Thomas Dunhill compositions: 1897 - 1946 (list incomplete at present) Opus 1 Opus 2 Opus 3 Opus 4 Opus 5
Suite of Valses (piano) Fantaisie Quintet in Eb (violin/cello/clarinet/horn/piano)
Opus 6 Opus 7 Opus 8 Opus 9 Opus 10
Quintet in F minor
Opus 11 Opus 12 Opus 13 Opus 14 Opus 15
Princess Una, a children’s operetta Valse Fantasia (flute/orchestra) Four Easy Pieces Concert Study in A flat, for piano Tubal Cain, ballad (chorus/orchestra)
Opus 16 Opus 17
Piano Quartet in B minor (piano/violin/viola/cello) 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano: (1) Lament (2) Danse Caprice 3) Souvenir des Montagnes Variations on an Original Theme (piano/cell Comrades (baritone/orchestra) Quintet in C minor (piano/strings)
Opus 18 Opus 19 Opus 20 Opus 21 Opus 22 Opus 23 Opus 24 Opus 25 Opus 26 Opus 27 Opus 28 Opus 29 Opus 30 Opus 31 Opus 32 Opus 33
16 Variations in Eb on an Original Theme, (piano)
Scherzo in F (piano) Two Songs: Sleep Sweet Babe, Infant Joy Four Songs from Vagabondia: (1) The Sea Gypsy (2) A Rover’s Song (3) The Daisies (4) A Hill Song
incl: (2) A Daffodil and a Willow Tree, duet soprano/baritone/piano) The Frolicsome Hours, a musical fantasy in two acts 4 Phantasies, on A,C & G (piano) The Pixies, fairy suite for orchestra The Pixies (piano arrangement) Violin Sonata in D minor The Fairy Staff, incidental music for plays John Gilpin, cantata for treble voices The Wind among the Reeds, song-cycle: To Dectora, The Host of the Air, The Cloths of Heaven, The Fiddler of Dooney A Child’s Garden of Melodies, 7 easy pieces (piano) Capricious Variations on an Old English Tune (cello/orchestra) 2 pieces for Cello and Piano: 1) Alla Menuetto 2) Alla Bourree
Opus 34 Opus 35
Sea Fairies, a cantata for treble voices
Opus 36 Opus 37 Opus 38 Opus 39 Opus 40
Phantasy Trio in E flat major (violin/viola/piano) Seven Easy Pieces (piano) Pieces for organ: (1) Nocturne (2) Festal Prelude The King’s Threshold, incidental music for plays
Opus 41
Four Salon Pieces (piano): 1) In the May Time 2) A Summer Holiday 3) A Remembrance 4) Humoresque Dance Suite, for string orchestra Countryside Ditties, for voice: 1) The Shepherd 2) The Lost Doll 3) Dainty Little Maiden 4) The Haymaker’s Roundelay 5) Sea Dirge Songs of the River, vocal quartet and piano: incl: 5) Clear and Cool Playtime Melodies for Piano: Hornpipe, Solitude, Passepied, Girls and Boys, A Celtic Lullaby
Opus 42 Opus 43 Opus 44 Opus 45 Opus 46 Opus 47 Opus 48 Opus 49 Opus 50
Three Short Pieces, for piano incl: 2) A Sailor Dance, Nocturne in Ab Phantasy in F major (2 violins/viola/cello) Symphony in A minor The Masque of the Shoe, cantata of the nativity Violin Sonata (no.2) in F major (violin/piano)
Opus 51 Opus 52 Opus 53 Opus 53b Opus 54 Opus 55
Easier Piano Pieces - 10 studies
Opus 56
Time and Tune, for piano: (1) March Miniature (2) Intermezzo (3) An Eastern Picture (4) Rigodino (5) Hush-a-bye-Tune Elegiac Variations on an Original Theme White Peacocks White Peacocks, for piano
Opus 57 Opus 58 Opus 58a Opus 59 Opus 59a Opus 60 Opus 60a Opus 61
A Story-Book, 6 easy pieces for piano Fancies: incl: (1) Diaphenia (2) Punchinello (3) Valsette Three Characteristic Pieces, for piano Lyric Thoughts, for piano: (1) A Dream Fairy (2) Elves of the Mist (3) A Northern Song (4) The Arab Girl (5) A Little Romance
The Eyes of Youth, 5 easy pieces for piano The Chiddingfold Suite, for string orchestra The Chiddingfold Suite, for organ 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano: (1) Serenade Basque (2) Silhouette (3) Romance Pastorale (4) Polacaprice
Opus 62 Opus 63 Opus 64 Opus 65 Opus 66 Opus 66a Opus 67 Opus 68 Opus 69 Opus 70
part songs incl: (1) The Wind and the Rain (2) Who is Sylvia? (3) It was a Lover and his Lass (4) Come Away, Death Pleasantries, for 2 violins and viola The Enchanted Garden, opera in 1 act A Town on the Ford, a pageant play, choral The Guildford Suite Three Pieces, for string orchestra with organ: Venite Adoremus, Canticum Fidei, Hosanna incl (1) Lunar Rainbow, for piano Pastime & Good Company, suite for orchestra; also for piano duet
Opus 71 Opus 72 Opus 73 Opus 74 Opus 75
Lyric Phantasy on a Homage Theme In Rural England, suite for string orchestra Tantivy Towers, light opera in 3 acts The Wheel of Progress, 5 books of studies for piano Waltz Suite, for piano duet, incl: (3) Valse Tendre, (4) Valse Bohemienne
Opus 76 Opus 77 Opus 78 Opus 79 Opus 80
Romantic Sketches, for piano duet Happy Families, a comic opera in 3 acts The Blue Rhyme Book Dick Whittington, ballet Dances in Miniature, suite for stringed orchestra
Opus 81 Opus 82 Opus 83 Opus 84
Three Short Pieces, incl: Romance Vectis, light suite for string orchestra
Opus 85 Opus 86 Opus 87 Opus 88 Opus 89 Opus 90 Opus 91 Opus 92 Opus 93 Opus 94
[three pieces] for violin/piano: (1) Romantic Legend (2) Coquette (3) Autumn Evensong The Christmas Rose, cantata for treble voices Gallimaufry, ballet/divertissement for piano 4-Hand Fancies: six piano duets: An April Pastoral (2) Phyllis and Corydon (3) A Gypsy Lullaby (4) By the Sunlit Stream (5) Cowslip Meadow (6) Sligo Fair Alicia (or The Magic Fishbone), operetta for treble voices Trio in Bb, (oboe/horn/bassoon) Something in the City, a comic opera in 3 acts Phantasy Suite, for clarinet/ piano Concertino for two violins/string orchestra Suite, for flute and piano
Opus 95
Cornucopia, miniatures for horn/piano
Opus 96 Opus 97 Opus 98 Opus 99 Opus 100
Lyric Suite, for bassoon/piano Friendship’s Garland, miniatures for oboe/piano Divertimento, for small orchestra Tryptych, 3 impressions, for viola/orchestra May-time, overture
Opus 101
Four Original Pieces, for organ: (1) In Weston’s Yard (2) Eclogue (3) A Pastoral Trio (4) Cantilena Romantica
We welcome information to complete this list. It does not include many songs and smaller pieces written for educational use, and some works published for piano in the home. Dunhill also wrote piano arrangements of many classical works by well-known classical composers, such as Handel, Beethoven, Scarlatti and Poulenc.