List of works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society has commissioned new works to composers since 1813,[1] and among the pieces commissioned are Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No.4 and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.8.[1]

This is a list of compositions commissioned by the RPS or dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society (London) since 1813.[2]

1814 L Berger: Overture Cherubini: Overture 1815 Cherubini: Overture in G Cherubini: Symphony in D Ries: Symphony 1816 Ries: Bardic Overture Klengel: Piano Quintet Potter: Overture Ries: Symphony No.3 in Eb Müller: Clarinet Quintet J F Burrowes: Overture Cherubini: Cantata La Primavera Clementi: Symphony Potter: Septet for piano, flute and strings Fémy: Symphony in E minor 1817 Burghersh: Symphony 1819 Ries: Scena Sia Luminosa 1821 Spohr: Overture in F Bochsa: Septet for harp, wind and double bass 1825 Beethoven: Symphony No.9 1832 Neukomm: Septet (Fantasia Concertante) for wind and double bass Onslow Symphony 1833 Cramer: Piano Quintet in Bb Moscheles: Grand Septet for piano, strings, clarinet and horn Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A (Italian) Hummel: Piano Concerto in F Neukomm: Fantasia Dramatica on Paradise Lost Potter: Symphony in A minor Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture in C 1834 H R Bishop: Cantata The Seventh Day Vincent Novello: Dramatic Cantata Rosalba Horsley: Motet Exultabo Te Mendelssohn: Concert Aria Infelice (op.94) 1835 Herz: Piano Concerto in D minor 1836 Bishop: Cantata The Departure from Paradise 1848 Spohr: Symphony No.8 in G major 1862 Bennett: Overture Paradise and the Peri 1864 Bennett: Symphony in G minor 1867 Sullivan: Overture Marmion 1868 Barnett: Overture symphonique Benedict: Overture La selva incantata 1872 Bennett: Prelude Ajax 1875 Macfarren: Idyll in Memory of Sterndale Bennett 1881 Cowen: Sinfonietta in A minor 1883 King Prize: Overture Among the Pines 1885 [Ernst Dramatic Overture] Wingham: Serenade for Orchestra 1886 Gadsby: Scene The Forest of Arden Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 in C "Organ" Moszkowski: Suite for orchestra 1887 Corder: Suite Roumanian Randegger: Scena Prayer of Nature 1895 Parry: Symphony No.3 in F (revised) 1896 Dvořák: Five Biblical Songs with orchestra 1898 MacCunn: Ballet music from Diarmid 1910 Luigi Mancinelli: Romantic Overture 1917 German: Song Have you news of my boy Jack? 1950 Rawsthorne: Symphony 1958 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9

1963 Walton: Variations on a Theme of Hindemith 1966 Hoddinott: Variants for Orchestra 1969 Musgrave: Clarinet Concerto 1970 Lutosławski: Cello Concerto 1971 Joubert: Symphony No.2 1975 Cooke: Symphony No.4 1982 Simpson: Symphony No.8 1985 Musgrave and Bennett: Moving into Aquarius 1987 Andrzej Panufnik: Symphony No.9 Burgon: Song cycle Title Divine 1989 Arnold: Cello Concerto 1992 Saxton: Paraphrase on Mozart's Idomeneo 2000 Jonathan Cole: Ouroboros 2001 Luke Bedford: Five Abstracts, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Judith Bingham: Fifty Shades of GreenZ Burgon: Heavenly Things Simon Holt: Two Movements for String Quartet 2002 Brett Dean Huntington: Eulogy John Woolrich: Darker Still David Gorton: Oblique Prayers, winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2003 Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs before Sleep Elliott Carter: Of Rewaking Jonathan Dove: Run to the Edge Detlev Glanert: Three Pieces David Lang: Breathless John Hails: Lovesongs, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Leon Kirchner: Interlude II Simon Mawhinney: Darby's Loanin, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Julian Phillips: Four Characters Eric Tanguy: Quattro Intermezzi Karin Rehnqvist: Beginning Augusta Read Thomas: Pulsar 2004 Brian Herrington: Symphonia for the London Sinfonietta, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Phillip Neil Martin: An Outburst of Time for the Cheltenham Festival, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Dai Fujikura: Be 2005[3] Dai Fujikura: Another Place for the Cheltenham Festival, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Lyell Cresswell: Ara Kopikopiko, winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2006[3] Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen, Op.49 Emily Hall: My Dirty Little Heart, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Christopher Mayo: Passed the Last River, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Anders Nordentoft: Parasto Mark-Anthony Turnage: Two Baudelaire Songs Django Bates: Alison in Space Ian Wilson: Red Over Black Huw Watkins: Partita 2007[3] Eleanor Alberga: Succubus Moon Dominick Argento: Three Sonnets of Petrarch Deirdre Gribbin: Calum's Light Philippe Hersant: In Black Mark Bowden, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Charlie Piper, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Stuart MacRae: Unity Joseph Phibbs: Flex Julian Philips: Four Characters 2008[3] Cheryl Frances-Hoad: My Day in Hell, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, nor Stone... Dominic Muldowney: Tsunami Gwilym Simcock: Contours Tristan Rhys Williams: "Kapur", winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2009[3] Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Jazz Style Gwilym Simcock: Contours Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, nor Stone Claudia Molitor: Alert Benjamin Cox: In Memoriam[4] Evis Sammoutis: Night, again, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Sasha Siem: From the White Dictionary, winner of the RPS Composition Prize Tom Arthurs: And Distant Shore, winner of the RPS Composition Prize

References

1. "Commissions - General". RPS. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
2. "List of Commissions". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
3. "Commissions Since 1813 (2005 - 2009)". royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk. London: Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
4. "Benjamin Cox". Mandy. London: The Mandy Network. About me. Retrieved 31 December 2015.