HOWELLS, Herbert (Norman)
b Lydney, Gloucestershire, 17 October 1892
d London, 24 February 1983, aged ninety
In 1912 he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Ill-health cut short his first appointment as sub-organist at Salisbury Cathedral, but in 1920 he started teaching composition at the Royal College of Music and continued until the age of eighty. From 1936 to 1962 he was director of music at St Paul's Girls' School, succeeding Holst. In 1950 he was appointed King Edward VII professor of music at London University. He was made a CBE in 1953 and a Companion of Honour in 1972.
1913 (21)
Piano Concerto No 1
1914 (22)
The Tinker's Song, for two voices and piano
Variations for eleven instruments
1915 (23)
Three Dances for violin and orchestra
1916 (24)
Suite, 'The B's', for orchestra
Lady Audrey's Suite, for string quartet
Piano Quartet
1917 (25)
Elegy for viola and string quartet
Rhapsodic Quintet, for clarinet and string quartet
Suite for clarinet and piano
1917-20 (25-8)
Puck's Minuet and Merry-Eye, for orchestra
1918 (26)
Sir Patrick Spens, for chorus and orchestra
Phantasy, for string quartet
1918-20 (26-8)
Three Carol-anthems
1918-23 (26-31)
Three Sonatas for violin and piano
1922 (30)
Sine Nomine, for two voices, chorus and orchestra
Procession, for orchestra
1923 (31)
Pastoral Rhapsody, for orchestra
String Quartet, In Gloucestershire
1923 5 (31-3)
Six Choral Songs
1924 (32)
Piano Concerto No 2
1925 (33)
My Eyes for Beauty Pine, for chorus and organ
Paradise Rondel, for orchestra
1933 (41)
A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song, for voices, chorus and orchestra
1934 (42)
Pageantry, for brass band
1938 (46)
Hymnus Paradisi, for voices, chorus and orchestra
1939 (47)
Concerto for strings
1941 (49)
Four Anthems
1943 (51)
Sonata for oboe and piano 1
944 (52)
Collegium Regale, canticles for chorus Suite for strings
1946 (54)
Gloucester Canticles, for chorus
1949 (57)
Music for a Prince, suite for orchestra Sonata for clarinet and piano
A Maid Peerless, for four voices, female chorus, strings and piano
1949-58 (57-66)
Three Motets
1951 (59)
Cello Concerto (unfinished)
1954 (62)
Missa Sabrinensis, for voices, chorus and orchestra
St Paul's Canticles, for chorus
1956 (64)
An English Mass, for chorus
1958 (66)
St John's Canticles, for chorus Missa Aedis Christi, for chorus
1960 (68)
Triptych, for brass band
1961 (69)
A Hymn for St Cecilia, for chorus and orchestra
A Sequence for St Michael, for chorus
1963 (71)
Stabat Mater, cantata
1964 (72)
Motet on the Death of President Kennedy, for chorus
1968 (76)
The Coventry Mass, for chorus and organ Sarum Canticles, for chorus Winchester Canticles, for chorus
1974 (82)
Exultate Deo, for chorus and organ
1976 (84)
The Fear of the Lord, for chorus and organ Let All the World, antiphon for chorus Come My Soul, anthem for chorus Sweetest of Sweetes, anthem for chorus Howells also wrote other choral works, about forty songs, and keyboard works.