Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde

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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

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

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Grant Foster The Ballad of Reading Gaoltenor and piano2012premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Andrew Goodwin and Mira Yevtich [1]
Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer Each Man Kills The Thing He Lovessong1989
Jacques Ibert La Ballade de la geôle de Readingballet1920published in a version by Ibert for piano duet in 1924
King Charles Wilde Lovesong2012Off the Loveblood CD, the song contains several verses from the poem in the chorus
Donald Swann The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cyclesong cycle1991Swann 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 Godchoral19864-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 musicin 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

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

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Tomlinson Griffes Les Ballonssongc. 1912Griffes composed a song to this text in c. 1912, revising it in 1915. It was published in 1986. [3]

The Birthday of the Infanta

Short story

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
John Alden Carpenter The Birthday of the Infantaballet1919
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Birthday of the Infanta, Op. 115ballet1942premiered New Orleans, 1947; an orchestral suite was produced in 1944
Wolfgang Fortner Die weisse Rose (The White Rose)ballet1949–50 [4]
Elisabeth Lutyens The Birthday of the Infantaballet1932
Miklós Radnai Az infánsznö születésnapja (The Birthday of the Infanta)ballet1918premiered Budapest Opera House, 26 April 1918
Franz Schreker Der Geburtstag der Infantinballet-pantomime1908rev. as Spanisches Fest, 1923
Franz SchrekerSpanisches Fest (Spanish Festival)ballet-pantomime1923revised version of Der Geburtstag der Infantin, 1908
Bernhard Sekles Der Zwerg und die Infantin (The Dwarf and the Infanta), Op. 22ballet1913
Alexander von Zemlinsky Der Zwerg  (The Dwarf), Op. 17opera1919–21libretto 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 ZítekO růzi (On the Rose)ballet1941–42Zítek 1894–1955 [5]

The Canterville Ghost

Short story (1887)

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
George Bassman The Canterville Ghost film score 1944 [2]
Alexander Knaifel The Canterville Ghost opera1966
Jaroslav Křička Bily pan (The Gentleman in White), Op. 30opera1927–292 acts, with libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budin; a 3-act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931
Jaroslav KřičkaSpuk im Schloss, oder Böse Zeiten fur Gespensteropera19313 acts; a revised version of his 2-act 1929 opera Bily pan
Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville  [ de ]television opera1964telecast by ZDF, Mainz
Sergei Vasilenko The Garden of Death ("after Oscar Wilde"), Op. 13 symphonic poem 1907–08Vasilenko'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]
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De Profundis

Letter

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Frederic Rzewski De Profundisspeaking pianist1992The pianist speaks and sings excerpts from Wilde's letter [9]
Larry Sitsky De Profundis. Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculusmonodramac. 1982Wilde's words arranged into a libretto by Gwen Harwood; for baritone, two string quartets and one percussion player [10]

Endymion

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Joseph Horovitz Endymionsolo voice and chorus1985soprano and chamber choir [2]

E Tenebris

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Erwin Schulhoff E tenebris, Op. 15, No. 3song1914No. 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

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.

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Sergei Prokofiev Maddalena , Op. 13opera1911–131 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. 16opera1915–16trans. 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

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

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes La Fuite de la Lunesong1912Griffes 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

Short story

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Renzo Bossi Il Principe felice, Op. 52 radio opera 19501 act; broadcast 11 October 1951, RAI; libretto by Bossi after Wilde
Henry Hadley The Golden Prince, Op. 69 cantata 1914Soprano, baritone, SSAA chorus, orchestra; libretto by D. Stevens after Wilde; presented New York 1914 [12]
Bernard Herrmann The Happy Princemusic for a narration1945for a recording of the story spoken by Bing Crosby and Orson Welles, with an orchestra conducted by Victor Young
Malcolm Williamson The Happy Princeoperac. 19651 act; libretto adapted by the composer
Luis de ArquerThe Happy PrincePiano- Music for a Journeyc. 2000
Stephen DeCesareThe Happy PrinceMusical Theatre (published at MTA Publishing)c. 2013www.mtapublishing.com

The Harlot's House

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Ronald Stevenson The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wildechamber1988Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion
Donald Swann The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cyclesong cycle1991Swann 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

Play

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Arthur Benjamin An Ideal Husband film score 1947 [2]
Edison Denisov An Ideal Husband film score 1980 [13]

The Importance of Being Earnest

Play

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Erik Chisholm The Importance of Being Earnestopera1963
Vivian Ellis Half in Ernestmusical1958 [2]
Benjamin Frankel The Importance of Being Earnest film score 1952
Lee Pockriss, Anne Croswell Ernest in Love musical1960
Gerald Barry The Importance of Being Earnest opera2011 [14]

Impression du matin

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes Impression du matinsong1915Griffes 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

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes Le Réveillonsong1914Griffes 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

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes Le Jardinsong1915Griffes 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

Play

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Noël Coward After the Ball play with music1954play adapted by Coward, who also wrote the music [2]

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Short story

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Geoffrey Bush Lord Arthur Savile's Crimeopera1972premiered London, Guildhall School of Music, 5 December 1972
Edwin Carr Lord Arthur Savile's Crimeopera19911 act, 8 scenes
Alexandre Tansman Flesh and Fantasy film score 1943only the 2nd part of the 3-part film is based on Wilde's story [2]

Madonna mia

Poem. Included in his collection Rosa Mystica.

