Michael Finnissy

British composer and pianist

Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".

Although he rejects the label, he is often regarded as one of the foremost composers of the New Complexity movement.

Read more about this composer on Wikipedia.

Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • 3 Dukes Went A-Riding
  • Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2
  • Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 1
  • Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 2
  • Autumnall
  • Banumbirr
  • Bright Future Ignoring Dark Past
  • Christening
  • Delal
  • Descriptive Jottings of London
  • English Country-Tunes
  • English Country-Tunes: Come Beat the Drums and Sound the Fifes
  • English Country-Tunes: Green Meadows
  • English Country-Tunes: I'll Give My Love a Garland
  • English Country-Tunes: Lies and Marvels
  • English Country-Tunes: May and December
  • English Country-Tunes: Midsummer Morn
  • English Country-Tunes: My Bonny Boy
  • English Country-Tunes: The Seeds of Love
  • Favourite Poets
  • Folklore II
  • Freighttrain Bruise
  • How Dear to Me
  • Janne
  • Joh.Seb.Bach
  • John the Baptist
  • Kemp's Morris
  • Lylyly li
  • Multiple Forms of Constraint
  • My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
  • Nobody’s Jig
  • Offshore
  • Piano Concerto no. 2
  • Piano Concerto no. 3
  • Plain Harmony I
  • Plain Harmony II
  • Plain Harmony III
  • Polskie tance, op. 32
  • Polskie tance, op. 32: No. 1. Kujawiak-Kozak
  • Polskie tance, op. 32: No. 2, Kozak-Drobny
  • Polskie tance, op. 32: No. 3. Kujawiak
  • Polskie tance, op. 32: No. 4. Zbojnicki
  • Red Earth
  • Reels
  • Requiem in D minor, K. 626
  • Requièm Mass in D minor, K. 626: Sequenz: Lacrimosa
  • Second String Quartet
  • Sehnsucht
  • Sepevi
  • Short but...
  • Stabant autem iuxta crucem
  • Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836
  • String Quartet
  • Svatovac
  • Telling
  • Terekkeme
  • Third String Quartet
  • Uzundara, op. 105
  • Vieux Noël, op. 59 no. 2
  • Willow Willow