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Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde

January 01, 1970

This is an incomplete list of music based on the works of Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. In classical genres, these include operas, ballets, incidental music, symphonic poems, orchestral suites and single pieces, cantatas, and songs and song cycles. Of more recent times, some have been the subject of musicals and film scores. Some are direct settings of Wilde's words or libretti based on them, and some are wordless settings inspired by his writings.

List of works edit

The works of Oscar Wilde that have been set to music include:

The Ballad of Reading Gaol edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Grant Foster The Ballad of Reading Gaol tenor and piano 2012 premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Andrew Goodwin and Mira Yevtich[1]
Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves song 1989
Jacques Ibert La Ballade de la geôle de Reading ballet 1920 published in a version by Ibert for piano duet in 1924
King Charles Wilde Love song 2012 Off the Loveblood CD, the song contains several verses from the poem in the chorus
Donald Swann The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle song cycle 1991 Swann set certain parts of the Ballad, along with The Harlot's House and other texts by Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare
Arthur Wills The Sacrifice of God choral 1986 4-part choir and organ; words from Psalm 51 and The Ballad of Reading Gaol; composed on the death of the composer's young niece[2]
Henri Zagwijn declamation with music in Dutch

Pete Doherty quotes the stanza beginning with "I never saw a man who looked/with such a wistful eye" in Broken Love Song on his solo album Grace/Wastelands.

Les Ballons edit

Les Ballons (The Balloons) is a short poem, the second of the two Fantaisies Décoratives, the first being Le Panneau (The Panel).

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Tomlinson Griffes Les Ballons song c. 1912 Griffes composed a song to this text in c. 1912, revising it in 1915. It was published in 1986.[3]

The Birthday of the Infanta edit

Short story

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
John Alden Carpenter The Birthday of the Infanta ballet 1919
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Birthday of the Infanta, Op. 115 ballet 1942 premiered New Orleans, 1947; an orchestral suite was produced in 1944
Wolfgang Fortner Die weisse Rose (The White Rose) ballet 1949–50 [4]
Elisabeth Lutyens The Birthday of the Infanta ballet 1932
Miklós Radnai Az infánsznö születésnapja (The Birthday of the Infanta) ballet 1918 premiered Budapest Opera House, 26 April 1918
Franz Schreker Der Geburtstag der Infantin ballet-pantomime 1908 rev. as Spanisches Fest, 1923
Franz Schreker Spanisches Fest (Spanish Festival) ballet-pantomime 1923 revised version of Der Geburtstag der Infantin, 1908
Bernhard Sekles Der Zwerg und die Infantin (The Dwarf and the Infanta), Op. 22 ballet 1913
Alexander von Zemlinsky Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Op. 17 opera 1919–21 libretto by George C. Klaren based on Wilde (although he took many liberties); premiered Neues Theater, Cologne, 28 May 1922, conducted by Otto Klemperer; in 1981 a new production by director Adolf Dresen was staged in Hamburg – this did away with Klaren's textual changes and was presented as Der Geburtstag der Infantin
Otakar Zítek O růzi (On the Rose) ballet 1941–42 Zítek 1894–1955[5]

The Canterville Ghost edit

Short story (1887)

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
George Bassman The Canterville Ghost film score 1944 [2]
Alexander Knaifel The Canterville Ghost opera 1966
Jaroslav Křička Bily pan (The Gentleman in White), Op. 30 opera 1927–29 2 acts, with libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budin; a 3-act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931
Jaroslav Křička Spuk im Schloss, oder Böse Zeiten fur Gespenster opera 1931 3 acts; a revised version of his 2-act 1929 opera Bily pan
Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville television opera 1964 telecast by ZDF, Mainz
Sergei Vasilenko The Garden of Death ("after Oscar Wilde"), Op. 13 symphonic poem 1907–08 Vasilenko's title is sometimes said to have come from one of Wilde's poems, but he wrote no such poem. It comes from a passage in Chapter V of The Canterville Ghost where the character Virginia is speaking with the eponymous ghost and asks it where it sleeps. It talks about a certain garden. She whispers: You mean the Garden of Death, and it answers, Yes, Death.[6] Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he did not meet until 1891, later used The Garden of Death as the title of one of his own sonnets,[7] published in 1899 in the collection "The City of the Soul".[8]
Popular music
  • The Austrian metal band Edenbridge recorded two songs on their 2004 album "Shine;" an instrumental intro track, "The Canterville Prophecy," and the song "The Canterville Ghost."