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Erwin Schulhoff Madonna mia, Op. 15, No. 1song1914No. 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

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes La Mersong1916Griffes 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

Story

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Renzo BossiRosa rossa (Red Rose), Op. 18opera1910also 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 Roseopera1927only an orchestral suite survives [12]
Elena Firsova The Nightingale and the Rose , Op. 46chamber opera1990–91to 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 Roseballet1927 [12]
Margaret GarwoodThe Nightingale and the Roseopera1973 [12]
Henry Hadley The Nightingale and the Rose, Op. 54 cantata 1911soprano 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 HannayThe Nightingale and the Rosestage and mixed media1986 [12]
Janis KalninsThe Nightingale and the Roseballet1938 [12]
Jan Müller-Wieland The Nightingale and the Rosechamber opera19961 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 ballet2007
Jonathan RutherfordThe Nightingale and the Roseopera1966 [12]
Friedrich VossThe Nightingale and the Roseballet1961staged Oberhausen 1962 [12]
Saltatio Mortis Nachtigall und RoseMedieval metal2011 [16]
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh The Nightingale & The Rose Jazz composition2006 [17]

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Novel (1890)

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Boris Arapov The Picture of Dorian Grayballet1971
Lowell Liebermann The Picture of Dorian Gray opera199612 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 Grayopera3 acts; performed at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music 11 September 2019; unpublished
Hans SchaeubleDorian Gray, Op. 32opera1947–48
Herbert Stothart The Picture of Dorian Gray film score 1945
Stephen DeCesareThe Picture of Dorian Graymusical theatre2005Published at MTA Publishing - mtapublishing.com
Randy BowserDorian - the Remarkable Mister Graymusical theatre2008Premiered in Salem, Oregon, in 2008; produced in Russian in Moscow, at the Stas Namin Theatre. [18] [19]

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Requiescat

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]

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
George Butterworth Requiescatsong1911
Luigi Dallapiccola Requiescatchoral1957–58Chorus and orchestra; the text includes Wilde's poem as well as words taken from the Gospel of Matthew and James Joyce [11]
Otto Luening Requiscatsong1917 [11]
George Frederick McKay Requiescatsong1932 [11]
Ned Rorem Requiescatvocal1997Set 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. 2song1914Set 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 Requiescatsong1932 [21]
Raymond Wilding-White Requiescat [20]

La Sainte Courtisane

Play (fragment; 1893)

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny La sainte courtisanemusical scene19304 speakers and chamber orchestra; premiered Dessau, 24 October 1930

Salome

Play

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Henry Hadley Salome, Op. 55 symphonic poem 1905this 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. 54opera1905trans. Hedwig Lachmann; premiered Dresden 1905. This opera is by far the best known musical adaptation of a work of Oscar Wilde.
Antoine Mariotte Salomé opera1905premiered 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

Short story

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Eric Coates The Selfish Giant – A Phantasyorchestra1925 [23]
Dan GoellerThe Selfish Giantorchestra2011Official 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		opera19341 act; libretto by László Márkus and Jenő Mohácsi after the story by Wilde
Graeme Koehne The Selfish Giantballet1983choreography by Graeme Murphy [26]
Jim and Dee PattonThe Selfish Giant Rock opera 2008Official Website [27] Performed by Bongo And the Point [28]
Stephen DeCesareThe Selfish GiantMusical theatre2010Published by MTA Publishing – www.mtapublishing.com [29]

Sonnet on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Malcolm Williamson Sonnet: On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel chorus a cappella c. 1969 [30]

The Sphinx

Poem

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

Symphony in Yellow

Poem

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Charles Griffes Symphony in Yellowsong1912Griffes 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

Song

ComposerTitleGenreYearNotes
England (band): Martin Henderson, Frank Holland, Jode Leigh, Robert WebbPoisoned YouthProgressive Rock1977From the album "Garden Shed"

Unclassified

ComposerTitleGenreDateNotes
Pierre Capdevielle Deux Apologues d'Oscar Wilde
(Two Moral Stories of Oscar Wilde)		 recitation for voice and orchestra1930–32
Francis George Scott Idyllsongunpublished

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