Stanley Harry Hawley Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire 17.5.1867 Died Ilkeston 13.6.1916
Stanley was the youngest of four children1. He remained unmarried. He received most of his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became a composer, pianist and organist and held a number of administrative posts including Hon. Secretary of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Perhaps the least fashionable genre of classical music during the last hundred years are melodramas and recitations with musical accompaniment. Hawley was quite prolific in composing these and was clearly successful. Some of the compositions were orchestrated as well as being for solo piano. Given a good actor, many of these are worth reviving as part of a chamber concert. There are recordings of some of his works.
Piano
L'ancien Regime gavotte pub. by R Cocks & Co 1895
'Colinette' mazurka pub. by R Cocks & Co
Dance Sketch No.1 pub. by Novello 1912
Dance Sketch No.2 pub. by Carper 1915
'Quinlan' pub. by Bosworth & Co
Recitation Music all published by Bosworth & Co
The Bells words by Edgar Allan Poe
Lorraine, Lorraine, Lourree. words by Charles Kingsley
Soul Music words by George Whyte-Melville
The Story of the faithful soul words by Adelaide Proctor
Riding through the broom words by George Whyte-Melville
Curfew must not ring to-night words by Ross Hartwick Thorpe
The Raven words by Edgar Allan Poe
Young Lochinvar words by Sir Walter Scott
A Ballad of Hell words by John Davidson
What my lover said words by Horace Greenly pub. by Bosworth & Co also R Cocks & Co
The Legend Beautiful words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Thin red line words by Alice C. MacDonell
In the Round Tower at Jhansi words by Christina Rossetti
Lenore words by Edgar Allan Poe
Fair Helen words- traditional
One of us two
The Birth of the Opal words by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Death Potion words by Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Legend of the east window words by Hubert Cutler
Te Deum laudamus words by Hubert Cutler
A Country Idyll words by Hubert Cutler
The Mission of Judas
Abou Ben Adham
The Song of the Shirt words by Thomas Hood
Love Lyrics - recitations
Phillida flouts me - scored for strings
Love is a sickness
Why so pale? - scored for strings
Cupid and Campaspe
The Constant Lover
Phillida and Corydon
Shepherd, what is love
My heart and thine - scored for strings
Meet we no angels
Cupid's Arrows
The Cheat of Cupid
Young Colin
The Despairing Lover
Fie, shepherd, fie!
I smile at love
Love and hope
Yes, I'm in love
Dramatic Poems all published by Novello & Co
The Necklace of Tears
The Black Heart
The Wooing of the mist
The Sisters
Magdalen
The Orphan
The Spinning Song
The Water Nymph and the Boy
The White Moth
Song for voice and piano
Tell him, blackbird
A song of farewells
Violets
Never good-bye words by W E Henley pub. by Novello & Co
True Love words by Joshua Sylvester pub. by Bosworth & Co
Love is never out of season words by Mary Maclagan pub. by Bosworth & Co
With the tide words by Eleanor Foster
If an angel
Two Things
Absence
Longing
Remembrance
Alone
The Fishing boat
The coming of the King
A Widow bird
I dreamed
Spring Song
Sleeping
If love be love
Dorothy Doone words by E Nesbit pub. by R Cocks & Co
Me and she words by E Bisland
Friend of my infinate dreams
My true love words by Sir Phillip Sidney
Choir and organ
Anthem - Withdraw not though thy mercy pub. by G Schirmer
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Edwin Flint Hawley 1853-1933
Mary Ann Hawley 1858-1938
Florence Hawley 1864- ?
Stanley Harry Hawley 1867-1916
He left an estate valued at £8.477
I'm rather fond of the "music hall" recitations with music. Some can be highly effective. I use to perform a few as part of my one-man show years ago. Unfortunately, I never performed any of Hawley's. I must explore him.
I have been contacted by an established pianist who looked at some of Hawley's works with the thought one might be useful for a charity concert. His view was that they were very insipid. I have since borrowed three of these works and though the subject matter is promising the music is very milk and water and unenspiring. I understand from both sources that Hawley was very well liked and did a good job with The Royal Philharmonic Society.