De Profundis edit

Letter

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Frederic Rzewski De Profundis speaking pianist 1992 The pianist speaks and sings excerpts from Wilde's letter[9]
Larry Sitsky De Profundis. Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculus monodrama c. 1982 Wilde's words arranged into a libretto by Gwen Harwood; for baritone, two string quartets and one percussion player[10]

Endymion edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Joseph Horovitz Endymion solo voice and chorus 1985 soprano and chamber choir[2]

E Tenebris edit

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Erwin Schulhoff E tenebris, Op. 15, No. 3 song 1914 No. 3 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Madonna mia (No. 1) and Requiescat (No. 2).[11]

A Florentine Tragedy edit

Blank verse play. Premiered not in England, but at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, 12 January 1906, in a German translation by Max Meyerfeld. The London premiere was on 10 June 1906.

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Sergei Prokofiev Maddalena, Op. 13 opera 1911–13 1 act; his own libretto, after a blank verse play by Baroness Liven (Magda Gustavovna Liven-Orlova), which was based on Wilde's play; composed 1911, partly orchestrated 1912, revised 1913; never performed in Prokofiev's lifetime, despite some attempts; his widow Lina asked Edward Downes to complete it in 1976; concert reading, Manchester, 22 December 1978, under Downes, for a BBC radio broadcast on 25 March 1979; premiere stage performance Graz Opernhouse, 28 November 1981
Alexander von Zemlinsky Eine florentinische Tragödie, Op. 16 opera 1915–16 trans. Max Meyerfeld; premiered Stuttgart 30 January 1917, conducted by Max von Schillings; it was the fifth and most successful of Zemlinsky's seven completed operas and is among the key works of his oeuvre

La Fuite de la Lune edit

La Fuite de la Lune (The Flight of the Moon) is the second of the two poems in Impressions, the first being Les Silhouettes.

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes La Fuite de la Lune song 1912 Griffes wrote a setting of this poem as No. 1 of his Tone-Images, Op. 3 (No. 2 was also a Wilde setting, Symphony in Yellow; and No. 3 was a poem by W. E. Henley).[3]

The Happy Prince edit

Short story

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Renzo Bossi Il Principe felice, Op. 52 radio opera 1950 1 act; broadcast 11 October 1951, RAI; libretto by Bossi after Wilde
Henry Hadley The Golden Prince, Op. 69 cantata 1914 Soprano, baritone, SSAA chorus, orchestra; libretto by D. Stevens after Wilde; presented New York 1914[12]
Bernard Herrmann The Happy Prince music for a narration 1945 for a recording of the story spoken by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles, with an orchestra conducted by Victor Young
Malcolm Williamson The Happy Prince opera c. 1965 1 act; libretto adapted by the composer
Luis de Arquer The Happy Prince Piano- Music for a Journey c. 2000
Stephen DeCesare The Happy Prince Musical Theatre (published at MTA Publishing) c. 2013 www.mtapublishing.com

The Harlot's House edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Ronald Stevenson The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde chamber 1988 Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion
Donald Swann The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle song cycle 1991 Swann set The Harlot's House, along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare

An Ideal Husband edit

Play

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Arthur Benjamin An Ideal Husband film score 1947 [2]
Edison Denisov An Ideal Husband film score 1980 [13]

The Importance of Being Earnest edit

Play

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Erik Chisholm The Importance of Being Earnest opera 1963
Vivian Ellis Half in Ernest musical 1958 [2]
Benjamin Frankel The Importance of Being Earnest film score 1952
Lee Pockriss, Anne Croswell Ernest in Love musical 1960
Gerald Barry The Importance of Being Earnest opera 2011[14]

Impression du matin edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes Impression du matin song 1915 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Le Jardin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.[3]

Impression: Le Réveillon edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes Le Réveillon song 1914 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Le Jardin, and Impression du matin). Griffes altered the last line of the poem, changing the word "streaked" to "flushed." Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.[3]

Le Jardin edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes Le Jardin song 1915 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were La Mer, Impression du matin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.[3]

Lady Windermere's Fan edit

Play

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Noël Coward After the Ball play with music 1954 play adapted by Coward, who also wrote the music[2]

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime edit

Short story

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Geoffrey Bush Lord Arthur Savile's Crime opera 1972 premiered London, Guildhall School of Music, 5 December 1972
Edwin Carr Lord Arthur Savile's Crime opera 1991 1 act, 8 scenes
Alexandre Tansman Flesh and Fantasy film score 1943 only the 2nd part of the 3-part film is based on Wilde's story[2]

Madonna mia edit

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Erwin Schulhoff Madonna mia, Op. 15, No. 1 song 1914 No. 1 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Requiescat (No. 2) and E tenebris (No. 3)[11]

