Genre | Date of composition | Title | Musical forces | First performance details | Notes | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference |
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Opera | 1946–52 | The Midsummer Marriage | Voices and orchestra | 27 January 1955: London. Royal Opera House cond. John Pritchard | Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. See also "Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage" in orchestral works | [1] |
Opera | 1958–61 | King Priam | Voices and orchestra | 29 May 1962: Coventry. Coventry Theatre. Royal Opera House chorus & orch. cond. John Pritchard | Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. | [2] |
Opera | 1966–69 | The Knot Garden | Voices and orchestra | 2 December 1970: London. Royal Opera House cond. Colin Davis | Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. | [3] |
Opera | 1973–76 | The Ice Break | Voices and orchestra | 7 July 1977: London. Royal Opera House cond. Colin Davis | Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. | [3] |
Opera | 1985–88 | New Year | Voices and orchestra | 27 October 1989: Houston, Texas. Houston Grand Opera cond. John DeMain | Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. Orchestral Suite 1989. | [1][2] |
Orchestral | 1938–39 | Concerto for Double String Orchestra | Orchestra | 21 April 1940: London. South London Orchestra (Morley College) cond. Michael Tippett | Dedicated "to Jeffrey Mark" | [7] |
Orchestral | 1944–45 | Symphony No. 1 | Orchestra | 10 November 1945: Liverpool. Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Malcolm Sargent | [3] |
Orchestral | 1946 | Little Music for Strings | String Orchestra | 9 November 1946: London. Jacques Orchestra cond. Reginald Jacques | Written for 10th anniversary of Jacques String Orchestra | [3] |
Orchestral | 1948 | Suite in D: Birthday Suite for Prince Charles | Orchestra | 15 November 1948: London. BBC broadcast, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Adrian Boult | BBC commission to mark Prince Charles's birth. Revised in 1983 by Brian Bowen | [3] |
Orchestral | 1952 | Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage | Orchestra and optional chorus | 13 February 1953: Basel. Basler Kammerorchester cond. Paul Sacher | Dedicated "to Walter Goehr" | [3] |
Orchestral | 1953 | Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Composite work: second variation, "Lament" by Tippett) | Small Orchestra | 16 June 1953: London. BBC broadcast, orchestra cond. Benjamin Britten | Variations by six composers. First public performance Aldeburgh Festival, 20 June 1953 | [4] |
Orchestral | 1953 | Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli | String orchestra | 29 August 1953: Edinburgh. BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Michael Tippett | Edinburgh Festival celebration of tercentenary of birth of Arcangelo Corelli | [13] |
Orchestral | 1953–54 | Divertimento on Sellinger's Round | Chamber orchestra | 5 November 1954: Zürich. Collegium Musicum Zürich cond. Paul Sacher | Commissioned by, and dedicated to, Paul Sacher | [13] |
Orchestral | 1956–57 | Symphony No. 2 | Orchestra | 5 February 1958: London. BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Adrian Boult | Dedicated "to John Minchinton" | [2] |
Orchestral | 1962 | Incidental Music; The Tempest | Orchestra | 29 May 1962: London. Old Vic production; music directed by John Lambert | [16] |
Orchestral | 1962–63 | Concerto for Orchestra | Orchestra | 28 August 1963: Edinburgh. London Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis | Written in celebration of Benjamin Britten's 50th birthday and dedicated to him | [16] |
Orchestral | 1966 | "Braint" (last of Severn Bridge Variations, a composite work) | Orchestra | 12 January 1967: Swansea. BBC Training Orchestra cond Sir Adrian Boult | One of 7 variations on a trad. Welsh melody, each by a different composer | [3] |
Orchestral | 1970–72 | Symphony No. 3 | Soprano and orchestra | 22 June 1972: London. Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis | Dedicated "to Howard Hartog" | [3] |
Orchestral | 1976–77 | Symphony No. 4 | Orchestra | 6 October 1977: Chicago. Chicago Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Georg Solti | Dedicated "to Ian Kemp" | [5] |
Orchestral | 1988 | Water Out of Sunlight | Orchestra | 15 June 1988: London. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields cond. Neville Marriner | Orchestral arrangement by Meirion Bowen of String Quartet No. 4 (1977–78) | [2][6] |
