William Henry Reed
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William Henry "Billy" Reed (29 July 1876 – 2 July 1942) was an English
violin
ist, teacher, minor composer
, conductor
and biographer of Sir Edward Elgar
. He was leader of the London Symphony Orchestra
for 23 years (1912–1935), but is best known for his long personal friendship with Elgar (1910–1934) and his book Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor
. The book also provides a large number of Elgar's sketches for his unfinished Third Symphony
, which proved invaluable sixty years later when Anthony Payne
elaborated and essentially completed the work, although Reed wrote that in his view the symphony could not be completed.
His name appears in various forms: William Henry Reed, W. H. Reed, W. H. "Billy" Reed, Billy Reed and Willie Reed. He was known to his friends as Billy.
, Somerset
. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music
in London
under Émile Sauret
, Frederick Corder
and others, graduating with honours.
He first met Edward Elgar
in 1902, as a violinist in the Queen's Hall
Orchestra. On 17 January, Elgar has just completed a rehearsal of his incidental music
to Grania and Diarmid
with the orchestra, when Reed approached him, introduced himself, and asked whether he gave lessons in harmony and counterpoint. Elgar said "My dear boy, I don't know anything about those things". They did not become personal friends at that time; however, their paths continued to cross in the course of their work. Reed was a founding member of the London Symphony Orchestra
in 1904. His physical appearance was quite similar to that of Elgar's close friend August Jaeger
(the "Nimrod" of the Enigma Variations
of 1899), and that may have played some part in Elgar's always having something positive and encouraging to say to Reed whenever they happened to meet.
On 27 May 1910, Elgar and Reed happened by chance to meet on Regent Street, London. Elgar said he was having some issues with the writing of his Violin Concerto
and asked Reed if he could assist him. This was the real beginning of their great friendship, which lasted until Elgar's death in February 1934. Reed was the first to play through the sketches of the concerto, at Elgar's flat. He was also the first to play the concerto before an audience, in a semi-public performance at the Three Choirs Festival
in Gloucester
on 4 September 1910. The official premiere of the work was on 10 November, with the dedicatee Fritz Kreisler
as soloist.
Elgar was Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1911-1912, and Reed became the leader of the orchestra in 1912. In 1914 Elgar dedicated his piece for strings and organ, Sospiri
, Op. 70 to Billy Reed. Reed had himself been composing for some years by now: his String Quartet No. 5 in A minor won a second prize in the Cobbett Competition in 1916.
Elgar continued to turn to Reed for advice on technical problems involving the violin, such as the Violin Sonata in E minor
, Op. 82 (1918). The sonata was premiered in 1919 at the Aeolian Hall in London, by Billy Reed, with Landon Ronald
at the piano. Reed also gave the second performance, but the work's main players then became Albert Sammons
and William Murdoch
. Reed also participated in the first performances of the String Quartet in E minor
, Op. 83 and the Piano Quintet in A minor
, Op. 84. These three works were written concurrently, when Elgar was living at Brinkwells, near Fittleworth
in Sussex, and Reed often stayed at his house and went walking with him during this time.
Elgar's wife died in 1920, and at her funeral at St Wulstan's Church, Little Malvern
, Billy Reed was part of the quartet that played a movement from Elgar's String Quartet.
In 1932 Elgar started writing his Third Symphony
in earnest, after a BBC commission in which Reed and George Bernard Shaw
played a part. He had been musing over such a work for some years, and had jotted down various themes and ideas on different pieces of manuscript paper. Now, he set about bringing them all together. He and Billy Reed would often try out certain sketches on violin and piano. In October 1933, however, Elgar's cancer was diagnosed, and he died in February 1934. During that period of illness, he was able to jot down only a few more notes for the symphony, and he knew he would not be able to finish it. In December 1933, he said to Reed: "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy - burn it!" But Reed kept the sketches, amounting to 172 pages. After Elgar's death, George Bernard Shaw encouraged Reed to record his memories of Elgar; the book Elgar As I Knew Him was published in 1936, two years after Elgar's death. The book included facsimile reproductions of many of the 172 pages of sketches and also the instructions Elgar had given Reed for playing them and his guidance on where each sketch fitted into the overall work. Reed had also published the complete sketches in his article, "Elgar's Third Symphony" in The Listener (23 August 1935). These and other materials were later to prove invaluable for Anthony Payne
, who first came across them in Reed's book in 1972. The first recording of Payne's elaboration of Elgar's sketches for the Third Symphony included a 70-minute discussion by Payne, including the sketches Elgar and Reed had played over on violin and piano. Billy Reed's own violin was used for this recording, with Robert Gibbs
playing the violin and David Owen Norris
the piano.
