Musical Works By Title - A-H

Am Grabe Anselmo’s (Schubert)

orchestrated  by Marshall-Hall for voice, flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two  horns and strings
duration: 2’20”
date: c. late  1890s
first performance: unknown
score: Undated.  Full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and  digitsed by Richard Divall.

An Australian National Song

for chorus  (SATB) and piano
date: c. 1899
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph  copy, Queen’s College Library, University of Melbourne. Published Alfred Martin  Ebsworth atThe Argus, 21 July 1899  (seehttp://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-an6481166-s3-v).

An Australian National Song [Federation Ode?]

for chorus  (SATB) and organ
date: c. 1899
first performance: Melbourne  Liedertafel Smoke Night, 25 July 1899, cond. Marshall-Hall, Athenaeum Hall,  Melbourne.
additional performances: 26 July 1899, Melbourne Town Hall the night before the Victorian  poll for the Australian Federal Referendum; Melbourne Liedertafel, Queen  Victoria Hospital Concert, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, 31 July  1899.
score: Published  Melbourne: Allan & Co., c. 1900 (seehttp://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2850841) andWeekly Times(Melbourne), 29 July 1899. Edited and  digitised by Richard Divall.

Alcestis

incidental  music to the play by Euripides
date: 1898
first performance: (scene),  Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, 28  April 1898; (complete) Trinity College Play, Town Hall, Melbourne, 22 June  1898.
additional performances: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, 1 August 1898,  Town Hall, Melbourne; Mme Slapoffski (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra,  Melbourne, 22 September 1900.
score: Dated 17  April 1898. Autograph full score, vocal score, parts and fragments in  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Choric lyrics for two choruses (in  six volumes) in archives of Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Aristodemus

opera in 25  scenes
date: 1902
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph  full score dated 11 August 1902. Autograph full score, vocal score and  librettos in English and German in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.  There are 125 printed copies of the chorus “Honour the mighty Father” from  Aristodemus in the archive of the Royal Victorian Liedertafel, Grainger Museum.

As From Thine Eyes (Wenn ich in  deine Augen seh’)

song for  voice and piano to the text by Heinrich Heine
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
additional performance: Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12  November 2010.
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

Auf dem Meere

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

By the Stream (There Is a Willow)

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

Caprice [Capriccio]

for violin  and orchestra
duration: 12’
date: c. 1910
first performance: Maurice Le  Plat (violin), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, Melbourne, 9 April 1910.
score: Undated.  Autograph full score in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and  digitised by Peter Tregear.

Caroline

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall. Published in London by Herzog, n.d.

Choral Ode

a setting of  the second part of Goethe’s Faust for  alto soloist, orchestra and mixed choir
date: 1898
first performance: Melbourne  Liedertafel, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Monday 23 October 1899.
score: Autograph  full score dated 1898. Full score and choral scores in Marshall-Hall  Collection, Grainger Museum.

Dido [or Dido and Aeneas]

opera in  five acts to a libretto by Algernon Strachey Marshall-Hall (the composer’s elder  brother)
date: c. 1880s
first performance: Scena  performed Mr L. Luscombe (soloist), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond.  Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 11 October 1899.
score: Undated.  Fragments of full score, complete vocal score and other segments held in Marshall-Hall  Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Segment  recorded under the direction of George Dreyfus.

Die alten Lieder

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

Die Blumen

Sextet for  voice, two violins, viola, cello and double bass
duration: 5’20”
date: 1886
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph  full score dated 1886. Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and  digitised by Richard Divall.

Die Ruhe

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

Fort aus dem augen

song for  voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:  Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard  Divall.

Harold

opera in  four acts to a libretto by the composer based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s  historical novel, Harold: The Last of the  Saxon Kings (1848)
date: c. 1880s
first performance: scena for  baritone, Charles Santley (baritone), London Symphony, cond. Henschel, London,  2 February 1888.
additional performances: Overture, Victorian Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne,  12 March 1891.
score: Undated.  Autograph full score, vocal score, a song and parts in Marshall-Hall  Collection, Grainger Museum. “Where the Thorny Brake,” from Harold, was published in the Magazine of Music,  September 1888.