Orchestral | 1991–93 | The Rose Lake | Orchestra | 19 February 1995: London. London Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis | Premiered at a Tippett 90th birthday celebration concert | [7] |
Concertante | 1939–41 | Fantasia on a Theme of Handel | Piano and orchestra | 7 March 1942: London. Phyllis Sellick, London Symphony Orchestra cond. Walter Goehr | Dedicated "to Phyllis Sellick" | [7] |
Concertante | 1953–55 | Piano Concerto | Piano and orchestra | 30 October 1956: Birmingham. Louis Kentner, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Rudolf Schwarz | Dedicated "to Evelyn Maude" | [13] |
Concertante | 1978–79 | Triple concerto for violin, viola and cello | Violin, viola, cello and orchestra | 22 August 1980: London. György Pauk, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, London Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis | Dedicated "to Herbert and Betty Barrett" | [5] |
Choral | 1939–41 | Oratorio: A Child of Our Time | SATB soloists, choir and orchestra | 19 March 1944: London. Joan Cross, Margaret MacArthur, Peter Pears, Roderick Lloyd, London Regional Civil Defence Choir, Morley College Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Walter Goehr | Text by Michael Tippett, who in 1958 arranged the five spirituals for unaccompanied chorus. | [7] |
Choral | 1942 | Two Madrigals for unaccompanied chorus: "The Source" and "The Windhover" | SATB chorus | 17 July 1943: London. Morley College Choir cond. Walter Bergmann | Settings of poems by Edward Thomas and Gerard Manley Hopkins | [7] |
Choral | 1943–44 | Motet: Plebs Angelica | Double choir | 16 September 1944: Canterbury. Fleet Street Choir cond. T. B. Lawrence | Commissioned by Canterbury Cathedral and dedicated to the cathedral's choir | [7] |
Choral | 1944 | Motet: The Weeping Babe | Soprano and SATB choir | 24 December 1944: London. BBC broadcast, BBC Singers cond. Leslie Woodgate | Setting of poem by Edith Sitwell. Dedicated "in memory of Bronwen Wilson" | [3] |
Choral | 1956 | Four Songs from the British Isles: "Early One Morning"; "Lillibullero"; "Poortith cauld"; "Gwenllian" | Unaccompanied SATB chorus | 6 July 1958: Royaumont Abbey, France. London Bach Group cond. John Minchinton | Performed at the 1958 Royaumont Festival | [8] |
Choral | 1956 | "Over The Sea To Skye" | Unaccompanied SATB chorus | 31 July 2003: Dublin. National Chamber Choir of Ireland conducted by Celso Antunes | Work lost after 1956, rediscovered 2002 | [32] |
Choral | 1958 | Cantata: Crown of the Year | SSA chorus; recorders or flutes, oboe, clarinet, cornet or trumpet, string quartet, percussion, handbells and piano | 25 July 1958: Bristol. Badminton School choir and ensemble, cond. Michael Tippett | Composed for the Badminton School centenary | [8] |
Choral | 1958 | Hymn tune: Wadhurst (setting for "Unto the hills around", by John Campbell) | Written at the request of The Salvation Army | [8] |
Choral | 1960 | "Music" (Shelley poem) | Unison voices, strings and piano (or voices and strings) | 26 April 1960: Tunbridge Wells. Choirs of East Sussex and West Kent Choral Festival, cond. Trevor Harvey | [8] |
Choral | 1961 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis | SATB chorus and organ | 13 March 1962: Cambridge. St John's College Chapel Choir cond. George Guest | Composed for the 450th anniversary of the foundation of St John's College, Cambridge | [16] |
Choral | 1962–65 | The Vision of Saint Augustine | Baritone solo, chorus and orchestra | 19 January 1966: London. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Michael Tippett | Commissioned by BBC | [16] |
Choral | 1965–70 | The Shires Suite | Chorus and orchestra | 8 July 1970: Cheltenham. Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra cond. Michael Tippett | Written for the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra | [9] |
Choral | 1980–82 | Oratorio: The Mask of Time | SATB soloists, chorus and orchestra | 5 April 1984: Boston. Faye Robinson, Yvonne Minton, Robert Tear, John Cheek, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Colin Davis | Commissioned for 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra | [5] |
Vocal | 1943 | Cantata: Boyhood's End | Tenor and piano | 5 June 1943: London. Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) | Text by W. H. Hudson | [7] |
Vocal | 1950–51 | Song cycle: The Heart's Assurance | Solo high voice and piano | 7 May 1951: London. Peter Pears (tenor) and Benjamin Britten (piano) | Setting of poems by Sidney Keyes and Alun Lewis. Dedicated "in memory of Francesca Allinson (1902–45)" | [3] |