La Mer edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes La Mer song 1916 Griffes first sketched La Mer on 29 October 1912. After its publication was rejected by Schirmers, he wrote an entirely new setting in August 1916. It was included in his Four Impressions, all settings of Wilde poems (the other three were Le Jardin, Impression du matin, and Impression: Le Réveillon, which he set as Le Réveillon). Four Impressions was not published until c. 1970.[3]

The Nightingale and the Rose edit

Story

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Renzo Bossi Rosa rossa (Red Rose), Op. 18 opera 1910 also seen as L'Usinguolo e la rosa (The Nightingale and the Rose); one act; Bossi described it as a "poemetto lirico"; staged Turin 1938
Hooper Brewster-Jones The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1927 only an orchestral suite survives[12]
Elena Firsova The Nightingale and the Rose, Op. 46 chamber opera 1990–91 to her own English libretto based partly on Wilde's story, and partly on poetry by Christina Rossetti[12]
Harold Fraser-Simson The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1927 [12]
Margaret Garwood The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1973 [12]
Henry Hadley The Nightingale and the Rose, Op. 54 cantata 1911 soprano solo, SSAA chorus, orchestra; libretto by E. W. Grant; performed New York 1911[12]
Philip Hagemann The Nightingale and the Rose opera 2003 [15]
Roger Hannay The Nightingale and the Rose stage and mixed media 1986 [12]
Janis Kalnins The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1938 [12]
Jan Müller-Wieland The Nightingale and the Rose chamber opera 1996 1 act; 7 singers, percussion (3 gongs, 3 tamtams, marimba, vibraphone), cello or piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass; staged Darmstadt 1996[12]
Bright Sheng The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 2007
Jonathan Rutherford The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1966 [12]
Friedrich Voss The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1961 staged Oberhausen 1962[12]
Saltatio Mortis Nachtigall und Rose Medieval metal 2011 [16]
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh The Nightingale & The Rose Jazz composition 2006 [17]

The Picture of Dorian Gray edit

Novel (1890)

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Boris Arapov The Picture of Dorian Gray ballet 1971
Lowell Liebermann The Picture of Dorian Gray opera 1996 12 scenes; libretto by Liebermann based on the novel; commissioned by Opera Monte Carlo; premiered Salle Garnier, Monaco 8 May 1996; dedicated to Princess Caroline of Monaco; US premiere, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5 February 1999
W. Arundel Orchard The Picture of Dorian Gray opera 3 acts; performed at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music 11 September 2019; unpublished
Hans Schaeuble Dorian Gray, Op. 32 opera 1947–48
Herbert Stothart The Picture of Dorian Gray film score 1945
Stephen DeCesare The Picture of Dorian Gray musical theatre 2005 Published at MTA Publishing - mtapublishing.com
Randy Bowser Dorian - the Remarkable Mister Gray musical theatre 2008 Premiered in Salem, Oregon, in 2008; produced in Russian in Moscow, at the Stas Namin Theatre.[18][19]

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Requiescat edit

Poem (1874), included in his collection Rosa Mystica. Requiescat was written at Avignon seven years after his sister, Isola, died (23 February 1867), less than two months before her 10th birthday. Wilde was 12 at the time of her death.[11]

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
George Butterworth Requiescat song 1911
Luigi Dallapiccola Requiescat choral 1957–58 Chorus and orchestra; the text includes Wilde's poem as well as words taken from the Gospel of Matthew and James Joyce[11]
Otto Luening Requiscat song 1917 [11]
George Frederick McKay Requiescat song 1932 [11]
Ned Rorem Requiescat vocal 1997 Set for SATB and piano; Evidence of Things Not Seen is a cycle of 36 songs to texts by 24 authors, and includes solos, duos, trios and quartets; Requiescat is No. 8 of the "Middles" section of the cycle; the other songs include texts by W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Colette, Stephen Crane, Paul Goodman, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Theodore Roethke, John Waldman, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth and others; premiered Carnegie Hall, January 1998[20]
Erwin Schulhoff Requiescat, Op. 15, No. 2 song 1914 Set to German words (Still, dass sie es nicht hört ..); No. 2 of Rosa Mystica, three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano, Op. 15 (WV 33). The other two songs are Madonna mia (No. 1) and E tenebris (No. 3)[11]
David Van Vactor Requiescat song 1932 [21]
Raymond Wilding-White Requiescat [20]

La Sainte Courtisane edit

Play (fragment; 1893)

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny La sainte courtisane musical scene 1930 4 speakers and chamber orchestra; premiered Dessau, 24 October 1930