Horn Quartet in B major

for violin,  viola, piano and horn
date: 1909
first performance: The Nora  Clench Quartet: Nora Clench (violin), James Friskin (piano), Mr A[dolph].  Borsdorf (horn), London, 6 November 1909.
additional performances: Miss Billings, Mr Toy, Mr Dawson and Mr Kühr (horn), Musical  Society of Victoria, Chapter house, Melbourne, 10 August 1912.
score: Printed by  Edmanson & Co. Score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger  Museum. Autograph score of arrangement for cello, violin, viola and piano also  in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Anthony Buddle (horn), Joyce Hutchison  (piano), Donald Hazelwood (violin), Gregory Elmologlou (cello), ABC, 1968.

Musical Works By Title - I-R

An Idyll [or Idyl]

for orchestra
duration: 13’
date: 1893–4
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, 31 March 1894.
additional performances: cond. August Manns, Saturday Concerts, Crystal Palace, London, Saturday 29 October 1898.
score: Undated. Autograph full scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

I Feel Thy Breath in Sweetness

for two voices and piano to a text by the composer
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

Ihr Bild

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Jubilum Amoris

for piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Score in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

The Lady Janet

song for voice and piano to a text by the composer
date: unknown
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

dramatic ballad for tenor and orchestra, based on the ballad by Keats (1819)
duration: 7’
date: 1893
first performance: Henry Stockwell (tenor), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday 26 August 1893.
additional performances: Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 23 September 1893. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday, 21 July 1894.
score: Autograph full scores, vocal scores and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

La Mamolette (Mozart)

song, orchestrated by Marshall-Hall
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Leonard

opera
date: c. 1880s
first performance: unknown
score: A “duett” for two voices and piano survives in the Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum (see below). Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Let Me Press Thee Once More (Duett from the Operetta Leonard)

song for two voices and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Life and Love

duet
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Little Miss Muffet

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown; performed Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Long After (from Tennyson’s “Maud”)

for soprano and orchestra
duration: 8’
date: 1895
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 6 July 1895.
additional performances: Otto Fischer Sobell (tenor) and Mme Fischer Sobell (piano), Prince’s Galleries, London, 7 December 1898; Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 13 May 1899; Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 25 August 1906. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Margaret Murdoch (soprano), Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, Saturday 5 October 1912.
score: Undated. Vocal score and orchestral parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Melody

for orchestra
duration: 4’
date: c. 1880s
first performance: unknown
score: Undated. Orchestral parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Reconstructed and edited from the orchestral parts by Richard Divall.

Mignon

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

No Sun, No Moon

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

O du leichter lose wind

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

On a Picture (O Lady of Woe)

song for voice and piano to a text by George Sandys (1577–1644)?
date: unknown
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

Overture in G minor (Giordano Bruno)

for orchestra
duration: 23’
date: 1891
first performance: August Manns (cond.), Crystal Palace Concerts, London, 4 March 1893.
additional performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 4 May 1895.
score: Autograph full score dated 1891. Autograph full scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Overture to Harold

for orchestra
duration: 28’
date: 1888
first performance: Victorian Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 12 March 1891.
score: Autograph full score dated 1888, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Parting and Meeting (Hand Clasped in Hand)

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Phantasy for Horn and Orchestra

for solo horn and orchestra, dedicated to Hermann Kühr
date: 1905
first performance: Hermann Kühr (horn), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 19 May 1906.
score: Autograph full score dated 25 October 1905. Autograph scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.
recording: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Richard Divall (unpublished). Ben Jacks (horn), Orchestra Victoria, cond. Barry Tuckwell, Melba Recordings 301117 (SACD), 2008.

