenced composition of his opera before the far more famous treatment of the same source by German composer Richard Strauss , but his premiered after the Strauss...	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1905	premiered 1908; he was involved in a debate with Richard Strauss Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...  to prove that his music was written earlier than Strauss's version, also written in 1905
Emil Petrovics	Salome	ballet	1978	flute, trumpet, harp and percussion
Richard Strauss Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...	Salome Salome (opera) Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer.... , Op. 54	opera	1905	trans. Hedwig Lachmann Hedwig Lachmann Hedwig Lachmann was a German author, translator and poet.-Life:Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania in 1865 and was the daughter of a Jewish cantor. She spent her childhood in Stolp and a subsequent seven years in Hürben . At the age of 15, she passed exams in Augsburg to become a language teacher... ; premiered Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....  1905. This opera is by far the best known musical adaptation of a work of Oscar Wilde.
Alexander Tcherepnin Alexander Tcherepnin Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...	Salome	incidental music

The Selfish Giant

Short story

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Eric Coates Eric Coates Eric Coates was an English composer of light music and a viola player.-Life:Eric was born in Hucknall in Nottinghamshire to William Harrison Coates , a surgeon, and his wife, Mary Jane Gwynne, hailing from Usk in Monmouthshire...	The Selfish Giant - A Phantasy	orchestra Orchestra An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...	1925
Dan Goeller	The Selfish Giant	orchestra Orchestra An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...	2011	Official Website Children's book/CD, with illustrations by Chris Beatrice
Jenő Hubay Jeno Hubay Eugen Huber , better known by his Hungarian name Jenő Hubay , was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.-Early life:Eugen Huber was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary...	Az önző óriás (Ger. Der selbstsüchtige Riese; Eng. The Selfish Giant), Op. 124	opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	1934	1 act; libretto by László Márkus and Jenő Mohácsi after the story by Wilde
Graeme Koehne Graeme Koehne Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...	The Selfish Giant	ballet Ballet Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...	1983	choreography by Graeme Murphy Graeme Murphy Graeme Murphy is an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancer Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies....
Jim and Dee Patton	The Selfish Giant	Rock opera Rock opera A rock opera is a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent developments include...	2008	Official Website Performed by Bongo And the Point

Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...	Sonnet: On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel	chorus Choir A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...  a cappella A cappella A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...	c. 1969

The Sphinx

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Granville Bantock Granville Bantock Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...	The Sphinx	song cycle Song cycle A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...	1941	for baritone or contralto with orchestra
Alexander Mosolov Alexander Mosolov Alexander Vasilyevich MosolovMosolov's name is transliterated variously and inconsistently between sources. Alternative spellings of Alexander include Alexandr, Aleksandr, Aleksander, and Alexandre; variations on Mosolov include Mossolov and Mossolow...	The Sphinx	cantata Cantata A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....	1925	set to a Russian translation of Wilde's poem as a graduation exercise

Symphony in Yellow

Poem

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Charles Griffes Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...	Symphony in Yellow	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...	1912	Griffes wrote a setting of this in c. 1912, as No. 2 of his Tone-Images, Op. 3 (No. 1 was also a Wilde setting, La Fuite de la Lune; and No. 3 was a poem by W. E. Henley William Ernest Henley William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus".-Life and career:... ).

Unclassified

Composer	Title	Genre	Date	Notes
Pierre Capdevielle Pierre Capdevielle (musician) Pierre Capdevielle was a French conductor, composer, and music critic. In 1938 he was awarded the Prix Blumenthal and in 1948 he founded the Centre de documentation de musique internationale. For many years he was President of France's chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music....	Deux Apologues d'Oscar Wilde (Two Moral Stories of Oscar Wilde)	recitation Recitation A recitation is a presentation made by a student to demonstrate knowledge of a subject or to provide instruction to others. In some academic institutions the term is used for a presentation by a teaching assistant or instructor, under the guidance of a senior faculty member, that supplements...  for voice and orchestra	1930-32
Francis George Scott Francis George Scott Francis George Scott was a Scottish composer.Born in Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated at Hawick, and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse...	Idyll	song Song In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...		unpublished

Sources

• Eric Blom
  Eric Blom
  Eric Walter Blom CBE was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians .-Biography:Blom was born in Berne, Switzerland...
  
  ed., Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954