Major Barbara

music for the film

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:
1940–1

Film First Shown:
21 March 1941. Savoy, Nassau, the Bahamas.

Film Personnel:
Producer/Director: Gabriel Pascal
Screenplay: From the play by George Bernard Shaw
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Deborah Kerr
Musicians: London Symphony Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conductor
Studio: D & P Studios

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C41

Instrumentation:

Walton's exact instrumentation is unknown.

Manuscript:

There is no known surviving manuscript of this score.

Publication:

This music was never published.

Arrangements:

Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence, for orchestra, arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1988.

Recordings:

Apart from the film, this music has only been recorded in the arrangement listed above.

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Film Music