Gerald Finzi

British composer

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was an English composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and string orchestra, and his concertos for cello and clarinet.

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Works

A Young Man's Exhortation: 1. A Young Man's Exhortation
A Young Man's Exhortation: 10. The Dance Continued
A Young Man's Exhortation: 2. Ditty
A Young Man's Exhortation: 3. Budmouth Dears
A Young Man's Exhortation: 4. Her Temple
A Young Man's Exhortation: 5. The Comet at Yell'ham
A Young Man's Exhortation: 6. Shortening Days
A Young Man's Exhortation: 7. The Sigh
A Young Man's Exhortation: 8. Former Beauties
A Young Man's Exhortation: 9. Transformations
A Young Man’s Exhortation, op. 14
All This Night, op. 33
Before and After Summer, op. 16
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 1. Childhood Among the Ferns
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 10. He Abjures Love
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 2. Before and After Summer
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 3. The Self-Unseeing
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 4. Overlooking the River
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 5. Channel Firing
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 6. In the Mind's Eye
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 7. The Too Short Time
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 8. Epeisodia
Before and After Summer, op. 16: 9. Amabel
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: I. Paying Calls
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: II. Where the Picnic Was
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: III. The Oxen
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: IV. The Master and the Leaves
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: V. Voices From Things Growing in a Churchyard
By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: VI. Exeunt omnes
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 40
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 40: I. Allegro moderato
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 40: II. Andante quieto
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 40: III. Rondo: Adagio – Allegro giocoso
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, op. 31: I. Allegro vigoroso
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, op. 31: II. Adagio ma senza rigore
Concerto for Small Orchestra and Solo Violin
Concerto for Small Orchestra and Solo Violin: I. Allegro
Concerto for Small Orchestra and Solo Violin: II. Molto sereno
Concerto for Small Orchestra and Solo Violin: III. Hornpipe Rondo. Allegro risoluto
Dies Natalis, op. 8
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 1. Summer Schemes
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 10. Proud Songsters
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 2. When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 3. Waiting Both
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 4. The Phantom
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 5. So I Have Fared
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 6. Rollicum-Rorum
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 7. To Lizbie Browne
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 8. The Clock of the Years
Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15: 9. In a Churchyard
Eclogue for Piano and Strings, op. 10
Farewell to Arms, op. 9
Five Bagatelles, op. 23
Five Bagatelles, op. 23: II. Romance. Andante tranquillo - Poco più mosso - Tempo 1
Grand Fantasia and Toccata, op. 38
Grand Fantasia and Toccata, op. 38: 1. Molto grave
Grand Fantasia and Toccata, op. 38: 2. Allegro vigoroso
I Said to Love, op. 19b
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 1. I Need Not Go
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 3. Two Lips
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 4. In Five-Score Summers
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 5. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly
I Said to Love, op. 19b: 6. I Said to Love
In Terra Pax, op. 39
In Years Defaced
In Years Defaced: 1. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
In Years Defaced: 2. When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
In Years Defaced: 3. In Years Defaced
In Years Defaced: 4. Tall Nettles
In Years Defaced: 5. At a Lunar Eclipse
In Years Defaced: 6. Proud Songsters
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: I. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: II. The rainbow comes and goes
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: III. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: IV. Ye blessèd Creatures, I have heard the call
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: V. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: VI. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own
Intimations of Immortality, op. 29: VII. O joy! that in our embers
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18: 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18: 2. Who Is Silvia?
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18: 3. Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18: 4. O Mistress Mine
Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18: 5. It Was a Lover and His Lass
Let us now praise famous men, op. 35
Magnificat, op. 36
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 1. I say 'I'll seek her side'
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 2. Oh fair to see
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 3. As I lay in the early sun
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 4. Only the wanderer
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 5. To Joy
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 6. Harvest
Oh Fair to See, op. 13b: no. 7. Since we loved
Prelude for String Orchestra in F minor, op. 25
Requiem da camera
Requiem da camera: I. Prelude
Requiem da camera: II. Quasi senza misura "How still this quiet cornfield is to-night"
Requiem da camera: III. Con dignità "Only a man harrowing clods"
Requiem da camera: IV. Crotchet = about 66 "We who are left"
Romance for String Orchestra in E-flat major, op. 11
Seven Partsongs, op. 17
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: I. I praise the tender flower
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: II. I have loved flowers that fade
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: III. My spirit sang all day
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: IV. Clear and gentle stream
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: V. Nightingales
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: VI. Haste on, my joys!
Seven Partsongs, op. 17: VII. Wherefore tonight so full of care
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 1. Introduction
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 10. Finale
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 2. Moth
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 3. Nocturne
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 4. The Hunt
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 5. Dance
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 6. Quodlibet
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 7. Soliloquy I
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 8. Soliloquy II
Suite from “Love’s Labours Lost”, op. 28b: 9. Soliloquy III
The Fall of the Leaf, op. 20
Thou didst delight my eyes, op. 32
Three Anthems, op. 27
Three Anthems, op. 27 no. 1: My Lovely One
Three Anthems, op. 27 no. 2: God is gone up
Three Anthems, op. 27 no. 3: Welcome sweet and sacred feast
Three Short Elegies, op. 5
Three Short Elegies, op. 5: I. Life a right shadow is
Three Short Elegies, op. 5: II. This world a hunting is
Three Short Elegies, op. 5: III. This life, which seems so fair
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 1. Let Me Enjoy the Earth
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 2. In Years Defaced
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 3. The Market-Girl
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 4. I Look Into My Glass
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 5. It Never Looks Like Summer Here
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 6. At a Lunar Eclipse
Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a: 7. Life Laughs Onward
To a Poet, op. 13a
To a Poet, op. 13a: I. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
To a Poet, op. 13a: II. On Parent Knees
To a Poet, op. 13a: III. Intrada
To a Poet, op. 13a: IV. The Birthnight
To a Poet, op. 13a: V. June on Castle Hill
To a Poet, op. 13a: VI. Ode on the Rejection of St Cecilia
White-flowering days, op. 37