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Edmund Rubbra

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A Duan of Barra, op.20 (3)
A Hymn to the Virgin, op.13 no.2 (5)
A Prayer, op.17 no.1 (2)
A Tribute, op.56 (1)
Amoretti, op.43 (3)
Ave Maria Gratia Plena (3)
A widow bird sate mourning, op.28 (1)
Cello Sonata in G minor, op.60 (2)
Cradle Song, op.8 no.1 (2)
Dear Liza, op.7 (1)
Discourse for harp and cello, op.127 (2)
Duo for Cor Anglais and Piano, op.156 (2)
Fanfare for Europe (1)
Festival Gloria, op.94 (2)
Festival Overture, op.62 (1)
Fly Envious Time, op.148 (1)
Fukagawa (Deep River) for harp (1)
Improvisation for Cello, op.124 (1)
Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra, op.89 (1)
Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op.50 (2)
In Dark Weather, op.33 (2)
Invocation to Spring, op.17 no.2 (1)
It was a lover, op.13 no.3 (1)
Jesukin, op.4 no.2 (4)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A flat major, op.65 (5)
Mediaeval Songs (2) (1)
Meditation for Organ, op.79 (1)
Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn for solo viola, op.117 (3)
Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn for viola duet, op.117a (1)
Missa Cantuariensis, op.59 'Canterbury Mass' (3)
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominci, op.66 'St Dominic Mass' (2)
Motets (3), op.76 (1)
Motets (5), op.37 (2)
Nature's Song (1)
No Swan So Fine, op.91 (1)
Nocturne, op.54 (1)
Nod (1)
Oboe Sonata, op.100 (2)
Ode to the Queen, op.83 (1)
Orpheus with his Lute, op.8 no.2 (3)
Out in the dark, op.13 no.1 (1)
Overture Resurgam (1)
Passacaglia sopra Plusieurs regrets, op.113 (1)
Pezzo ostinato for harp, op.102 (1)
Piano Concerto, op.30 (1)
Piano Concerto in G major, op.85 (1)
Piano Trio in One Movement, op.68 (2)
Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Cyril Scott, op.69 (arr. for Organ) (1)
Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Cyril Scott, op.69 (1)
Preludes nos.1-8 (1)
Psalms (3), op.61 (4)
Rosa mundi, op.2 (4)
Rune of Hospitality, op.15 (3)
Salutation, op.82 (1)
Salve, Regina, op.119 (1)
Sinfonia Concertante, op.38 (1)
Soliloquy for cello and orchestra, op.57 (2)
Sonatina for Treble Recorder and Harpsichord, op.128 (1)
Songs (2), op.22 (1)
Sonnets (2) by William Alabaster, op.87 (2)
String Quartet no.1 in F minor, op.35 (2)
String Quartet no.2 in E flat major, op.73 (2)
String Quartet no.3, op.112 (2)
String Quartet no.4, op.150 (2)
Symphony no.1, op.44 (1)
Symphony no.2, op.45 (4)
Symphony no.3, op.49 (3)
Symphony no.4, op.53 (6)
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Symphony no.5, op.63 (4)
Symphony no.6, op.80 (4)
Symphony no.7, op.88 (3)
Symphony no.8, op.132 'Hommage a Teilhard de Chardin' (3)
Symphony no.9, op.140 'Sinfonia Sacra' (2)
Symphony no.10, op.145 'Sinfonia da Camera' (2)
Symphony no.11, op.153 (2)
Tenebrae Motets, op.72: First Nocturn (1)
Tenebrae Motets, op.72: Second Nocturn (2)
Tenebrae Motets, op.72: Third Nocturn (2)
Tenebrae Nocturns (3), op.72 (2)
The Jade Mountain, op.116 (2)
The Morning Watch, op.55 (1)
The Mystery, op.4 no.1 (4)
The Night, op.14 (1)
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn (1)
There is a spirit (2)
Transformations for harp, op.141 (1)
Two Sonnets by William Alabaster (2)
Variations on The Shining River, op.101 (1)
Variations on a Phyrgian Theme (1)
Viola Concerto in A major, op.75 (1)
Violin Concerto, op.103 (3)
Violin Sonata no.2, op.31 (2)
Who is Silvia?, op.8 no.3 (1)

Edmund Rubbra (23 May 1901 – 14 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven symphonies. Although he was active at a time when many people wrote twelve-tone music, he decided not to write in this idiom himself. Instead he devised his own distinctive style. His later works were not as popular with the concert-going public as his previous ones had been, although he never lost the respect of his colleagues. Therefore his output as a whole is less celebrated today than would have been expected from its sheer merit and from his early popularity. Yet his compositions are full of drama, with often enough an improvisatory element.

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