Salome edit

Play

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Henry Hadley Salome, Op. 55 symphonic poem 1905 this was written after Hadley had seen a production of Oscar Wilde's play, and was a favourite among his own compositions[22]
Richard Strauss Salome, Op. 54 opera 1905 trans. Hedwig Lachmann; premiered Dresden 1905. This opera is by far the best known musical adaptation of a work of Oscar Wilde.
Antoine Mariotte Salomé opera 1905 premiered 1908; he was involved in a debate with Richard Strauss to prove that his music was written earlier than Strauss's version, also written in 1905

The Selfish Giant edit

Short story

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Eric Coates The Selfish Giant – A Phantasy orchestra 1925 [23]
Dan Goeller The Selfish Giant orchestra 2011 Official Website[24] Children's book/CD, with illustrations by Chris Beatrice[25]
Jenő Hubay Az önző óriás (Ger. Der selbstsüchtige Riese;
Eng. The Selfish Giant), Op. 124 		opera 1934 1 act; libretto by László Márkus and Jenő Mohácsi after the story by Wilde
Graeme Koehne The Selfish Giant ballet 1983 choreography by Graeme Murphy[26]
Jim and Dee Patton The Selfish Giant Rock opera 2008 Official Website[27] Performed by Bongo And the Point[28]
Stephen DeCesare The Selfish Giant Musical theatre 2010 Published by MTA Publishing – www.mtapublishing.com[29]

Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Malcolm Williamson Sonnet: On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel chorus a cappella c. 1969 [30]

The Sphinx edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Granville Bantock The Sphinx song cycle 1941 for baritone or contralto with orchestra
Alexander Mosolov The Sphinx cantata 1925 set to a Russian translation of Wilde's poem as a graduation exercise

Symphony in Yellow edit

Poem

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Charles Griffes Symphony in Yellow song 1912 Griffes wrote a setting of this in c. 1912, as No. 2 of his Tone-Images, Op. 3 (No. 1 was also a Wilde setting, La Fuite de la Lune; and No. 3 was a poem by W. E. Henley).[3]

Poisoned Youth edit

Song

Composer Title Genre Year Notes
England (band): Martin Henderson, Frank Holland, Jode Leigh, Robert Webb Poisoned Youth Progressive Rock 1977 From the album "Garden Shed"

Unclassified edit

Composer Title Genre Date Notes
Pierre Capdevielle Deux Apologues d'Oscar Wilde
(Two Moral Stories of Oscar Wilde) 		recitation for voice and orchestra 1930–32
Francis George Scott Idyll song unpublished

References edit

  1. ^ "Backstage with Andrew Goodwin", Limelight, February 2013, p. 24
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Philip Scowcroft, Music inspired by Oscar Wilde
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Mad, Scarlet Music
  4. ^ Answers.com
  5. ^ Opera Composers: Z
  6. ^ Text of The Canterville Ghost
  7. ^ Text of Lord Alfred Douglas's poem The Garden of Death
  8. ^ UCLA Library Internet Archive
  9. ^ Aworks
  10. ^ State Library of Queensland
  11. ^ a b c d e f g The Oscholars: Otto Luening
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Oscholars: Henry Hadley
  13. ^ Шульгин, Дмитрий (6 January 2017). Признание Эдисона Денисова. По материалам бесед. Litres. ISBN 9785457910713.
  14. ^ Toronyi-Lalic, Igor (27 April 2012). "The Importance of Being Earnest, Barbican Hall". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
  15. ^ Stanford University Libraries (2019). "Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres - Philip Hagemann", accessed 14 April 2019.
  16. ^ Saltatio Mortis – Sturm auf Paradies
  17. ^ "Listen Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - the Nightingale & the Rose online".
  18. ^ Thomas Patterson (21 April 2008). "'Dorian' a lavish production with a demented air". Rbowser.tripod.com. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  19. ^ "Новости Московского театра музыки и драмы имени Стаса Намина1". Stasnamintheatre.ru. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  20. ^ a b Ray Wilding-White
  21. ^ The Oscholars: David Van Vactor
  22. ^ Amazon.com
  23. ^ MusicWeb International
  24. ^ . Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  25. ^ . Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  26. ^ Sydney Dance Company: Complete Repertoire 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ http://theselfishgiant.com/
  28. ^ http://bongoandthepoint.com
  29. ^ . Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  30. ^ State Library of Queensland

