Works by the British composer
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.
Life
Background and early education
Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...
(17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983).
Sacred choral works
Service settings and canticles
*''Missa Sine Nomine'' (Mass in the Dorian Mode) (1912)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G'' (1918)
*
Requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Collegium Regale
is a collection of choral settings by the English composer Herbert Howells of the canticles for the Anglican services of Mattins, Holy Communion and Evening Prayer. Scored for four-part choir, solo tenor and organ, the pieces were written be ...
'' (1944/45)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Men's Voices and Organ'' (1941)
* ''
Gloucester Service
The ''Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral'', also known as the ''Gloucester Service'', is a setting by the English composer Herbert Howells of the and for the Anglican service of Evensong. Scored for four-part choir and or ...
'' (1946)
* ''Te Deum and Bendictus for Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury'' (1947)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (New College Oxford)'' (1949)
* ''
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral
The and for St Paul's Cathedral, also known as the ''St Paul's Service'', is a setting by the English composer Herbert Howells of the and for the Anglican service of Evensong. Scored for four-part choir and organ, it was written in 1950 fo ...
'' (1950)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Worcester)'' (1951)
* ''
Hymnus Paradisi
''Hymnus Paradisi'' is a choral work by Herbert Howells for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra. The work was inspired in part by the death from polio of his son Michael in 1935. Howells wrote the work from 1936 to 1938, draw ...
'' (1951)
* ''Te Deum and Bendictus for St.George's Chapel, Windsor'' (1952)
* ''Missa Sabriensis for Worcester Cathedral'' (1954)
* ''
Office of the Holy Communion (Collegium Regale)'' (1956)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St. Peter's, Westminster)'' (1957)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense)'' (1957)
* ''Missa Aedis Christi'' (1958)
* Stabat Mater (1965)
* ''Te Deum for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol'' (1965)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Sarum)'' (1966)
* ''Te Deum for Searle Wright at St.Paul's Church Columbia University'' (1966)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Winchester)'' (1967)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Chichester)'' (1967)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St.Augustine's Birmingham)'' (1967)
* ''Preces and Responses'' (1967)
* ''Coventry Mass'' (1968)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Hereford)'' (1969)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense)'' (1970)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (York)'' (1973)
* ''Te Deum for the West Ridings Cathedrals Festival'' (1974)
* ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Dallas)'' (1975)
* ''Te Deum for Washington Cathedral''
Hymn tunes
* ''Erwin'' (1967)
* ''In Manus Tuas'' (1968)
* ''Kensington'' (1968)
* ''Michael'' ("
All My Hope on God is Founded
"All My Hope on God is Founded" is a well-known hymn, originally German, which was translated into English in 1899 and which established itself in the latter part of the twentieth century.
History Words
The original words "Meine Hoffnung stehet ...
") (1938)
* ''Newnham'' (1968)
* ''Salisbury'' (1968)
* ''Sancta Civitas'' (1962)
* ''
Twigworth
Twigworth is a small village near Gloucester in Tewkesbury (borough), the Borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. The population of Twigworth Parish was 340 people in mid-2014 in 170 households. A planning application for 725 new homes ...
'' ("God is love, let heaven adore him") (1968)
Anthems
* ''Blessed are the Dead'' (1920)
* ''By Whose Breath All Souls and Seeds are Living''
* ''A Christmas Carol - So now is come our Joyful'st Feast'' (1957)
* ''Coventry Antiphon'' (1961)
* ''Even such is Time'' (1913)
* ''God be in my head'' (1966)
* ''God is Gone Up'' (1950)
* ''God Is Love''
* ''A Golden Lullaby'' (1920)
* ''A Grace for 10 Downing Street'' (1972)
* ''Here is the little door'' (1918)
* ''Holy Spirit Ever Dwelling''
* ''A Hymn for St. Cecilia'' (1960)
* ''I love all beauteous things'' (1977)
* ''O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem'' (1941)
* ''
Like as the hart'' (1941)
* ''The Key of the Kingdom'' (1947)
* ''King of Glory'' (1949)
* Latin Church Music I: ''Salve Regina & O Salutaris Hostia'' (1915)
* Latin Church Music II: ''Regina Caell''
* Latin Church Music III: ''Nunc Dimittis''
* ''Levavi oculos meos''
* ''Long Long Ago'' (1950)
* ''Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity'' (1972)
* ''O Holy City (Sancta Civitas)'' (1968)
* ''Salvator Mundi (O Saviour of the World)'' (1981)
* ''Sing lullaby'' (1920)
* ''A Sequence for St. Michael'' (1961)
* ''
A Spotless Rose
"" (literally "A rose has sprung up") is a Christmas carol and Hymns to Mary, Marian hymn of German origin. It is most commonly translated into English as "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming" and is also called "A Spotless Rose" and "Behold a Rose of J ...
