Frederick Delius: Chronological List of Works

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Chronological List of Delius Works
(prepared by Jeff Gower from Lionel Carley's Delius: A Life in Letters)

1885
- Zwei bräune Augen, song (H.C. Andersen)
- Over the Mountains High, song (Bjørnson)
- Pensées Mélodieuses, piano piece
- Zum Carnival, piano piece
1886-1887
- Florida, orchestral suite - two movements to be later revised
1887
- Norske Wiser, ?? - July/August
- Part songs in German: Durch den Wald; An den Sonnenshein (Reinick); Ave Maria; Sonnenscheinlied (Bjørnson); Frühlingsanbruch (Anderson)
- Norwegian Sleigh Ride, piano piece (later to be orchestrated)
- Hiawatha, tone poem after Longfellow - begun
1888
- Hiawatha, tone poem after Longfellow - completed January (original score has not survived complete)
- Paa Vidderne, melodrama (Ibsen) - begun June, completed October
- Five Songs From the Norwegian: Slumber Song (Bjørnson), The Nightingale (Welhaven), Summer Eve (J. Paulsen), Longing (Th. Kjerulf), Sunset (A. Munck)
- Swedish Folk Song Arrangement
- Hochgebirgsleben, song (Ibsen)
- O schneller, mein Ross!, song (von Geibel)
- Zanoni, incidental music (Bulwer-Lytton) - summer, unfinished
- Suite for Violin and Orchestra - summer?
- Rhapsodic Variations, for large orchestra - September, unfinished
- Three pieces for string orchestra - c. September
- String Quartet - finished October/November - MS incomplete
1889
- Sakuntala, for tenor and orchestra (Drachmann)
- Seven Songs from the Norwegian: Cradle Song (Ibsen), The Homeward Journey (A.O. Vinje), Evening Voices (Bjørnson), Young Venevil (Bjørnson), Minstrels (Ibsen), Secret Love (Bjørnson), The Bird's Story (Ibsen) (four completed, the rest 1890)
- Florida suite - revision of two movements
- Romance, for violin
- Two piano pieces
- Idylle de Printemps, for orchestra
- Small Piece, composed jointly by Grieg, Sinding, and Delius - Jotunheim, August
- Draft orchestral piece - Leirungs Hytte, Jotunheim, Norge - August - incomplete
- Chanson de Fortunio, song (Musset) - November
- Norwegian Bridal Procession (comp. Grieg) - orchestrated by Delius in December
- Suite d' Orchestre (includes Marche Caprice, revised in 1890) - May
- (Norwegian) Sleigh Ride - orchestrated
1890
- Seven Songs from the Norwegian - completed
- Irmelin, opera - begun
- Three Small Tone Poems: Sleigh Ride (1889 orchestrated version), Summer Evening, Spring Morning
- A l'Amore, orchestral fragment - (1890?)
- Petite Suite d'Orchestre
- Légendes (Sagen), for piano and orchestra - draft incomplete
- Two piano pieces - completed 1890?
- Skogen gir susende, langsom besked, song (Bjørnson) - 1890/91
- Four Heine Songs - begun
- Paa Vidderne, symphonic poem - begun
1891
- Irmelin, opera - continued
- Four Heine Songs - completed
- Maud, five songs for tenor and orchestra (Tennyson): Come into the garden; Go not, happy day; I was walking a mile; Birds in the high-hall garden
- Three Shelley Songs: Indian Love Song; Love's Philosophy; To the Queen of my Heart
- Lyse Nætter, song (Drachmann)
- Paa Vidderne - revised
1892
- Irmelin, opera - completed
- Paa Vidderne, symphonic poem - revised and completed
- Sonata in B Major for Violin and Piano
- Légende, for violin and orchestra - conceivably completed as a work for violin and piano in 1892, and orchestrated in 1895
- String Quartet - probably begun in 1892
1893
- Jeg havde en nyskaaren Seljefløjte, song (Krag)
- Nuages, song (Richepin)
- Over the Hills and Far Away, "fantasy overture" - begun? - completed 1897?