Quando Miro (Mozart)

song, orchestrated by Marshall-Hall
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score:Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Romeo and Juliet

opera in four acts, an adaptation by the composer of Shakespeare’s play
date: 1911
first performance: Balcony Scene: Elisabeth Pinschoff (Juliet), Radcliffe Hawley (Romeo), Conservatorium students’ concert, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, 12 December 1912.
additional performance: Siobhan Stagg (soprano) and Brenton Spiteri (tenor) with Caroline Almonte (piano), Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Dated 1912. Autograph full score, vocal score, libretto and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Vocal and piano score published London: Enoch & Sons, 1914.

Musical Works By Title - S-Z

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

A Song Cycle of Life and Love

six songs for voice and piano: “Life and Love,” “A Voice from Dreamland,” “Meeting,” “Foreboding,” “Past (A Study on Tennyson’s ‘Oriana’),” “Long After (A Study on Tennyson’s “Maud”).”
date: c. 1908
first performance: unknown
score: Published London: Joseph Williams, 1908 (see http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-vn2798581-s5-v).

Song of the Arab

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Stella

opera in one act, to a libretto by the composer
date: 1910
first performance: Rosina Buckman (Stella), Ratcliffe Hawley (Kirke), A. Bartleman (Chamley), Stanley Horwood (Weldon), Margaret Murdoch (Mrs Chase), Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, 4 and 11 May 1912.
additional performances: Miss Constance Drever (Stella), Mr Harold Deacon (Kirke), Palladium Theatre of Varieties, London, season beginning 8 June 1914. Concert performance by Judith Dodsworth (Stella), Peter Mander (Kirke), Jennifer Marten-Smith (piano), Melba Hall, Melbourne, 8 November 1996. “Tired Nature Sleeps” performed by Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Autograph full score dated 12 May 1910. Autograph full scores, vocal scores, parts and libretti in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Copy of the copyist’s copy of the full score in the Richard Divall collection of music scores, National Library of Australia. Full score and piano-vocal score edited by Suzanne Robinson, published by the Centre for Studies in Australian Music, University of Melbourne, 1992.

String Quartet in C major

For two violins, viola and cello, “Dedicated to Herr Johann S Kruse in remembrance of his journey to the Antipodes and the music that we made there!”
duration: 24’
date: 1895
first performance: Ernest Fowles’s British Chamber Music Concerts, London, December 1895.
additional performance: Zelwood Quartet, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Undated. Holograph of full score and parts in Rare Books collection, Hanson-Dyer Music Library, University of Melbourne. Full score of second movement, and violin and cello parts, in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Ed. Richard Divall, Musica Australis Vol. XII, Melbourne: Marshall-Hall Trust, 2005.

String Quartet in D minor

for two violins, viola and cello
duration: unknown
date: 1911
first performance: 13 June 1911? Cathedral-Hall, Melbourne (Argus review does not mention it, but says that it will be repeated on 7 July at the next concert)
additional performances: Marshall-Hall chamber music concert, Toy, North, Dawson, Louis Hattenbach at Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 7 July 1911; Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 5 October 1911.
score: location unknown.

String Quartet in F

for two violins, viola and cello
duration: 23’
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Undated. Autograph score, parts and fragment in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Ed. Richard Divall, Musica Australis vol. XI, Melbourne: Marshall-Hall Trust, 2005.
recording: Final movement on Classical Music of Colonial Australia, Sound Heritage Association ASH 03, 1996.

Study on Tennyson’s “Oriana”

for piano and voice
date: unknown
first performance: O. F. Sobell (voice), Margaret Sutherland (piano). University Conservatorium concert, Melbourne, 3 June 1918.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

Symphony in C minor

for orchestra
duration: 45’
date: 1892
first performance: Adagio performed Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday 24 June 1893.
score: Autograph full score dated December 1892. Autograph full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Adagio, Queensland Theatre Orchestra, cond. Warren Bebbington, Move MD 3081, 1995. Adagio, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Richard Divall for ABC (unpublished).