Sources edit

  • Eric Blom ed., Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954

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of works 1 1 The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1 2 Les Ballons 1 3 The Birthday of the Infanta 1 4 The Canterville Ghost 1 5 De Profundis 1 6 Endymion 1 7 E Tenebris 1 8 A Florentine Tragedy 1 9 La Fuite de la Lune 1 10 The Happy Prince 1 11 The Harlot s House 1 12 An Ideal Husband 1 13 The Importance of Being Earnest 1 14 Impression du matin 1 15 Impression Le Reveillon 1 16 Le Jardin 1 17 Lady Windermere s Fan 1 18 Lord Arthur Savile s Crime 1 19 Madonna mia 1 20 La Mer 1 21 The Nightingale and the Rose 1 22 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1 23 Requiescat 1 24 La Sainte Courtisane 1 25 Salome 1 26 The Selfish Giant 1 27 Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel 1 28 The Sphinx 1 29 Symphony in Yellow 1 30 Poisoned Youth 1 31 Unclassified 2 References 3 SourcesList of works editThe works of Oscar Wilde that have been set to music include The Ballad of Reading Gaol edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Grant Foster The Ballad of Reading Gaol tenor and piano 2012 premiered in Saint Petersburg Russia by Andrew Goodwin and Mira Yevtich 1 Gavin Friday Maurice Seezer Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves song 1989 Jacques Ibert La Ballade de la geole de Reading ballet 1920 published in a version by Ibert for piano duet in 1924 King Charles Wilde Love song 2012 Off the Loveblood CD the song contains several verses from the poem in the chorus Donald Swann The Poetic Image A Victorian Song Cycle song cycle 1991 Swann set certain parts of the Ballad along with The Harlot s House and other texts by Tennyson Christina Rossetti and John Clare Arthur Wills The Sacrifice of God choral 1986 4 part choir and organ words from Psalm 51 and The Ballad of Reading Gaol composed on the death of the composer s young niece 2 Henri Zagwijn declamation with music in Dutch Pete Doherty quotes the stanza beginning with I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye in Broken Love Song on his solo album Grace Wastelands Les Ballons edit Les Ballons The Balloons is a short poem the second of the two Fantaisies Decoratives the first being Le Panneau The Panel Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Tomlinson Griffes Les Ballons song c 1912 Griffes composed a song to this text in c 1912 revising it in 1915 It was published in 1986 3 The Birthday of the Infanta edit Short story Composer Title Genre Date Notes John Alden Carpenter The Birthday of the Infanta ballet 1919 Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco The Birthday of the Infanta Op 115 ballet 1942 premiered New Orleans 1947 an orchestral suite was produced in 1944 Wolfgang Fortner Die weisse Rose The White Rose ballet 1949 50 4 Elisabeth Lutyens The Birthday of the Infanta ballet 1932 Miklos Radnai Az infanszno szuletesnapja The Birthday of the Infanta ballet 1918 premiered Budapest Opera House 26 April 1918 Franz Schreker Der Geburtstag der Infantin ballet pantomime 1908 rev as Spanisches Fest 1923 Franz Schreker Spanisches Fest Spanish Festival ballet pantomime 1923 revised version of Der Geburtstag der Infantin 1908 Bernhard Sekles Der Zwerg und die Infantin The Dwarf and the Infanta Op 22 ballet 1913 Alexander von Zemlinsky Der Zwerg The Dwarf Op 17 opera 1919 21 libretto by George C Klaren based on Wilde although he took many liberties premiered Neues Theater Cologne 28 May 1922 conducted by Otto Klemperer in 1981 a new production by director Adolf Dresen was staged in Hamburg this did away with Klaren s textual changes and was presented as Der Geburtstag der Infantin Otakar Zitek O ruzi On the Rose ballet 1941 42 Zitek 1894 1955 5 The Canterville Ghost edit Short story 1887 Composer Title Genre Date Notes George Bassman The Canterville Ghost film score 1944 2 Alexander Knaifel The Canterville Ghost opera 1966 Jaroslav Kricka Bily pan The Gentleman in White Op 30 opera 1927 29 2 acts with libretto by Jan Lowenbach Budin a 3 act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931 Jaroslav Kricka Spuk im Schloss oder Bose Zeiten fur Gespenster opera 1931 3 acts a revised version of his 2 act 1929 opera Bily pan Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville television opera 1964 telecast by ZDF Mainz Sergei Vasilenko The Garden of Death after Oscar Wilde Op 13 symphonic poem 1907 08 Vasilenko s title is sometimes said to have come from one of Wilde s poems but he wrote no such poem It comes from a passage in Chapter V of The Canterville Ghost where the character Virginia is speaking with the eponymous ghost and asks it where it sleeps It talks about a certain garden She whispers You mean the Garden of Death and it answers Yes Death 6 Wilde s lover Lord Alfred Douglas whom he did not meet