John Foulds fut connu de son vivant « pour sa musique légère écrite à des fins alimentaires »1. Il est cependant considéré actuellement comme l’un des grands compositeurs britanniques du xixe siècle. « Il faudra attendre le milieu des années 1980 pour que la production « sérieuse » de cet avant-gardiste original, autodidacte, amateur de théosophie, passionné par l’Inde et les pratiques musicales extra-européennes, ne soient redécouvertes »1, explique un journaliste du Monde en 2008.
In some respects ahead of his time (he started using quarter-tones as early as the 1890s, while some of his later works anticipate Messiaen and Minimalism), Foulds was in others an intensely practical musician. He became a successful composer of light music – his Keltic Lament was once a popular favourite and in the 1920s the BBC scheduled his music on a daily basis. This was a source of irritation to Foulds; in 1933 he complained to Adrian Boult at the BBC that his serious music was not being performed: "[My light works] number a dozen or so, as compared with the total of 50 of my serious works. This state of affairs is rather a galling one for a serious artist."[1] Foulds also wrote many effective theatre scores, notably for his friends Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike. Perhaps the best known was the music for the first production of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (Foulds conducted a Suite from it at the Queen’s Hall Proms in 1925). He also wrote the score for Casson’s highly successful West End production of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, which ran from December 1925 to March 1926. However, his principal creative energies went into more ambitious and exploratory works, often coloured by his interest in the music of the East, especially India.
Foulds became a footnote to English music after his death, but from 1974 Malcolm MacDonald, editor of the music journal Tempo under the alias Calum MacDonald, conducted an often lonely campaign for Foulds after he came across the Foulds scores deposited in the British Library. MacDonald tracked down Foulds’ daughter, who took him to a garage and showed him two coffin-sized boxes full of sketches and manuscripts she had been left by her mother. Unfortunately, many of the manuscripts were damaged: apparently, rats and ants had got at them while they were in India, where Foulds’ wife stayed after his death.
Extract
pour: Voix solo, chœur de garçons, chœur à voix mixtes, orchestre
Réduction piano
№ d’article: 905552
Winthrop Rogers Edition of Choral Music for Festivals
pour: Chœur d'hommes (TTBB), piano [harpe]
Partition de chœur
№ d’article: 900305
pour: Voix solo, chœur de garçons, chœur à voix mixtes, orchestre
Réduction piano
№ d’article: 478555
March
pour: Orgue
Partition
№ d’article: 1214003
Music Poem op. 20
Foulds Edition
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Repertoire Explorer
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 1344980
First print
John Foulds Edition
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pour: Piano
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344791
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale piano de conducteur, partition musicale
№ d’article: 1213094
based on authentic Indian Melodies from the Collection of Maud MacCarthy
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John Foulds Edition
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pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 1344950
Oriental Nocturne
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John Foulds Edition
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pour: Orchestre de chambre
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 655611
First print
John Fouls Edition
Repertoire Explorer
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition
№ d’article: 1344475
Concerto for Wordless Solo Voice (Contralto) & Orchestra op. 50
first print
Foulds Edition
pour: Voix (alto), orchestre
Partition
№ d’article: 1344002
First print
John Foulds Edition
Repertoire Explorer
pour: Piano
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1345276
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale piano de conducteur, partition musicale
№ d’article: 1213115
Music Pictures – Group VI
pour: Piano
Partition
№ d’article: 902117
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John Foulds Edition
Repretoire Explorer
pour: Piano
Partition
№ d’article: 1344761
First printed edition
Foulds Edition
pour: Violoncelle, orchestre
Partition
№ d’article: 1344187
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John Foulds Edition
pour: Violoncelle, piano
Partition musicale piano, partition seule
№ d’article: 1344826
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John Foulds Edition
pour: 2 violons, violon alto, violoncelle (quatuor à cordes)
Conducteur, partitions seules
№ d’article: 1343941
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John Foulds Collection
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Study Score 1163
pour: 2 orchestres à cordes, percussion latine, harpe
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 1344743
First print
John Foulds Edition
Repertoire Explorer
pour: Piano, orchestre
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344706
1919–1930
First Print
John Foulds Edition
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pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale de poche (texte original)
№ d’article: 636888
Founded on Original Melodies written in the Chinese Idiom
newly engraved from the manuscript, first print
John Foulds Edition
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Study Score 1220
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale de poche (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344734
autograph score
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John Foulds Edition
pour: 2 violons, violon alto, violoncelle (quatuor à cordes)
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 1344712
First print
John Foulds Edition
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pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition musicale de poche
№ d’article: 1345028
First print
John Foulds Edition
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pour: Violon, violon alto, violoncelle (trio à cordes)
Conducteur, partitions seules (texte original)
№ d’article: 1345050
First print
John Foulds Edition
Repertoire Explorer
pour: Piano
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 616392
Monologue for Baritone with Orchestra (1932) from Shakespeare’s ‚As You Like It’
Version for baritone and piano
First printed edition
Foulds Edition
pour: Voix (baryton), piano
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344312
Music-Pictures Group II Op. 32
first time engraved / first edition
Foulds Edition
pour: 2 violons, violon alto, violoncelle (quatuor à cordes)
Conducteur, partitions seules (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344769
pour: Violon, piano
Partition musicale piano, partition seule
№ d’article: 906359
First print
Foulds Edition
pour: Piano
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344438
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Conducteur, partitions seules
№ d’article: 896672
first print
Foulds Edition
pour: 2 violons, violon alto, violoncelle (quatuor à cordes)
Conducteur, partitions seules (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344481
Hawkes School Series 13
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition piano (chef d'orchestre)
№ d’article: 908198
First printed edition
Foulds Edition
pour: Orchestre de chambre
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344398
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Parties instruments (Instruments à cordes)
№ d’article: 905344
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition
№ d’article: 897560
Intermezzo Impromptu
pour: Piano
Partition
№ d’article: 643360
pour: Violoncelle, piano
Partition musicale piano, partition seule
№ d’article: 853764
pour: Violon, piano
Partition musicale piano, partition seule
№ d’article: 897073
pour: Violoncelle, piano
Partition musicale piano, partition seule
№ d’article: 896466
First print
John Foulds Edition
Repertoire Explorer
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344246
first printed edition
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344318
Dedicated to the Memory of Joseph Joachim
First printed edition
Foulds Edition
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Partition (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344182
pour: Orchestre symphonique
Parties instruments (Instruments à vent)
№ d’article: 890796
from 'Quartetto geniale'
First print
Foulds Edition
pour: 2 violons, violon alto, violoncelle (quatuor à cordes)
Conducteur, partitions seules (texte original)
№ d’article: 1344460
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