John Ireland (1879-1962) is best known for his songs (such as "Sea Fever", "The Bells of San Marie" and the cycle of Housman settings, "The Land of Lost Content"), his piano and chamber music, his church music and his relatively small number of choral, orchestral and brass band works. This book lists his compositions from 1895 to 1961.
John Ireland (1879-1962) was one of the leading composers of the English Musical Renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. This catalogue of his compositions, a revised and enlarged edition of the one published in 1993 by the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), in association with the John Ireland Trust, lists his compositions from 1895 to 1961. Full details are given of dates of composition; people or bodies responsible for a work's commission; instrumentation; first performance; publications; location of the autograph manuscript; critical comment in the bibliography from the contemporary press and music journals; and recordings on compact disc. Appended is a general bibliography and classified index of main works. A list of personalia supplies details of people connected with Ireland and his music during his lifetime.
