Talk:George Alexander Macfarren

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The overture's actual title is Chevy Chace  with no "s", so I corrected this. Smyslov 16:52, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Banister's (incomplete) list of Macfarren's symphonies
From Banister's index, page 417- symphonies in C major (no. 1, premiered 1830), C♯ minor (no. 7), D major (sometime before the E minor - no. 3 or no. 5?), D minor (no. 2, premiered 1831), E minor (prob. no. 6, premiered in 1874), and F minor (no. 4, premiered 1834). Missing one. (edit: to which Worldcat adds an A minor symphony premiered in 1839, in manuscript. Let's see. 1830, 1831, ?, 1834, 1839, 1874, no. 7. D major is probably no. 3. That may complete the list, then! ) Schissel | Sound the Note! 12:55, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Banister does refer to the E minor as "the sixth or seventh" of MacFarren's symphonies so the question was open even then... interesting. Perhaps some were in manuscript and inaccessible to him. Brown & Stratton (British musical biography, 1897) give this list (somewhat modified by me of course): No.1 in C minor (1828), No.2 in D minor, No.3 in F minor (recorded as no.4), No.4 in A minor (1834), No.5 in B♭, No.6 in C♯ minor (recorded as no.7), no.7 in D, no.8 in E minor (premiered 1874). Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:14, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

His "Chevy Chace" Overture
I am guessing that that has something to do with "The Ballad of Chevy Chase"?

Is that correct? Varlaam (talk) 18:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)