Patrick Hadley – A Brief Bibliography

The key text to which all interested in the music of Patrick Hadley should turn is Wetherell 1997. There has been comparatively little written about the composer and his music. The bibliography given below is reasonably comprehensive.

Eric Weatherell: ‘Paddy’ The Life of Patrick Hadley’ Thames Publishers (Elkin) London 1997

Christopher Palmer: Patrick Hadley: a 70^th Birthday Tribute Musical Times cx (1969) p.260

Christopher Palmer: Patrick Hadley: The Man and His music Music and Letters Vol.55 (1974) p.151

Christopher Palmer: An English Nationalist Composer No.31 (1969) p.1

Christopher Palmer: A Note on the Church Music Musical Times cxiv (1973) p.1107

Walter Todds: Patrick Hadley: a Memoir London 1974

Peter Tranchell: Dictionary of National Biography ‘Patrick Hadley’

Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians - 1954, 1980 & 2000

Review of The Trees so High – Musical Times February 1934 p.170

Andrew Seivewright: Patrick Hadley 1899-1973 – [a short memoir] www.musicweb.uk.net/hadley/

Eric Fenby: Delius as I knew him f.p. 936, 1994 Dover Edition p.92-3, 95-6

J France

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