- String Quartet - completed?
1894
- The Magic Fountain, opera - begun mid 1894
- Anatomie et Physiologie de l'Orchestre, booklet by Delius and Papus
- Irmelin (piano arrangement by Florent Schmitt) - May
1895
- The Magic Fountain, opera - completed
- Deux Mélodies, songs (Verlaine): Il pleure dans mon coeur; Le ciel est par dessus la toit
- The Page sat in the lofty Tower, song (Jacobsen) - 1895?
- Légende, for violin and orchestra - orchestrated 1895?
- The Magic Fountain (piano arrangement by Florent Schmitt) - 1895?
1896
- Koanga, opera (C.F. Keary) - begun
- Appalachia, American Rhapsody for Orchestra RT (an early version of the later orchestral variations)
- Romance, for cello and piano
1897
- Koanga, opera - completed early 1897
- Piano Concerto in C Minor (first version entitled Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte)
- Florida, spring 1897; completed Paris, late 1897
- Folkeraadet, incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's play - summer/autumn
- Seven Danish Songs, with orchestral or piano arrangement - largely completed in 1897: On the Seashore (Drachmann); Through long, long years (Jacobsen); Wine Roses (Jacobsen); Let Springtime Come (Jacobsen); Irmelin Rose (Jacobsen); In the Seraglio Garden (Jacobsen); Silken Shoes (Jacobsen)
- Koanga (piano arrangement by Florent Schmitt) - 1897/8?
- A Village Romeo and Juliet (draft libretto prepared by C.F. Keary)
1898
- The Magic Fountain, opera - minor revision
- Koanga, opera - some revision
- Seven Danish Songs - some revision/completion?
- Four Nietzsche Songs - completed early 1898?: Der Wanderer und sein Schatten; Der Einsame; Der Wanderer; Nach neuen Meeren
- Mitternachtslied Zarathustras, for baritone solo, male chorus, and orchestra
- Traum Rosen, song (Marie Heinitz)
- Im Glück wir lachend gingen, song (Drachmann)
- La ronde se déroule, symphonic poem after Helge Rode RT - begun
1899
- La ronde se déroule - completed
- Paris, Nocturne (The Song of a Great City), for large orchestra
- A Village Romeo and Juliet, opera - composition substantially begun towards end of 1899
1900
- La ronde se déroule (Dansen gaar) - undergoes revision
- A Village Romeo and Juliet, opera - continued
- Two songs: The Violet and Autumn (Ludvig Holstein)
1901
- A Village Romeo and Juliet, opera - completed
- Lebenstanz, symphonic poem for large orchestra - Now completed in its first version, this was a substantial reworking of the earlier La ronde se déroule .
- Black Roses, song (Ernst Josephson)
- Jeg hører i Natten, song (Drachmann)
- Margot la Rouge, one-act opera (Rosenval, i.e. Berthe Gaston-Danville) - begun late 1901?
1902
- Margot la Rouge, one-act opera - completed
- Summer Landscape, song (Drachmann) - April
- Appalachia, Variations on an Old Slave Song, with final Chorus, for large orchestra - reworking, begun this year, of the American Rhapsody of 1896
- A Village Romeo and Juliet (piano arrangement by Florent Schmitt)
- Margot la Rouge (piano arrangement by Maurice Ravel) - Autumn
1903
- Appalachia - revised work completed?
- Sea Drift, for baritone solo, mixed chorus and large orchestra (Whitman) - begun this year?
1904
- Sea Drift - completed this year?
- A Mass of Life, for soloists, mixed double chorus and large orchestra (Nietzsche) - begun (one Dance Song completed in May)
1905
- A Mass of Life - completed
- Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano - sketched in part
1906
- Piano Concerto in C Minor - further revision
- Songs of Sunset, for soprano and baritone solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (Ernest Dowson) - begun
1907
- Piano Concerto in C Minor - further revision, Jan/Feb.
