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Compositions by William Alwyn

29 compositions
Composition M Catalog Comp'd Duration Publisher Notes  
Quartet [No. 0] 1920

In G minor; incomplete

Quartet [No. 1] 1922

In B-flat minor

Quartet [No. 2] 1923

In F minor

Leprechaun: A Fairy Fragment 1923 A  
5 Little Pieces 1924  
Quartet No. 3 1925

In F major

Dedicated to / written for:

Olive Pull


Quartet No. 4

A Little Quartet

192u

In C major; score lost, viola part extant

Quartet No. 5 1927

In A minor; lost

3 Pieces

Suite for String Quartet

1927

2nd and 3rd pieces lost

Dedicated to / written for:

Olive Pull (extant 1st piece)


Quartet No. 6 1927

In E minor

Dedicated to / written for:

John McEwen


Sinfonietta 1928

Incomplete

Dedicated to / written for:

Olive Pull


7 Irish Tunes 1929

Alwyn wrote six pieces in 1923, later adding the seventh, written in 1929. (The date at the end of the seventh is 1929-12-06.)

Additional references:

William Alwyn Archive, University of Cambridge Library

Quartet No. 7 1929

In A minor; the date at the end is 1929-12.

Quartet No. 8 1931

In D minor

Quartet No. 9 1931

In C major

Songs of Innocence 1932

Text by William Blake

Includes: Voice
Quartet No. 10

En voyage

1932 B  
Dedicated to / written for:

RMS Rangitiki


2 Irish Pieces 1933  
Andante con moto 193u

Fragment, perhaps a version of music in Quartet No. 11

Quartet No. 11 1933 B

In B minor

Dedicated to / written for:

Olive Pull Alwyn


Quartet No. 12

Fantasia

1935 B  
Dedicated to / written for:

Alan Bush


Quartet No. 13 [193u] 193u

Allegretto (poco allegro): fragment, not clearly related to the completed Quartet No. 13

Quartet No. 13 [1936] 1936 B  
Novelette 1939 A Oxford University Press  
Irish Suite 1940

Incomplete

3 Winter Poems 1948  
Dedicated to / written for:

John McEwen


Quartet No. 1 1953 C Alfred Lengnick

In D minor

Quartet No. 2

Spring Waters

1975 C

Alfred Lengnick

 
Commissioned by:

Norfolk and Norwich Music Club


Dedicated to / written for:

Gabrieli Quartet; Reg Williamson


Quartet No. 3 1984 C Alfred Lengnick  
Dedicated to / written for: Cecil Parrott (m.)