Symphony in E flat

for orchestra, “An Elizabethan comedy”
date: 1903
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 28 May 1904.
additional performances: Henry J. Wood (cond.), Promenade Concerts, Queen’s Hall, London, 20 August 1907. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 10 July 1908.
score: Autograph full score dated 29 October 1903. Autograph full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Full score published Paris Co. Berlin. Piano reduction (four hands), ed. Eduard Scharf, published Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1905.
recording: Queensland Theatre Orchestra, cond. Warren Bebbington, Move MD 3081, 1995; Largamento on The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, vol. 4, Australian Composers, ABC Classics 476 6335, 2007.

To Constantia

song for voice and piano to a text by Shelley, published in Posthumous Poems (1824)
date: 1883
first performance: unknown
score: Score dated 1883. Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

To Constantia II and III

songs for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Tristesse

song for voice and piano to a text by Alfred de Musset, from Poésies nouvelles (1840)
date: unknown
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
additional performance: Siobhan Stagg with Eidit Golder, Grainger Museum, Melbourne 11 November 2010; Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

The Trojan Women

incidental music to the play by Euripides
date: 1915
first performance: Repertory Theatre, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 8 May 1915.
score: lost

Violin Fantasy [no. 2] (Deux fantasies pour violon et piano)

for violin and piano, dedicated to “Professor Hugo Heerman[n] in memory of his first visit to Australia” (in 1905)
date: 1905
first performance: unknown
score: Published by Schott, Mainz, 1907.

Violin Fantasy [no. 1] (Deux fantasies pour violon et piano)

for violin and piano, “Dedicated to my friend Eduard Scharf.”
date: c. 1907
first performance: unknown
score: Published by Schott, Mainz, in 1907.

Warum

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
additional performance: Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

What Time the Sombre Shades of Evening Fall

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

[work for piano and bassoon]

“In the Orchard, Chartersville [sic]”
date: c. late 1890s
first performance: unknown
score: Sketch in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

Yearning (Die Sehnsucht)

song for voice and piano
date: unknown
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Musical Works - Undated

As From Thine Eyes (Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’)

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Auf dem Meere

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

By the Stream (There Is a Willow)

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
additional performances: Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Caroline

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall. Published in London by Herzog, n.d.

Die Alten Lieder

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Die Ruhe

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Let Me Press Thee Once More (Duett from the Operetta Leonard)

song for two voices and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Fort aus dem augen

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

I Feel Thy Breath in Sweetness

for two voices and piano to a text by the composer
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

Ihr Bild

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Jubilee Amoris

for piano
first performance: unknown
score: Score in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

Life and Love

duet
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Little Miss Muffet

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
additional performances: Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

No Sun, No Moon

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

On a Picture (O Lady of Woe)

song for voice and piano to a text by George Sandys (1577–1644)?
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

La Mamolette (Mozart)

song, orchestrated by Marshall-Hall
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Mignon

song for voice and piano (to a French text)
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

O du leichter lose wind

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Parting and Meeting (Hand Clasped in Hand)

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Quando Miro (Mozart)

song, orchestrated by Marshall-Hall
first performance: unknown
score:Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day

song for voice and piano to a text by Shakespeare (Sonnet No. 18)
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Song of the Arab

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

String Quartet in F

for two violins, viola and cello
duration: 23’
first performance: unknown
score: Undated. Autograph score, parts and fragment in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Ed. Richard Divall, Musica Australis vol. XI, Melbourne: Marshall-Hall Trust, 2005.
recording: Final movement on Classical Music of Colonial Australia, Sound Heritage Association ASH 03, 1996.

