Post-War · Open Opus catalog
Harrison Birtwistle
1934 – present/unknown
Chord Barn does not yet hold an IMSLP-sourced piano score collection for Harrison Birtwistle. This page presents the composer and work catalog data published by Open Opus, a public-domain (CC0) classical-music metadata project, so the work list below is bibliographic — titles, subtitles, and genre classifications — not a set of downloadable PDF editions.
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Works by Harrison Birtwistle in the Open Opus catalog
37 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 4 Keyboard · 11 Orchestral · 14 Chamber · 6 Vocal · 2 Stage.
- 5 Distances for 5 Instruments, for wind quintetChamber
- 9 Movements, for string quartetChamber
- An Interrupted Endless Melody, for oboe and piano, "To the Memory of Janet Craxton"Chamber
- Berceuse de JeanneKeyboard
- Bogenstrich, for voice and pianoVocal
- Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, for orchestraOrchestral
- Chorale from a Toy-Shop, for 5 instrumentsChamber
- Duets for Storab, for 2 flutesChamber
- Earth DancesOrchestral
- Endless Parade, for trumpet, vibraphone, and stringsOrchestral
- Gawain's Journey, for orchestraOrchestral
- Hector's DawnKeyboard
- Hoquetus Petrus, for 2 flutes and piccolo trumpetChamber
- Linoi, for clarinet and pianoChamber
- Melancolia 1, for clarinet, harp, 2 string orchestrasOrchestral
- Meridian, for mezzo-soprano, horn, cello, chorus or 6 sopranos, and instrumental ensembleVocal
- Nenia: the Death of Orpheus, for soprano and ensembleVocal
- Night's Black Bird, for orchestraOrchestral
- Nine Settings Of Lorine Niedecker, for soprano and celloVocal
- Oockooing BirdKeyboard
- Panic, for saxophone, drum kit, and orchestraOrchestral
- Punch and Judy — OperaStage
- Refrains and Choruses, for wind quintetChamber
- Sad SongKeyboard
- Secret Theatre, for 14 instrumentsChamber
- Silbury Air, for chamber orchestraOrchestral
- String Quartet, "The Tree of Strings"Chamber
- The Cry of Anubis, for tuba and orchestraOrchestral
- The Mask of Orpheus — OperaStage
- The Shadow of Night, for orchestraOrchestral
- The Triumph of TimeOrchestral
- Three Settings Of Lorine Niedecker, for soprano and celloVocal
- Tragoedia, for chamber ensembleChamber
- Trio, for violin, cello and pianoChamber
- Verses for Ensembles, for 5 winds, 5 brass, and 3 percussionChamber
- Verses for Ensembles, for wind quintetChamber
- White and Light, for soprano and 5 instrumentsVocal