W. H. Reed had ceased to be the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1935, although he still assumed that role on certain special occasions. Instead, he became chairman of the orchestra's board of directors. He had also taught at the Royal College of Music
throughout his performing career, and was made a Fellow of the college. His students there included George Weldon
, Imogen Holst
, and Jean Johnstone (the future wife of William Lloyd Webber
and mother of Andrew
and Julian Lloyd Webber
).
In 1939 he was awarded a Doctorate of Music by the University of Cambridge
. That year he wrote more on Edward Elgar as part of the "Master Musicians" series.
After retirement from active performing, he devoted much of his time to examining students and adjudicating competitions. He did a great deal of work conducting amateur orchestras and ensembles. In 1933 he became conductor of the Strolling Players.
It was on a trip to Scotland
to examine and adjudicate for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
that he died suddenly, in Dumfries
, on 2 July 1942, aged 65. His ashes were interred in Worcester Cathedral
, near the "Gerontius" window.
In the film Elgar's Tenth Muse: The Life of an English Composer, Billy Reed was played by Rupert Frazer.
, the Three Choirs Festival
s, and at Bournemouth
, but his name as a composer was overshadowed by that of an Elgar biographer, and his works slipped from the repertoire. They are now starting to be performed again and recorded.
His works include:
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist, teacher, minor composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
and biographer of Sir Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
. He was leader of the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
for 23 years (1912–1935), but is best known for his long personal friendship with Elgar (1910–1934) and his book Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor
Violin Concerto (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success....
. The book also provides a large number of Elgar's sketches for his unfinished Third Symphony
Symphony No. 3 (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Third Symphony was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as "Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by...
, which proved invaluable sixty years later when Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne...
elaborated and essentially completed the work, although Reed wrote that in his view the symphony could not be completed.
His name appears in various forms: William Henry Reed, W. H. Reed, W. H. "Billy" Reed, Billy Reed and Willie Reed. He was known to his friends as Billy.
Biography
William Henry Reed was born in FromeFrome
Frome is a town and civil parish in northeast Somerset, England. Located at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the town is built on uneven high ground, and centres around the River Frome. The town is approximately south of Bath, east of the county town, Taunton and west of London. In the 2001...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
in 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...
under Émile Sauret
Émile Sauret
Émile Sauret was a French violinist and composer.-Biography:He began studying violin at the Conservatory at Strasburg at the age of six and began concertizing two years later. He studied under Charles de Bériot and later became the student of Henri Vieuxtemps.Sauret made his American debut in 1872...
, Frederick Corder
Frederick Corder
Frederick Corder was an English composer and music teacher.-Biography:Corder was born in Hackney, the son of Micah Corder and his wife Charlotte Hill. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and started music lessons, particularly piano, early. Later he studied with Henry Gadsby...
and others, graduating with honours.
He first met Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
in 1902, as a violinist in the Queen's Hall
Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect T.E. Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. From 1895 until 1941, it was the home of the promenade concerts founded by Robert...
Orchestra. On 17 January, Elgar has just completed a rehearsal of his 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"....
to Grania and Diarmid
Diarmuid and Grania
Diarmuid and Grania is a play in poetic prose co-written by George Moore and W. B. Yeats in 1901, with incidental music by the English composer Edward Elgar.-Play:...
with the orchestra, when Reed approached him, introduced himself, and asked whether he gave lessons in harmony and counterpoint. Elgar said "My dear boy, I don't know anything about those things". They did not become personal friends at that time; however, their paths continued to cross in the course of their work. Reed was a founding member of the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
in 1904. His physical appearance was quite similar to that of Elgar's close friend August Jaeger
August Jaeger
August Jaeger was an Anglo-German music publisher, who developed a close friendship with the English composer Edward Elgar.Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Jaeger met Elgar through his employment at the London music publisher Novello...
(the "Nimrod" of the Enigma Variations
Enigma Variations
Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra , Op. 36, commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1898–1899. It is Elgar's best-known large-scale composition, for both the music itself and the...
of 1899), and that may have played some part in Elgar's always having something positive and encouraging to say to Reed whenever they happened to meet.