Study on Tennyson’s “Oriana”

for piano and voice
first performance: O. F. Sobell (voice), Margaret Sutherland (piano). University Conservatorium concert, Melbourne, 3 June 1918.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

The Lady Janet

song for voice and piano to a text by the composer
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

To Constantia II and III

songs for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Tristesse

song for voice and piano to a text by Alfred de Musset, from Poésies nouvelles (1840).
first performance: Broadcast, 4 February 1946, Hooper Brewster-Jones (piano) and Mavis Roberts (soprano).
additional performances: Siobhan Stagg with Eidit Golder, Grainger Museum, Melbourne, 11 November 2010. Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Published in Songs: G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, edited by Jennifer Hill and Kerry Murphy (Parkville: Marshall-Hall Trust in association with the Centre for Studies in Australian Music at the University of Melbourne, 1998).

Warum

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

What Time the Sombre Shades of Evening Fall

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Yearning (Die Sehnsucht)

song for voice and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Musical Works - 1880-1900

c. 1880s

Leonard

opera
first performance: unknown
score: A “duett” for two voices and piano survives in the Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum (see below). Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Dido [or Dido and Aeneas]

opera in five acts to a libretto by Algernon Strachey Marshall-Hall (the composer’s elder brother)
first performance: Scena performed Mr L. Luscombe (soloist), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 11 October 1899.
score: Undated. Fragments of full score, complete vocal score and other segments held in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Segment recorded under the direction of George Dreyfus.

Harold

opera in four acts to a libretto by the composer based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s historical novel, Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings (1848)
first performance: scena for baritone, Charles Santley (baritone), London Symphony, cond. Henschel, London, 2 February 1888.
additional performances: Overture, Victorian Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 12 March 1891.
score: Undated. Autograph full score, vocal score, a song and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. “Where the Thorny Brake,” from Harold, was published in the Magazine of Music,  September 1888.

Melody

for orchestra
duration: 4’
first performance: unknown
score: Undated. Orchestral parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Reconstructed and edited from the orchestral parts by Richard Divall.

1883

To Constantia

song for voice and piano to a text by Shelley, published in Posthumous Poems (1824)
first performance: unknown
score: Score dated 1883. Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1886

Die Blumen

Sextet for voice, two violins, viola, cello and double bass
duration: 5’20”
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph full score dated 1886. Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1888

Overture to Harold

for orchestra
duration: 28’
first performance: Victorian Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 12 March 1891.
score: Autograph full score dated 1888, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1891

Overture in G minor (Giordano Bruno)

for orchestra
duration: 23’
first performance: August Manns (cond.), Crystal Palace Concerts, London, 4 March 1893.
additional performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 4 May 1895.
score: Autograph full score dated 1891. Autograph full scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1892

Symphony in C minor

for orchestra
duration: 45’
first performance: Adagio performed Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday 24 June 1893.
score: Autograph full score dated December 1892. Autograph full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Adagio, Queensland Theatre Orchestra, cond. Warren Bebbington, Move MD 3081, 1995. Adagio, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Richard Divall for ABC (unpublished).

1893

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

dramatic ballad for tenor and orchestra, based on the ballad by Keats (1819)
duration: 7’
first performance: Henry Stockwell (tenor), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday 26 August 1893.
additional performances: Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 23 September 1893. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, Saturday, 21 July 1894.
score: Autograph full scores, vocal scores and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1893–4

An Idyll [or Idyl]

for orchestra
duration: 13’
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, 31 March 1894.
additional performances: cond. August Manns, Saturday Concerts, Crystal Palace, London, Saturday 29 October 1898.
score: Undated. Autograph full scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1895

String Quartet in C major

For two violins, viola and cello, “Dedicated to Herr Johann S Kruse in remembrance of his journey to the Antipodes and the music that we made there!”
duration: 24’
first performance: Ernest Fowles’s British Chamber Music Concerts, London, December 1895.
additional performances: Zelwood Quartet, Melba Hall, 12 November 2010.
score: Undated. Holograph of full score and parts in Rare Books collection, Hanson-Dyer Music Library, University of Melbourne. Full score of second movement, and violin and cello parts, in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Ed. Richard Divall, Musica Australis Vol. XII, Melbourne: Marshall-Hall Trust, 2005.

