Henry Robert Gadsby (1842-1907) - orchestral, choral and dramatic works

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Grove:

(b Hackney, London, 15 Dec 1842; d Putney, London, 11 Nov 1907). English organist and composer. While a boy chorister in St Paul's Cathedral (1849–58) he was taught harmony by the vicar-choral, William Bayley (1810–58). He was organist of St Peter's, Brockley, for some time up to 1884, when he succeeded Hullah as professor of harmony at Queen's College, London. He was also one of the original professors at the Guildhall School of Music, a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a member of the Philharmonic Society. He also wrote some sight-singing exercises, and his treatise on harmony (1883) was probably the first published in England that departed from the system of teaching from figured bass in favour of giving melodies to be harmonized. Gadsby was one of a number of eminent musicians who sang in the choir for the open-air service at St Paul's for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897.

To enlarge upon the work-list given in Grove:

* = works for which a printed score is available for download from IMSLP - http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gadsby,_Henry_Robert

1867 - Symphony No.2 in A (Larghetto and Scherzo performed Crystal Palace, London, 11th February 1871)
1870 - Alice Brand, cantata
1872 - Overture, Andromeda (Crystal Palace, London, 22nd February 1873)
1873 - Organ Concerto in F (Crystal Palace, London, 24th January 1874)
1875 - Intermezzo and Scherzo (British Orchestral Society, London, 21st April 1875)
           Violin Concerto in F (Crystal Palace, London, 11th December 1875)
           String Quartet
1876 - Alcestis, incidental music (Cambridge University, 1876)*
1879 - The Lord of the Isles, cantata (Brighton Festival, 1879)
1881 - Columbus, cantata (Crystal Palace, London, 19th March 1881)
1886 - Orchestral Scene, The Forest of Arden (Philharmonic Society, London, 4th March 1886)*
1887-88 - Festal Symphony [No.3] in D (Crystal Palace, London, 3rd November 1888)
1890 - The Cyclops, cantata (Queen's College, Oxford, May 1890)
1893 - Andromache, incidental music
1897 - Aminta, incidental music (for the Jubilee of Queen's College, London, 1897)

also -

Psalm 130
Symphony No.1 in C
Overture, The Golden Legend
Overture, The Witch's Frolic
Harold, Festal March

Autograph scores of Symphonies 2 and 3, together with Harold are at the British Library (Music manuscripts 1862-88, Music Misc. Deposit 2004 /23), having been purchased at Bonham's in 2004.