On 27 May 1910, Elgar and Reed happened by chance to meet on Regent Street, London. Elgar said he was having some issues with the writing of his Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success....
and asked Reed if he could assist him. This was the real beginning of their great friendship, which lasted until Elgar's death in February 1934. Reed was the first to play through the sketches of the concerto, at Elgar's flat. He was also the first to play the concerto before an audience, in a semi-public performance at the Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival
The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held each August alternately at the cathedrals of the Three Counties and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme...
in Gloucester
Gloucester
Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
on 4 September 1910. The official premiere of the work was on 10 November, with the dedicatee Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
as soloist.
Elgar was Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1911-1912, and Reed became the leader of the orchestra in 1912. In 1914 Elgar dedicated his piece for strings and organ, Sospiri
Sospiri
Sospiri, Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp and organ composed by Edward Elgar just before the beginning of World War I....
, Op. 70 to Billy Reed. Reed had himself been composing for some years by now: his String Quartet No. 5 in A minor won a second prize in the Cobbett Competition in 1916.
Elgar continued to turn to Reed for advice on technical problems involving the violin, such as the Violin Sonata in E minor
Violin Sonata (Elgar)
Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, in 1918, at the same time as he wrote his String Quartet in E minor and his Piano Quintet in A minor...
, Op. 82 (1918). The sonata was premiered in 1919 at the Aeolian Hall in London, by Billy Reed, with Landon Ronald
Landon Ronald
Sir Landon Ronald was an English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator...
at the piano. Reed also gave the second performance, but the work's main players then became Albert Sammons
Albert Sammons
Albert Edward Sammons CBE was an English violinist, composer and later violin teacher. Almost self-taught on the violin, he had a wide repertoire as both chamber musician and soloist, although his reputation rests mainly on his association with British composers, especially Elgar...
and William Murdoch
William Murdoch
William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.He was the inventor of the oscillating steam...
. Reed also participated in the first performances of the String Quartet in E minor
String Quartet (Elgar)
The String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, was one of three major chamber music works composed by Sir Edward Elgar in 1918. The others were the Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, and the Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84. Along with the Cello Concerto in E minor, Op...
, Op. 83 and the Piano Quintet in A minor
Piano Quintet (Elgar)
The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar.He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex. W. H...
, Op. 84. These three works were written concurrently, when Elgar was living at Brinkwells, near Fittleworth
Fittleworth
Fittleworth is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located seven kilometres west from Pulborough on the A283 road and three miles south east from Petworth. The village has an Anglican church, a primary school and one pub, the Swan...
in Sussex, and Reed often stayed at his house and went walking with him during this time.
Elgar's wife died in 1920, and at her funeral at St Wulstan's Church, Little Malvern
Little Malvern
Little Malvern is a small village and a civil parish on the lower slopes of the Malvern Hills south of Malvern Wells, near Great Malvern, the major centre of the area often referred to as The Malverns. in Worcestershire, England. It contains a Romanesque church called Little Malvern Priory, after...
, Billy Reed was part of the quartet that played a movement from Elgar's String Quartet.
In 1932 Elgar started writing his Third Symphony
Symphony No. 3 (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Third Symphony was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as "Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by...
in earnest, after a BBC commission in which Reed and George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
played a part. He had been musing over such a work for some years, and had jotted down various themes and ideas on different pieces of manuscript paper. Now, he set about bringing them all together. He and Billy Reed would often try out certain sketches on violin and piano. In October 1933, however, Elgar's cancer was diagnosed, and he died in February 1934. During that period of illness, he was able to jot down only a few more notes for the symphony, and he knew he would not be able to finish it. In December 1933, he said to Reed: "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy - burn it!" But Reed kept the sketches, amounting to 172 pages. After Elgar's death, George Bernard Shaw encouraged Reed to record his memories of Elgar; the book Elgar As I Knew Him was published in 1936, two years after Elgar's death. The book included facsimile reproductions of many of the 172 pages of sketches and also the instructions Elgar had given Reed for playing them and his guidance on where each sketch fitted into the overall work. Reed had also published the complete sketches in his article, "Elgar's Third Symphony" in The Listener (23 August 1935). These and other materials were later to prove invaluable for Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne...
, who first came across them in Reed's book in 1972. The first recording of Payne's elaboration of Elgar's sketches for the Third Symphony included a 70-minute discussion by Payne, including the sketches Elgar and Reed had played over on violin and piano. Billy Reed's own violin was used for this recording, with Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
Robert Lane Gibbs was the 28th White House Press Secretary. Gibbs was the communications director for then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama and Obama's 2008 presidential campaign...
playing the violin and David Owen Norris
David Owen Norris
-Life:Norris was born in 1953. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford where he was organ scholar; he is now an Honorary Fellow of the college. After leaving Oxford, he studied composition, and worked at the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur...
the piano.
