Catalogue of works

Compositions

Date First performance Score status

Orchestral works

Ballet Suite in Four Movements
incl. Country Dance & Stately Dance
1925 BBC/Guirne Creith 1928 lost
May Eve 1927 BBC/John Ansell 1928 lost

Rapunzel

1928 Folkstone Festival 1933 lost

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G min
Dedicated to Albert Sammons

1932 - 4 Albert Sammons / Constant Lambert / BBC 1936 extant

Chamber music

Quartet for strings in One Movement

1926 1926 lost

Three Satirical Preludes (piano)

1926 Guirne Creith / Wigmore Hall 1935 lost

* Ballade (piano?)

1927   lost

Fantasie Sextet (piano & wind quintet)

1927 Wigmore Hall 1929 lost

Violin Sonata in B flat
Maestoso - Allegro - Allegretto

1929 -31 Albert Sammons / Guirne Creith BBC 1931 and Wigmore Hall 1933 lost

A Portrait Gallery (piano)
H.A. The Golden Voice
W.W. The Yorkshire Heavyweight
H.H. The Melancholy Scott
P.N.-G.

  Guirne Creith / Wigmore Hall 1934 lost

Vocal music

Tranquillité 1926 lost
Madrigal (SATB)
Words from Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody
1929 - 1930
Boosey’s Modern Festival Series No 440
extant
First Love Song
Words by Hamish Robertson
publ: c1938
Graham Gill; distrib: J&W Chester
extant
† My Ship and I
Words by RL Stevenson
publ: 1956
Boosey’s Modern Festival Series No 95
extant
† The Lamb
Words by William Blake
publ: 1956
Boosey’s Modern Festival Series No 96
extant
† Where Go the Boats (two-part song)
Words by RL Stevenson
publ: 1956
Boosey’s Modern Festival Series No 180
extant

Stage work

 
Ballet ‘Quest for Sita’
Based on ‘Heart of Jade’ by Salvador de Madriaga
1955 -8 Lost

* Ballade is only assumed to be written for piano solo. It is possible that it was an orchestral work

† Composed and published under the name of Guirne Javal

 

 

Books

Written as Guirne van Zuylen

Publisher Date
Gourmet Cooking for Everyone Faber and Faber Hardback 1969
Beethoven + Wegeler: the story of a lifelong friendship WGfF/Westdeutsche Gesellschaft fur Familienkunde (cat no EV 00178) 1970
Eating with Wine Faber and Faber Hardback 1972
Gourmet Cooking for Everyone Faber and Faber

Paperback 1975

Penelope’s Odyssey (autobiographical) Unpublished  
Antoine (story of Anton Bruckner) Unpublished  

 

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