until 1891 later used The Garden of Death as the title of one of his own sonnets 7 published in 1899 in the collection The City of the Soul 8 Popular music The Austrian metal band Edenbridge recorded two songs on their 2004 album Shine an instrumental intro track The Canterville Prophecy and the song The Canterville Ghost De Profundis edit Letter Composer Title Genre Date Notes Frederic Rzewski De Profundis speaking pianist 1992 The pianist speaks and sings excerpts from Wilde s letter 9 Larry Sitsky De Profundis Epistola in Carcere et Vinculus monodrama c 1982 Wilde s words arranged into a libretto by Gwen Harwood for baritone two string quartets and one percussion player 10 Endymion edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Joseph Horovitz Endymion solo voice and chorus 1985 soprano and chamber choir 2 E Tenebris edit Poem Included in his collection Rosa Mystica Composer Title Genre Date Notes Erwin Schulhoff E tenebris Op 15 No 3 song 1914 No 3 of Rosa Mystica three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano Op 15 WV 33 The other two songs are Madonna mia No 1 and Requiescat No 2 11 A Florentine Tragedy edit Blank verse play Premiered not in England but at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin 12 January 1906 in a German translation by Max Meyerfeld The London premiere was on 10 June 1906 Composer Title Genre Date Notes Sergei Prokofiev Maddalena Op 13 opera 1911 13 1 act his own libretto after a blank verse play by Baroness Liven Magda Gustavovna Liven Orlova which was based on Wilde s play composed 1911 partly orchestrated 1912 revised 1913 never performed in Prokofiev s lifetime despite some attempts his widow Lina asked Edward Downes to complete it in 1976 concert reading Manchester 22 December 1978 under Downes for a BBC radio broadcast on 25 March 1979 premiere stage performance Graz Opernhouse 28 November 1981 Alexander von Zemlinsky Eine florentinische Tragodie Op 16 opera 1915 16 trans Max Meyerfeld premiered Stuttgart 30 January 1917 conducted by Max von Schillings it was the fifth and most successful of Zemlinsky s seven completed operas and is among the key works of his oeuvre La Fuite de la Lune edit La Fuite de la Lune The Flight of the Moon is the second of the two poems in Impressions the first being Les Silhouettes Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes La Fuite de la Lune song 1912 Griffes wrote a setting of this poem as No 1 of his Tone Images Op 3 No 2 was also a Wilde setting Symphony in Yellow and No 3 was a poem by W E Henley 3 The Happy Prince edit Short story Composer Title Genre Date Notes Renzo Bossi Il Principe felice Op 52 radio opera 1950 1 act broadcast 11 October 1951 RAI libretto by Bossi after Wilde Henry Hadley The Golden Prince Op 69 cantata 1914 Soprano baritone SSAA chorus orchestra libretto by D Stevens after Wilde presented New York 1914 12 Bernard Herrmann The Happy Prince music for a narration 1945 for a recording of the story spoken by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles with an orchestra conducted by Victor Young Malcolm Williamson The Happy Prince opera c 1965 1 act libretto adapted by the composer Luis de Arquer The Happy Prince Piano Music for a Journey c 2000 Stephen DeCesare The Happy Prince Musical Theatre published at MTA Publishing c 2013 www mtapublishing com The Harlot s House edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Ronald Stevenson The Harlot s House Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde chamber 1988 Free bass accordion timpani and percussion Donald Swann The Poetic Image A Victorian Song Cycle song cycle 1991 Swann set The Harlot s House along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred Lord Tennyson Christina Rossetti and John Clare An Ideal Husband edit Play Composer Title Genre Date Notes Arthur Benjamin An Ideal Husband film score 1947 2 Edison Denisov An Ideal Husband film score 1980 13 The Importance of Being Earnest edit Play Composer Title Genre Date Notes Erik Chisholm The Importance of Being Earnest opera 1963 Vivian Ellis Half in Ernest musical 1958 2 Benjamin Frankel The Importance of Being Earnest film score 1952 Lee Pockriss Anne Croswell Ernest in Love musical 1960 Gerald Barry The Importance of Being Earnest opera 2011 14 Impression du matin edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes Impression du matin song 1915 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions all settings of Wilde poems the other three were La Mer Le Jardin and Impression Le Reveillon which he set as Le Reveillon Four Impressions was not published until c 1970 3 Impression Le Reveillon edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes Le Reveillon song 1914 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions all settings of Wilde poems the other three were La Mer Le Jardin and Impression du matin