W. H. Reed had ceased to be the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1935, although he still assumed that role on certain special occasions. Instead, he became chairman of the orchestra's board of directors. He had also taught at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
throughout his performing career, and was made a Fellow of the college. His students there included George Weldon
George Weldon
George Weldon was an English conductor.-Biography:Weldon was educated at Sherborne School and at the Royal College of Music. He studied conducting with Malcolm Sargent and Aylmer Buesst...
, Imogen Holst
Imogen Holst
Imogen Clare Holst, CBE was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst.Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music...
, and Jean Johnstone (the future wife of William Lloyd Webber
William Lloyd Webber
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber was an English organist and composer.-Life and career:Lloyd Webber was born in London...
and mother of Andrew
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
and Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...
).
In 1939 he was awarded a Doctorate of Music by the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. That year he wrote more on Edward Elgar as part of the "Master Musicians" series.
After retirement from active performing, he devoted much of his time to examining students and adjudicating competitions. He did a great deal of work conducting amateur orchestras and ensembles. In 1933 he became conductor of the Strolling Players.
It was on a trip to Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
to examine and adjudicate for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
ABRSM is an internationally recognised educational body and charity that provides examinations in music The organisation, based in London, UK, runs exams in centres all over the world...
that he died suddenly, in Dumfries
Dumfries
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South...
, on 2 July 1942, aged 65. His ashes were interred in Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England; situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester...
, near the "Gerontius" window.
In the film Elgar's Tenth Muse: The Life of an English Composer, Billy Reed was played by Rupert Frazer.
Composer
W. H. Reed was also a composer in his own right and established a growing reputation. Some of his works were given their first performances at The PromsThe Proms
The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London...
, the Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival
The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held each August alternately at the cathedrals of the Three Counties and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme...
s, and at Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...
, but his name as a composer was overshadowed by that of an Elgar biographer, and his works slipped from the repertoire. They are now starting to be performed again and recorded.
His works include:
- Valse brillante (1898, orchestra)
- Touchstone, overture (1899)
- Valse elegante (1903, orchestra)
- Suite Venitienne (1903, orchestra)
- Variations Caracteristiques for strings (1911)
- Will o' the Wisp, orchestra (1913; published 1924)
- String Quartet No. 5 in A minor (1915, pub.1916; this won a second prize in the Cobbett Competition, and presumably there were four earlier quartets)
- Violin Concerto in A minor (1918; published in piano reduction)
- Viola Concerto (1918)
- Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra in E minor (1920)
- The Lincoln Imp, orchestra (1921)
- Among the Mountains of Cambria, symphonic poem (1922)
- Aesop's Fables, orchestra (1924)
- Two Somerset Idylls, orchestra (1926)
- Rhapsody for viola and piano (1927)
- Shockheaded Peter, orchestra (1933)
- Earl Haldan's Daughter, choral ballad (1939)
- Merry Andrew, overture (1940)
- Symphony for strings
- Down in the West Country, strings and timpani
- Caliban, symphonic poem
- Scenes from the Ballet, orchestra
- Miniature Suite, orchestra
- Elegie
- Intermezzo
- Pastorale
- Men of Kent
- March of the Prefects (school orchestra)
- Stately Dance (school orchestra)
- Patrol (school orchestra)
- School March (school orchestra)
- String Trio (unpublished)
- Risenlied, violin and piano
- Introduction and Rondo Caprice, clarinet and piano
- On Waterford Quay: An Irish Impression
- Reverie
- Toccata for Violin & Piano
- Fantaisie Brillante
- Two Chinese Impressions
- Andante con moto
- Punjabi Song
- Lento and Prelude
- Spanish Dance
- Luddi Dance
- Andante Tranquillo
- arrangement of the Welsh folk song The Gentle Dove
- arrangement for violin and piano of Dreaming from Elgar's Nursery SuiteNursery SuiteThe Nursery Suite is one of the last compositions by Edward Elgar. Like Elgar's The Wand of Youth suites, it makes use of sketches from the composer's childhood.There are seven movements and a coda:...
- Treasury of Christmas Music for mixed voices with accompaniment ad lib
- songs to texts by Christina RossettiChristina RossettiChristina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
and Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...