Chorale Prelude on Wheatley

for organ

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:  The manuscript is dated 16 August 1916

First Performance:  Sunday, 17 September 1916. Cathedral Church of Christ the King, Oxford. Henry Ley organ.

C. Number:  C3

Instrumentation:

Organ solo

Manuscript:

The British Library, Manuscript Collections, Add. 52384. Titled 'Choral Prelude on Wheatley'. Dated 'August 16th. 1916'.

Publication:  This work has never been published.

Recordings:

This work has never been recorded for commercial release.  A recording was made, at the organ of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, for the Walton documentary At the Haunted End of the Day (1981), directed by Tony Palmer for ITV.

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