Griffes altered the last line of the poem changing the word streaked to flushed Four Impressions was not published until c 1970 3 Le Jardin edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes Le Jardin song 1915 Griffes included this song in his Four Impressions all settings of Wilde poems the other three were La Mer Impression du matin and Impression Le Reveillon which he set as Le Reveillon Four Impressions was not published until c 1970 3 Lady Windermere s Fan edit Play Composer Title Genre Date Notes Noel Coward After the Ball play with music 1954 play adapted by Coward who also wrote the music 2 Lord Arthur Savile s Crime edit Short story Composer Title Genre Date Notes Geoffrey Bush Lord Arthur Savile s Crime opera 1972 premiered London Guildhall School of Music 5 December 1972 Edwin Carr Lord Arthur Savile s Crime opera 1991 1 act 8 scenes Alexandre Tansman Flesh and Fantasy film score 1943 only the 2nd part of the 3 part film is based on Wilde s story 2 Madonna mia edit Poem Included in his collection Rosa Mystica Composer Title Genre Date Notes Erwin Schulhoff Madonna mia Op 15 No 1 song 1914 No 1 of Rosa Mystica three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano Op 15 WV 33 The other two songs are Requiescat No 2 and E tenebris No 3 11 La Mer edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes La Mer song 1916 Griffes first sketched La Mer on 29 October 1912 After its publication was rejected by Schirmers he wrote an entirely new setting in August 1916 It was included in his Four Impressions all settings of Wilde poems the other three were Le Jardin Impression du matin and Impression Le Reveillon which he set as Le Reveillon Four Impressions was not published until c 1970 3 The Nightingale and the Rose edit Story Composer Title Genre Date Notes Renzo Bossi Rosa rossa Red Rose Op 18 opera 1910 also seen as L Usinguolo e la rosa The Nightingale and the Rose one act Bossi described it as a poemetto lirico staged Turin 1938 Hooper Brewster Jones The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1927 only an orchestral suite survives 12 Elena Firsova The Nightingale and the Rose Op 46 chamber opera 1990 91 to her own English libretto based partly on Wilde s story and partly on poetry by Christina Rossetti 12 Harold Fraser Simson The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1927 12 Margaret Garwood The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1973 12 Henry Hadley The Nightingale and the Rose Op 54 cantata 1911 soprano solo SSAA chorus orchestra libretto by E W Grant performed New York 1911 12 Philip Hagemann The Nightingale and the Rose opera 2003 15 Roger Hannay The Nightingale and the Rose stage and mixed media 1986 12 Janis Kalnins The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1938 12 Jan Muller Wieland The Nightingale and the Rose chamber opera 1996 1 act 7 singers percussion 3 gongs 3 tamtams marimba vibraphone cello or piano 2 violins viola cello double bass staged Darmstadt 1996 12 Bright Sheng The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 2007 Jonathan Rutherford The Nightingale and the Rose opera 1966 12 Friedrich Voss The Nightingale and the Rose ballet 1961 staged Oberhausen 1962 12 Saltatio Mortis Nachtigall und Rose Medieval metal 2011 16 Aziza Mustafa Zadeh The Nightingale amp The Rose Jazz composition 2006 17 The Picture of Dorian Gray edit Novel 1890 Composer Title Genre Date Notes Boris Arapov The Picture of Dorian Gray ballet 1971 Lowell Liebermann The Picture of Dorian Gray opera 1996 12 scenes libretto by Liebermann based on the novel commissioned by Opera Monte Carlo premiered Salle Garnier Monaco 8 May 1996 dedicated to Princess Caroline of Monaco US premiere Florentine Opera Milwaukee Wisconsin 5 February 1999 W Arundel Orchard The Picture of Dorian Gray opera 3 acts performed at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music 11 September 2019 unpublished Hans Schaeuble Dorian Gray Op 32 opera 1947 48 Herbert Stothart The Picture of Dorian Gray film score 1945 Stephen DeCesare The Picture of Dorian Gray musical theatre 2005 Published at MTA Publishing mtapublishing com Randy Bowser Dorian the Remarkable Mister Gray musical theatre 2008 Premiered in Salem Oregon in 2008 produced in Russian in Moscow at the Stas Namin Theatre 18 19 Popular music Post punk band Television Personalities recorded a song titled A Picture of Dorian Gray for their 1981 album And Don t the Kids Just Love It The song was covered by The Futureheads on their 2003 EP 1 2 3 Nul Prog band Nirvana UK released a 1981 single titled The Picture of Dorian Gray Tears And Rain by popstar James Blunt features the line Hides my true shape like Dorian Gray from Back to Bedlam 2003 The Libertines song Narcissist from their 2004 album The Libertines includes the line in the chorus Wouldn t it be nice to be Dorian Gray just for a