Vocal | 1952 | Madrigal for five voices: "Dance, Clarion Air" | Two sopranos, alto, tenor, bass | 1 June 1953: London. Golden Age Singers and the Cambridge University Madrigal Society cond. Boris Ord | Text by Christopher Fry. From A Garland for the Queen, a collection of madrigals by various composers, marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II | [10] |
Vocal | 1956 | Bonny at Morn (folksong arrangement) | Unison voices, recorder accompaniment | April 1956 | Written for 10th anniversary of the International Pestalozzi Children's Village at Trogen | [10] |
Vocal | 1959 | Lullaby for Six Voices | Six voices, alternately for alto solo and small SSTTB choir | 31 January 1960: London. Deller Consort | Written for the Deller Consort's 10th anniversary | [8] |
Vocal | 1960 | Words for Music Perhaps | Speaking voice and chamber ensemble | 8 June 1960: London. BBC broadcast, ensemble conducted by Michael Tippett | Poem by W. B. Yeats | [11] |
Vocal | 1961 | Songs for Achilles | Tenor and guitar | 7 July 1961: Aldeburgh. Peter Pears (tenor), Julian Bream (guitar) | Sung at Aldeburgh Festival 1961 | [11] |
Vocal | 1962 | Songs for Ariel | Solo voice, piano or harpsichord | 21 September 1962: London. Grayston Burgess and Virginia Pleasants | Adapted from The Tempest suite (1962); rearranged in 1964 for voice and small instrumental ensemble | [11][32] |
Vocal | 1970 | Songs for Dov | Tenor and small orchestra | 12 October 1970: Cardiff. Gerard English, London Sinfonietta cond. Michael Tippett | Dedicated "to Eric Walter White" | [9] |
Vocal | 1988–90 | Byzantium | Soprano and orchestra | 11 April 1991: Chicago. Faye Robinson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Georg Solti | [12] |
Vocal | 1995 | Caliban's Song | Baritone and piano | 26 November 1995: London. BBC broadcast, David Barrell (bar), and Iain Burnside (piano) | Adapted from The Tempest Suite (1962) | [32] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1934–35 | String Quartet No. 1 | Violin (2), viola, cello | 9 December 1935: London. Brosa Quartet | Dedicated "to Wilfred Franks". Revised in 1943 | [13] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1936–38 | Piano Sonata No. 1 | Piano | 11 November 1938: London. Phyllis Sellick | Dedicated "to Francesca Allinson" | [14] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1941–42 | String Quartet No. 2 in F Sharp | Violin (2), viola, cello | 27 March 1943: London. Zorian Quartet | Dedicated "to Walter Bergmann" | [14] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1945–46 | String Quartet No. 3 | Violin (2), viola, cello | 19 October 1946: London. Zorian Quartet | Dedicated "to Mrs Mary Behrend" | [3] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1946 | "Preludio al Vespro di Monteverdi" | Solo organ | 5 July 1946: London. Geraint Jones | Dedicated "for Geraint Jones" | [3] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1954 | Four Inventions for recorders | Treble and descant recorders | 1 August 1954: London. Society of Recorder Players | [10] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1955 | Sonata for Four Horns | French horns | 20 December 1955: London Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble | [10] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1962 | Piano Sonata No. 2 | Piano | 3 September 1962: Edinburgh. Margaret Kitchin | Dedicated "to Margaret Kitchin" | [11] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1962 | Praeludium | Brass, bells and percussion | 14 November 1962: London. BBC Symphony Orchestra (sections) cond. Antal Doráti | Composed for 40th anniversary of the BBC | [11] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1962–63 | "Mosaic" | Wind band | Setting of first movement of Concerto for Orchestra (1962–63) | [32] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1964 | Prelude, Recitative and Aria | Flute, oboe and harpsichord or piano | February 1964: London. BBC broadcast, Orion Trio | Arrangement of Hermes’ aria "O Divine Music" from King Priam (1958–61) | [32] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1971 | In Memoriam Magistri | Flute, clarinet and string quartet | 17 June 1972: London. London Sinfonietta cond. Elgar Howarth | Commissioned by Tempo magazine in memory of Igor Stravinsky (died 6 April 1971) | [9] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1972–73 | Piano Sonata No. 3 | Piano | 26 May 1973: Bath. Paul Crossley | Dedicated "to Anna Kallin" | [9] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1977–78 | String Quartet No. 4 | Violin (2), viola, cello | 20 May 1979: Bath. Lindsay String Quartet | Dedicated "to Michael