Long After (from Tennyson’s “Maud”)

for soprano and orchestra
duration: 8’
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 6 July 1895.
additional performances: Otto Fischer Sobell (tenor) and Mme Fischer Sobell (piano), Prince’s Galleries, London, 7 December 1898; Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 13 May 1899; Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 25 August 1906. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Margaret Murdoch (soprano), Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, Saturday 5 October 1912.
score: Undated. Vocal score and orchestral parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

1898

Alcestis

incidental music to the play by Euripides
first performance: (scene), Elise Wiedermann (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, 28 April 1898; (complete) Trinity College Play, Town Hall, Melbourne, 22 June 1898.
additional performances: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, 1 August 1898, Town Hall, Melbourne; Mme Slapoffski (soprano), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, Melbourne, 22 September 1900.
score: Dated 17 April 1898. Autograph full score, vocal score, parts and fragments in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Choric lyrics for two choruses (in six volumes) in archives of Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Choral Ode

a setting of the second part of Goethe’s Faust for alto soloist, orchestra and mixed choir
first performance: Melbourne Liedertafel, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Monday 23 October 1899.
score: Autograph full score dated 1898. Full score and choral scores in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

c. late 1890s

[work for piano and bassoon]

“In the Orchard, Chartersville [sic]”
first performance: unknown
score: Sketch in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.

Am Grabe Anselmos (Schubert)

orchestrated by Marshall-Hall for voice, flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns and strings
duration: 2’20”
first performance: unknown
score: Undated. Full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitsed by Richard Divall.

c. 1899

An Australian National Song

for chorus (SATB) and piano
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph copy, Queen’s College Library, University of Melbourne. Published Alfred Martin Ebsworth at The Argus, 21 July 1899 (see http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-an6481166-s3-v).

An Australian National Song [Federation Ode?]

for chorus (SATB) and organ
first performance: Melbourne Liedertafel Smoke Night, 25 July 1899, cond. Marshall-Hall, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne.
additional performances: 26 July 1899, Melbourne Town Hall the night before the Victorian poll for the Australian Federal Referendum; Melbourne Liedertafel, Queen Victoria Hospital Concert, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, 31 July 1899.
score: Published Melbourne: Allan & Co., c. 1900 (see http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2850841) and Weekly Times (Melbourne), 29 July 1899. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.

Musical Works - 1900-1915

1902

Aristodemus

opera in 25 scenes
first performance: unknown
score: Autograph full score dated 11 August 1902. Autograph full score, vocal score and librettos in English and German in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. There are 125 printed copies of the chorus “Honour the mighty Father” from Aristodemus in the archive of the Royal Victorian Liedertafel, Grainger Museum.

1903

Symphony in E flat

for orchestra, “An Elizabethan comedy”
first performance: Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Town Hall, Melbourne, 28 May 1904.
additional performances: Henry J. Wood (cond.), Promenade Concerts, Queen’s Hall, London, 20 August 1907. Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 10 July 1908.
score: Autograph full score dated 29 October 1903. Autograph full score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Full score published Paris Co. Berlin. Piano reduction (four hands), ed. Eduard Scharf, published Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1905.
recording: Queensland Theatre Orchestra, cond. Warren Bebbington, Move MD 3081, 1995; Largamento on The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, vol. 4, Australian Composers, ABC Classics 476 6335, 2007.

1905

Phantasy for Horn and Orchestra

for solo horn and orchestra, dedicated to Hermann Kühr
first performance: Hermann Kühr (horn), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, cond. Marshall-Hall, Melbourne, 19 May 1906.
score: Autograph full score dated 25 October 1905. Autograph scores and parts, Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Richard Divall.
recording: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Richard Divall (unpublished). Ben Jacks (horn), Orchestra Victoria, cond. Barry Tuckwell, Melba Recordings 301117 (SACD), 2008.