day Demons amp Wizards recorded a song entitled Dorian on their 2005 album Touched by the Crimson King Kill Hannah s song Scream from their 2006 album Until There s Nothing Left of Us includes the line Enacting Sybil Vane in some tragic play Styx s song Sing for the Day references the titular character with the line ageless and timeless as Dorian Gray William Control titled a track on their 2010 album Noir after the protagonist Ballad of Dorian Gray a song by Michael Peter Smith The Picture of Dorian Gray a song by Cherry Five Portrait a song by Alt J Vincent a song by Don McLean references Wilde s story The Nightingale and the Rose with the line A silver thorn a bloody rose Gothic metal band Pyogenesis recorded a song titled I Have Seen My Soul based on the novel for their 2017 album A Kingdom to Disappear Doom metal band Pagan Altar recorded a song titled The Portrait Of Dorian Gray inspired by the novel for their album A Room of Shadows in 2017 Requiescat edit Poem 1874 included in his collection Rosa Mystica Requiescat was written at Avignon seven years after his sister Isola died 23 February 1867 less than two months before her 10th birthday Wilde was 12 at the time of her death 11 Composer Title Genre Date Notes George Butterworth Requiescat song 1911 Luigi Dallapiccola Requiescat choral 1957 58 Chorus and orchestra the text includes Wilde s poem as well as words taken from the Gospel of Matthew and James Joyce 11 Otto Luening Requiscat song 1917 11 George Frederick McKay Requiescat song 1932 11 Ned Rorem Requiescat vocal 1997 Set for SATB and piano Evidence of Things Not Seen is a cycle of 36 songs to texts by 24 authors and includes solos duos trios and quartets Requiescat is No 8 of the Middles section of the cycle the other songs include texts by W H Auden Charles Baudelaire Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Colette Stephen Crane Paul Goodman A E Housman Langston Hughes Rudyard Kipling Edna St Vincent Millay Theodore Roethke John Waldman Walt Whitman William Wordsworth and others premiered Carnegie Hall January 1998 20 Erwin Schulhoff Requiescat Op 15 No 2 song 1914 Set to German words Still dass sie es nicht hort No 2 of Rosa Mystica three songs to Wilde texts for alto voice and piano Op 15 WV 33 The other two songs are Madonna mia No 1 and E tenebris No 3 11 David Van Vactor Requiescat song 1932 21 Raymond Wilding White Requiescat 20 La Sainte Courtisane edit Play fragment 1893 Composer Title Genre Date Notes Rudolf Wagner Regeny La sainte courtisane musical scene 1930 4 speakers and chamber orchestra premiered Dessau 24 October 1930 Salome edit Play Composer Title Genre Date Notes Henry Hadley Salome Op 55 symphonic poem 1905 this was written after Hadley had seen a production of Oscar Wilde s play and was a favourite among his own compositions 22 Richard Strauss Salome Op 54 opera 1905 trans Hedwig Lachmann premiered Dresden 1905 This opera is by far the best known musical adaptation of a work of Oscar Wilde Antoine Mariotte Salome opera 1905 premiered 1908 he was involved in a debate with Richard Strauss to prove that his music was written earlier than Strauss s version also written in 1905 The Selfish Giant edit Short story Composer Title Genre Date Notes Eric Coates The Selfish Giant A Phantasy orchestra 1925 23 Dan Goeller The Selfish Giant orchestra 2011 Official Website 24 Children s book CD with illustrations by Chris Beatrice 25 Jeno Hubay Az onzo orias Ger Der selbstsuchtige Riese Eng The Selfish Giant Op 124 opera 1934 1 act libretto by Laszlo Markus and Jeno Mohacsi after the story by Wilde Graeme Koehne The Selfish Giant ballet 1983 choreography by Graeme Murphy 26 Jim and Dee Patton The Selfish Giant Rock opera 2008 Official Website 27 Performed by Bongo And the Point 28 Stephen DeCesare The Selfish Giant Musical theatre 2010 Published by MTA Publishing www mtapublishing com 29 Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Malcolm Williamson Sonnet On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel chorus a cappella c 1969 30 The Sphinx edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Granville Bantock The Sphinx song cycle 1941 for baritone or contralto with orchestra Alexander Mosolov The Sphinx cantata 1925 set to a Russian translation of Wilde s poem as a graduation exercise Symphony in Yellow edit Poem Composer Title Genre Date Notes Charles Griffes Symphony in Yellow song 1912 Griffes wrote a setting of this in c 1912 as No 2 of his Tone Images Op 3 No 1 was also a Wilde setting La Fuite de la Lune and No 3 was a poem by W E Henley 3 Poisoned Youth edit Song Composer Title Genre Year Notes England band Martin Henderson Frank Holland Jode Leigh Robert Webb Poisoned Youth Progressive Rock 1977 From the album Garden Shed Unclassified edit Composer Title Genre Date Notes Pierre 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