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ST CAECILIA (ST CECILIA) - LIST OF MUSIC IN HER HONOUR

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The following is a list of musical works, which are examples of those written to the glory of St Cecilia (St Caecilia) from around 600 AD until the present day. It should be noted where, in the list, alternative spellings of composers’ surnames are provided, where this applies, this is to facilitate search engines accessing this page:

Year of
Composition

 Composer Title of Work Comments   Recording Sample
1947 Finzi, Gerald For St. Cecilia This work was commissioned by the St Caecilia’s Day Festival Committee to commission a work using a poem by Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) celebrating St Cecilia. It was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 22 November 1947 with René Soames, the Luton Choral Society and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.   Listen to recording extract on this website - click here to access
1953 Vaughan Williams, Ralph Silence and Music  
1960 Howells, Herbert A Hymn for St. Cecilia  
1962 Dyson, George Live Forever, Glorious Lord! for soprano & chorus This is an estimated year of composition as the work is regarded as modern and that could be consistent, bearing in mind the age of the composer at the time.  
1966 Hurd, Michael A Song for St Cecilia  
1973 Gardner, John Eliot A Song for St Cecilia’s Day for chorus & organ, Op. 119  
1973 Bliss, Sir Arthur Sing, Mortals!, a sonnet for the Festival of St. Cecilia, for chorus & organ, F. 53  
1974 Rose, Bernard Feast Song for St. Cecilia, for chorus This is a setting a poem of the same name by Bernard Rose’s son, musician Gregory Rose.  
1975 Philips, Peter Cantantibus organis Cecilia This date of composition is an estimate and subject to correction  
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