'' (1919)
* ''Take him, earth, for cherishing'' (1963)
* ''Thee Will I Love'' (1970)
* ''A True Story'' (1917)
* ''Tune thy Music'' (1927)
* ''Where Wast Thou? - Motet for Canterbury'' (1948)
Orchestral works
* ''Concerto for String Orchestra'' (1938)
* ''Fanfare'' (1977)
* ''The King's Herald'' (1937)
* Cello Concerto (1936)
* ''Merry-Eye'' (1920)
* ''Music for a Prince: Two Pieces for Orchestra'' (1948)
* ''Penguinski'' (1933)
* Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 39 (1925)
* Serenade for 4 solo violins and string orchestra (1917)
* ''Puck's Minuet'' (1917)
* Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 (1913)
* Suite for string orchestra'' (1942)
* Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra, Op. 15 (1917)
Chamber works
* Three Dances (1915)
* ''Lady Audrey's Suite'', Op. 19 (String Quartet No. 1) (1915)
* Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (1916)
* ''Fantasy String Quartet'', Op. 25 (String Quartet No. 2) (1917)
* ''Rhapsodic Quintet'', Op. 31 (1919)
* String Quartet No. 3, "In Gloucestershire" (1916–20)
*
Oboe Sonata (1942)
(suppressed)
*
Clarinet Sonata A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.
The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance in the development of the clarinet repertoire. Several important transcriptions are also p ...
(1946)
Keyboard works
* ''Summer Idyls'' (1911)
[Schellhorn, Matthew]
'Resurrecting Howells's extraordinary piano works'
in ''Gramophone'', July 2020
* ''Phantasy'' (1917)
* ''Harlequin Dreaming'' (1918)
* ''Lambert's Clavichord'', opus 41 (1927)
* ''My Lord Harewood's Galliard'' (1949)
* ''Howells' Clavichord'' (1961)
* Polka for two pianos (1951)
* ''Finzi: His Rest'' (1956)
* ''Siciliana'' (1958)
* ''Pavane and Galliard'' (1964)
* ''Petrus Suite'' (1967-73)
Organ
* ''Cradle Song'' (1913)
* ''Flourish for a Bidding'' (1969)
* ''Fugue, Chorale and Epilogue'' (1940)
* ''Intrada No. 2'' (1941)
* ''Master Tallis's Testament'' (1940)
* Organ Sonata No. 1 in C (1911)
* ''Paean'' (1940)
* Partita (1972)
* Prelude ''De Profundis'' (1958)
* ''Preludio Sine Nomine'' (1940)
* Three Rhapsodies (1919)
* ''Rhapsody No. 4 Bene Psallite in Vociferatione'' (1958)
* ''Saraband for the Morning of Easter'' (1940)
* ''Saraband in Modo Elegiaco'' (1945)
* ''Siciliano for a High Ceremony'' (1952)
* Six Pieces for organ (1945)
* ''Six Short Pieces'' for Organ
* Organ Sonata No. 2 (1933)
* ''St. Louis comes to Clifton'' (1977)
* ''Epilogue (Hovingham Sketches)'' (1974)
* Three Pieces for organ (1977)
* ''Three Psalm Preludes Set 1'' (1916)
* ''Three Psalm Preludes Set 2'' (1939)
* Two Pieces (1959)
* ''Two Slow Airs for Organ'' (1928)
Chorus and Orchestra
* ''Behold, O God, Our Defender'' (1952)
* ''An English Mass'' (1955)
* ''The House of the Mind'' (1954)
* ''A Hymn for St Cecilia'' (1960)
* ''Hymnus Paradisi'' (1938)
* ''A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song'' (1933)
* ''A Maid Peerless'' (1951)
* ''Michael- a Fanfare Setting''
* ''Missa Sabrinensis - The Severn Mass'' (1954)
* ''O Mortal Man (Sussex Mummers' Carol)''
* ''Sine Nomine: A Phantasy'' (1922)
* ''Sir Patrick Spens'' (1917)
* Stabat Mater (1963)
* Te Deum (1944)
* ''When Cats Run Home'' (1907)
Harp
* ''Prelude for Harp'' (1915)
References
Citations
Sources
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