John Ogdon

[Ogdon]

Does anyone know where I can find John Ogdon's compositions? He's composed a ton of pieces, here is a list.

* 2 nocturnes
* 2nd valse
* 3 canons
* 3rd waltz
* 6 poems after Skryabin : for piano
* 10 nocturnes
* A garland for J.S. Le Fanu : a short opera in 4 acts
* A kaleidoscope : 10 instrumental sonatas for piano solo
* A portrait of Hitch : transcribed for piano by John Ogdon
* A voyage to Arcturus / based on the novel by David Lindsay and biblical quotations
* An English sonata : from old sketches
* An Hellenic work
* Armenian suite for orchestra
* Berceuses de chat
* Bess you is my woman
* Busoni and Egon Petri : 1 act opera / Words and music by John Ogdon
* Busoni and Egon Petri : libretto
* Cadenza to Beethoven's 2nd concerto
* Cadenza to Beethoven's third piano concerto
* Chaconne
* Collection of miscellaneous fragments
* Composition notebook
* Concertino : piano concerto no.2
* Dance suite, for piano / John Ogdon
* Don Giovanni : arr. for piano duet
* Fantasia
* Fantasia for violin and piano : Movement 3
* Fantasia for violin and piano : in 2 movements
* Five preludes for piano / John Ogdon
* Free variations
* Götterdammerung : Trauermusik / transcribed for piano by John Ogdon
* His voice did come
* Holmes preludes nos.2 & 3
* II-IX Short fantasias
* Irish pictures
* Kaleidoscope no.1
* Kaleidoscope no.2
* Kaleidoscope no.3 : 10 sonatas for piano
* Kaleidoscope no.4 & no.5 : for piano
* Kaleidoscope no.6 : Woodcuts on cinema
* Kaleidoscope no.7 : Woodcuts of television 1951-1988
* Kaleidoscope no.8 : Woodcuts of BBC Radio
* Kaleidoscope no.9a
* Kaleidoscope no.9b : Kaleidoscope of chance
* Kaleidoscope no.10
* Lullaby / transcribed for piano and treble instrument by John Ogdon
* Monodies 1-5
* Notes on Busoni, Schoenberg and Sorabji's O.C.
* Once I loved a maiden fair
* Partita
* Piano concerto No.1
* Piano sonata
* Piano sonatas 1 & 2
* Prelude to Act 3 of Siegfried
* Preludes for piano Op.25 & 32
* Requiem
* Reverie and Saltarello
* Skiathos: song : for voice / poem by Richard Buchanan-Dunlop
* Sonata Scriabinensis
* Sonata for brass quintet
* Sonata for violin solo
* Sonata no.2 for unaccompanied flute
* Sonata no.4
* Sonatina after “Amadeus”
* Sonatina, for piano
* Stabat mater
* Suite
* Suite no.1 for small orchestra : transcribed for piano
* Suite no.2
* Swanee
* Symphonic dances
* The King of Alsander : acts 1 & 2 / Text by J.E. Flecker
* The death of Scriabin : Kaleidoscope part 4
* The man I love : for 2 pianos
* Theme and variations, for piano
* Thoughts of Chairman Mao
* Transcriptions for piano of songs by George Greshwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter
* Trois petites pièces montées
* Twenty-five preludes for solo piano
* Untitled work in 3 movements for treble instrument
* Valse no.3
* Variations and fugue op.4 for piano solo
* Variations on a theme by Corelli for horn and piano

I have heard one of the waltzes and it sounded great.

[Cillian64]

Given the time period he was alive, I doubt the peices are public domain in europe, let alone canada

[Yagan Kiely]

No chance at all. None of his compositions are PD anywhere. Unless ofcourseyou cotact him and he agrees to release some one CC, you have no chance.

[sixhobbits]

John Andrew Howard Ogdon (January 27, 1937 – August 1, 1989)

Bit difficult to contact him...

[Yagan Kiely]

Whoever owns the copyright obviously.

[mikebee]

The papers came up for sale at Christie's in the 1990s, but remained unsold. His widow then passed them to the National Archives, and they are lodged with the Royal Northern College of Music, where they are available to students undertaking research.

The archive has been catalogued, and a detailed catalogue can be examined on the National Archive web-site.

From time to time published and manuscript items do come up for sale on Amazon - I think a dozen or so are listed at the moment.

[happymrjames]

7 years later ..........

if still interested, I've just put my scores on Amazon re-seller: Theme and Variations & Dance Suite