Tillett, colleague and friend". For orchestral version see Water Out of Sunlight (1988) | [5] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1982–83 | The Blue Guitar | Solo guitar | 9 November 1983: Pasadena, Ca. Julian Bream | Dedicated "to the memory of Calvin Simmons (1950–82)" | [5] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1983–84 | Piano Sonata No. 4 | Piano | 14 January 1985: Los Angeles. Paul Crossley | Dedicated "to Michael Vyner" | [67] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1985 | A Vision of the Island (adaptation of The Tempest incidental music) | Speakers, four male voices, chamber ensemble | 25 October 1985: London. BBC broadcast, members of Taverner Consort and Nash Ensemble cond. Andrew Parrott | [67] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1990–91 | String Quartet No. 5 | Violin (2), viola, cello | May 1992: Sheffield. Lindsay Quartet | [15] |
Chamber/ Instrumental | 1991 | Prelude: Autumn | Oboe and piano | [2] |
Brass Band | 1943 | Brass Fanfare No. 1 | Four horns, three trumpets, three trombones | 21 September 1943: Northampton. Band of the Northamptonshire Regiment | Commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton | [14] |
Brass Band | 1953 | Brass Fanfares Nos 2 and 3 | No. 2 (four trumpets); No. 3 (three trumpets) | 6 June 1963: St Ives, Cornwall. Trumpeters from RAF Mawgan | [10] |
Brass Band | 1980 | Brass Fanfare No. 4: Wolf Trap | Three trumpets, two trombones and tuba | 29 June 1980: Wolf Trap, Virginia. Members of National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, cond. Hugh Wolff | [5] |
Brass Band | 1983 | Festal Brass with Blues | Brass band | 6 February 1984: Hong Kong. Faery Engineering Band. cond. Howard Williams | [16] |
Brass Band | 1987 | Brass Band Fanfare No. 5 | 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion | June 1987: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble cond. Elgar Howarth | Arranged by Meirion Bowen from The Mask of Time | [2][17] |
Brass Band | 1987 | Triumph | Concert band: Brass, woodwind and percussion | Commissioned by The New England Conservatory, Baylor University, University of Michigan, Florida State University, Ohio State University and Cincinnati Conservatory | [2][17] |
The following works are listed by Kemp as (a) works or fragments whose manuscripts have survived and (b) works whose manuscripts are lost but of which there is a record of public performance.[13]
1. ^{{cite news|authorlink= Donal Henahan|last= Henahan|first= Donal|title= Time Traveling and Agoraphobia in Tippett Opera|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/30/arts/reviews-music-time-traveling-and-agoraphobia-in-tippett-opera.html|publisher= The New York Times|date= 30 October 1989}}
2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title= Tippett, Michael|url= http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t237/e10288?q=Michael+Tippett&search=quick&pos=3&_start=1#firsthit|publisher= The Oxford Dictionary of Music Online edition|accessdate= 26 July 2013}} {{subscription required}}
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kemp, p. 500
4. ^Reed et al, pp. 106–07
5. ^1 2 3 4 5 Kemp, p. 505
6. ^{{cite web|title= Water Out Of Sunlight|url= http://www.schott-music.co.uk/shop/1/show,42212.html|publisher= The Schott Music Shop|accessdate= 26 July 2013}}
7. ^{{cite web|last= Mangum|first= John|title= The Rose Lake|url= http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/rose-lake-michael-tippett|publisher= The Los Angeles Philharmonic|accessdate= 25 July 2013}}
8. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Kemp, p. 502
9. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kemp, p. 504
10. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kemp, p. 501
11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kemp, p. 503
12. ^{{cite journal|last= Bowen|first= Meirion|title= Tippett's Byzantium|jstor= 965645|journal= The Musical Times|volume= 132|issue= 1783|pages=438–40}} {{subscription required}}
13. ^1 Kemp, p. 498
14. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kemp, p. 499
15. ^{{cite news|title= Obituary: Sir Michael Tippett OM|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6916569/Sir-Michael-Tippett-OM.html|newspaper= The Daily Telegraph|date= 10 January 1998}}
16. ^1 2 Kemp, p. 506
17. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|title= Michael Tippett: List of Published Works|url= http://www.schott-music.com/shop/resources/673322.pdf|publisher= The Schott Music Shop|accessdate= 26 July 2013}}
18. ^Kemp, pp. 26–27
19. ^1 Kemp, p. 34