Violin Fantasy [no. 2] (Deux fantasies pour violon et piano)

for violin and piano, dedicated to “Professor Hugo Heerman[n] in memory of his first visit to Australia” (in 1905)
first performance: unknown
score: Published by Schott, Mainz, 1907.

c. 1907

Violin Fantasy [no. 1] (Deux fantasies pour violon et piano)

for violin and piano, “Dedicated to my friend Eduard Scharf.”
first performance: unknown
score: Published by Schott, Mainz, in 1907.

c. 1908

A Song Cycle of Life and Love

six songs for voice and piano: “Life and Love,” “A Voice from Dreamland,” “Meeting,” “Foreboding,” “Past (A Study on Tennyson’s ‘Oriana’),” “Long After (A Study on Tennyson’s “Maud”).”
first performance: unknown
score: Published London: Joseph Williams, 1908 (see http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-vn2798581-s5-v).

1909

Horn Quartet in B major

for violin, viola, piano and horn
first performance: The Nora Clench Quartet: Nora Clench (violin), James Friskin (piano), Mr A[dolph]. Borsdorf (horn), London, 6 November 1909.
additional performances: Miss Billings, Mr Toy, Mr Dawson and Mr Kühr (horn), Musical Society of Victoria, Chapter house, Melbourne, 10 August 1912.
score: Printed by Edmanson & Co. Score and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Autograph score of arrangement for cello, violin, viola and piano also in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum.
recording: Anthony Buddle (horn), Joyce Hutchison (piano), Donald Hazelwood (violin), Gregory Elmologlou (cello), ABC, 1968.

c. 1910

Caprice [Capriccio]

for violin and orchestra
duration: 12’
first performance: Maurice Le Plat (violin), Marshall-Hall Orchestra, Melbourne, 9 April 1910.
score: Undated. Autograph full score in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Edited and digitised by Peter Tregear.

1910

Stella

opera in one act, to a libretto by the composer
first performance: Rosina Buckman (Stella), Ratcliffe Hawley (Kirke), A. Bartleman (Chamley), Stanley Horwood (Weldon), Margaret Murdoch (Mrs Chase), Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, 4 and 11 May 1912.
additional performances: Miss Constance Drever (Stella), Mr Harold Deacon (Kirke), Palladium Theatre of Varieties, London, season beginning 8 June 1914. Excerpts performed by Judith Dodsworth (Stella), Peter Mander (Kirke), Jennifer Marten-Smith (piano), Melbourne, 8 November 1996. “Tired Nature Sleeps” performed Rosamund Illing with Caroline Almonte, Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Autograph full score dated 12 May 1910. Autograph full scores, vocal scores, parts and libretti in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Copy of the copyist’s copy of the full score in the Richard Divall collection of music scores, National Library of Australia. Full score and piano-vocal score edited by Suzanne Robinson, published by the Centre for Studies in Australian Music, University of Melbourne, 1992.

1911

String Quartet in D min

for two violins, viola and cello
duration: unknown
first performance: 13 June 1911? Cathedral-Hall, Melbourne (Argus review does not mention it, but says that it will be repeated on 7 July at the next concert)
additional performances: Marshall-Hall chamber music concert, Toy, North, Dawson, Louis Hattenbach at Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 7 July 1911; Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 5 October 1911.
score: location unknown.

1912

Romeo and Juliet

opera in four acts, an adaptation by the composer of Shakespeare’s play
first performance: Balcony Scene: Elisabeth Pinschoff (Juliet), Radcliffe Hawley (Romeo), Conservatorium students’ concert, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, 12 December 1912.
additional performances: Siobhan Stagg (soprano) and Brenton Spiteri (tenor) with Caroline Almonte (piano), Melba Hall, Melbourne, 12 November 2010.
score: Dated 1912. Autograph full score, vocal score, libretto and parts in Marshall-Hall Collection, Grainger Museum. Vocal and piano score published London: Enoch & Sons, 1914.

1915

The Trojan Women

incidental music to the play by Euripides
first performance: Repertory Theatre, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 8 May 1915.
score: lost