- Songs of Sunset - completed
- Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody, for orchestra
- On Craig Dhu, part-song for unaccompanied chorus (Symons) - December
- Cynara, for baritone solo and orchestra (Dowson) - draft full score
1908
- Part-songs for unaccompanied chorus (Symons): Wanderer's Song; Midsummer Song
- In a Summer Garden, Rhapsody for full Orchestra - Spring
- A Dance Rhapsody No. 1, for orchestra
- Fennimore and Gerda, opera "in eleven pictures" (Delius, after J. P. Jacobsen) - begun
1909
- Fennimore and Gerda, opera - continued
1910
- Fennimore and Gerda, opera - continued
1911
- Fennimore and Gerda, opera - completed (later revised)
- Chanson d'automne, song (Verlaine)
- Summer Night on the River, for small orchestra
- An Arabesque, for baritone solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (J.P. Jacobsen) - autumn
- The Song of the High Hills, for orchestra and wordless chorus - begun
1912
- The Song of the High Hills - completed
- Lebenstanz, symphonic poem for large orchestra - revised
- On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, for small orchestra
1913
- Fennimore and Gerda, opera - revision/addition of new ending
- I-Brasil, song (Fiona Macleod)
- Two Songs for Children, for chorus with pianoforte accompaniment (Tennyson and May Morgan)
- Requiem, for soprano and baritone, double chorus and orchestra (Heinrich Simon) - begun
- North Country Sketches, for orchestra - begun
1914
- North Country Sketches - Nos. 3 and 4 completed
- Requiem - continued
- Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano - completed
1915
- Four Old English Lyrics, songs (various authors) - No. 2-4 completed
- Double Concerto for violin, violoncello and orchestra RT
- Air and Dance, for string orchestra
- Eventyr ("Once Upon A Time", after Asbjørnsen's folklore) for orchestra - sketched
1916
- Requiem - completion of last movement
- String Quartet - three movements completed
- A Dance Rhapsody No. 2
- Four Old English Lyrics - No. 1 completed
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Sonata for Violoncello and Pianoforte
1917
- To be sung of a summer night on the water, two unaccompanied part songs (wordless) for mixed voices - late spring
- String Quartet - general revision, and Scherzo added
- Eventyr - completed
1918
- A Song Before Sunrise, for orchestra
- Poem of Life and Love, for orchestra
- Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano - first movement sketched
1919
- Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, song (Verlaine) - sketched
- Dance for Harpsichord
1920
- Songs of Farewell, for double chorus and orchestra - sketched
- Hassan, incidental music to James Elroy Flecker's drama in 5 acts - begun
1921
- Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, song (Verlaine) - some revision ?
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
- Hassan - original version completed
1922
- Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano - begun
- Five Piano Pieces - begun
- Three Preludes, for piano - begun
1923
- Five Piano Pieces - completed
- Hassan - final version completed
- The Splendour falls on Castle Walls, unaccompanied part song for mixed voices
- Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano - completed
- Three Preludes, for piano - completed
1924
- A Late Lark, for tenor and orchestra (W.E. Henley) - begun
- Fantastic Dance, for orchestra - sketched ?
- Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano - sketches for 2nd and 3rd movements
1925 - 1928
1929
- Hassan suite (arranged for orchestra) - begun January, completed May
- Cynara - completed
- A Late Lark - completed
- A Song of Summer (revision of Poem of Life and Love)
1930
- Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano - completed
- Songs of Farewell, for double chorus and orchestra (Whitman) - completed
- Caprice and Elegy, for violoncello and chamber orchestra
1931
- Irmelin, prelude for orchestra - autumn
- Fantastic Dance, for orchestra - completed
1932
- Idyll ("Once I passed thro' a populous City"), for soprano, baritone, and orchestra (text adapted from Whitman by Robert Nichols) - (a reshaping of music from Margot la Rouge) - October