Lost compositions ordered by date

Shortcuts: • 1890- • 1900- • 1910- • 1920- • 1930- • 1940- • 1960-

c.1892 Canadian boat song [song] author unknown † voice, piano
?1895-96 I shot an arrow [song] Longfellow † voice, piano
Today and tomorrow [song] Gunby Hadath † voice, piano
Wanderer’s night song [song] Goethe trans Morley † voice, piano
[title unknown] [song] Gunby Hadath † voice, piano
?1896 Anthem author unknown † choir
c.1899 Requiem excerpts from New Testament and Hymns Ancient and Modern † bar, chor, orch
?1900-02 Tragic prelude † orch
?1902-03 Pantalon and Columbine Op.2 † later inc in English suite 1 small orch – 9´
?1903-04 Legende Op.4 † orch – 15´
String quartet † movements
1904-06 Hero and Leander Op.8 [symphonic poem] † orch
1905 By the waters of Babylon Op.11 Psalm 137 † rev 1909 bar, SATB chor, orch – 25´
1906-07 [title unknown] [work for cello and piano] † cello, piano
?1906-07 Let God arise Psalm 68 † soli, chor, orch
1906 [title unknown] [song] author unknown prob. Cumberland † tenor, piano
Twilight Op.13d/2 [song] author unknown poss. Longfellow † SATB
Carmilhan Op.14 Longfellow † soli, chor, orch
1907-08 A Fantastic Symphony in E [4 movements] † dismantled orch
1907 Scherzo and slow movement [from A Fantastic Symphony mvts II, III] † orch
1908-09 The soldier’s dream Campbell † orch; or voices, orch
[title unknown] [work for chorus and orchestra] Scott † chor, orch
1912 Choral pieces for female voices and orchestra (or piano) »Go, happy rose« Herrick † SSAA, orch
1913 Pilgrimage to Kevlaar [ballad] Heine trans Todhunter † chor, orch
1914 The maiden and the flower garden [children’s operetta] Cumberland † children's operetta voices, piano
Three dances [from The maiden and the flower garden] † orch
Hie upon hielands [trad. ballad] trad † male voices
Marching along [song] author unknown † male voices
The curate and the mulberry-tree [song] author unknown † partsong
The knight’s leap [song] author unknown † partsong
The sweetest dream [song] author unknown † partsong
Sympathy [song] author unknown † partsong
Will you buy any rope? [song] author unknown † partsong
Love’s remorse [song] author unknown † partsong?
A gypsy song [song] Jonson † SSAA
Robin redbreast [song] author unknown † unison, piano
Red May [military march] † orch
1915 English suite 2 »Night portraits« [6 movements] † orch
Legend † orch
[title unknown] [work for orchestra] † orchestra
1916 Razamoff [symphonic drama] † unfinished orch
Three comedy dances † orch
1918 Two scenas Barber † bar, pno or orch
1919 A wish [song] author unknown † 2 voices, piano
Call for the robin redbreast [song] Webster † voice, piano
Hymn to Diana [song] Jonson † voice, piano
Music, when soft voices die [song] Shelley † voice, piano
On a poet’s lips I slept [song] Shelley † voice, piano
The poet’s dream [song] author unknown † voice, piano
Sonnet: my lute [song] Drummond † voice, piano
1921-25 Tales of olden times [3 preludes] † destroyed by HB small orch
1921 Fanfare from The Grotesques [from The Tigers] † full score lost brass and perc
c.1922-23 Far from thee [song] Taylor † voice, piano
Go, happy rose [song] Herrick † voice, piano
I know, and you! [song] Bowles † voice, piano
A proposal [song] author unknown † voice, piano
Stars of destiny [song] author unknown † voice, piano
The twilight house [song] Bowles † voice, piano
Where shadows flee [song] author unknown † voice, piano
?1920s Overture »Buster Keaton« † unfinished orch
1925 Vaughan Williams: Sancta civitas † vocal score
Mine be a cot beside the hill [song] Rogers † SA, piano
1926 Elgar: unidentified work † piano
?1926 At candlelight [song] Gunby Hadath † voice, piano
Song of betrothal [song] Gunby Hadath † voice, piano
Without you [song] Gunby Hadath † voice, piano
1930s Basil Maine: Te Deum † chor, orch
1930-31 The battle song [symphonic poem] † completed only in sketch brass band
?1933 Prelude author unknown † sop, dble chor
1934 Violin concerto 1 † vln, orch
?1935 [title unknown] [work for organ] † organ
1937-44 Prometheus unbound [lyric drama; 2 acts] Shelley parts 1 and 2 set complete † 25 soli, 4 chors, orch
?1944 Legend vlc/bclar, pno
?1947 Adagio e dolente † fragment vlc, pno
Dierdre of the Sorrows [opera] J. M. Synge † unfinished, destroyed
1964 Symphonic movement unfinished, destroyed orch
1967 Oedipus Coloneus [opera] Sophocles trans Sir George Young † unfinished, prob destroyed