Stanley Bate

Stanley Bate (December 12, 1911 - October 19, 1959) was an English composer and pianist.

Bate received early training in music and had composed two operas by age twenty. He studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin, and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Berlin with Paul Hindemith. He wrote incidental music for performances at German playhouses, and toured Australia and the United States as a pianist. After several years living in America, he returned to London; he received less praise in his birth country than abroad, and the lack of attention his works received resulted in his decision to commit suicide in 1959.

Bate's works are influenced by Hindemith, Vaughan Williams, and William Walton.

Works

Dramatic

;Operas
*The Forest Enchanted, 1928
*All for the Queen, 1929–30

;Ballets
*Eros, 1935
*Goyescas, 1937
*Juanita (mime-ballet), 1938
*Cap over Mill, op.27, 1939
*Perseus, op.26, 1939
*Dance Variations, op.49, 1944–6
*Highland Fling, 1946
*Troilus and Cressida, op.60, 1948

;Incidental music
*Electra (Sophocles), 1938
*Bodas de Sangre (Federico García Lorca), ca. 1938
*The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov), ca. 1938
*Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), ca. 1938
*The White Guard, ca. 1938
*The Patriots (S. Kingsley), 1944

;Music for films
*The Fifth Year, 1944
*Jean Helion, 1946
*The Pleasure Garden, 1952–3
*Light through the Ages, 1953

Instrumental

;Orchestral
*Concertante, op.24, 1936–8
*Concertino, op.21, 1937
*Symphony no.2, op.20, 1937–9
*Sinfonietta no.1, op.22, 1938
*Piano Concerto no.2, op.28, 1940
*Symphony no.3, op.29, 1940
*Violin Concerto. no.2, op.42, 1943
*Sinfonietta no.2, op.39, 1944
*Viola Concerto, op.46, 1944–6
*Haneen, op.50, 1944
*Pastorale, op.48a, ca. 1946
*Violin Concerto no.3, op.58, 1947–50
*Piano Concerto no.3, op.66, 1951–2
*Concerto grosso, 1952
*Harpsichord Concerto, 1952–5
*Cello Concerto, 1953
*Symphony no.4, 1954–5
*Piano Concerto no.4, ca. 1955
*Piano Concerto no.5, 1958

Chamber music

*Sonata, op.11, 1937
*5 Pieces, op.23, ca. 1937
*Sonatina, op.12, 1938
*String Quartet no.2, op.41, 1942
*Sonata no.1, op.47, 1946
*Sonata, op.52, 1946
*Fantasy, op.56, 1946–7
*Recitative, op.52a, 1946–7
*Pastorale, op.57, ca. 1947
*Sonata no.2, 1950

Piano

*6 Pieces for an Infant Prodigy, op.13, ca. 1938
*2 Sonatinas, op.19, 1939–41
*Romance and Toccata, op.25, 1941
*Sonatinas nos.3–9, opp.30–6, 1942–3
*Overture to a Russian War Relief Concert, op.37, ca. 1943
*3 Pieces, op.38, 1943
*Sonata no.1, op.45, 1943
*Suite, op.44, 1943
*3 Mazurkas, op.38a, 1944
*Sonata no.2, op.59, 1947
*Sonata no.3, op.62, 1949
*17 Preludes, op.64, 1949
*Prelude, Rondo and Toccata, 1953

Vocal

*Incantations (E. Jolas), op.48
*4 Songs (A.E. Housman), op.51, 1945
*Pomes Penyeach (James Joyce), op.53, 1946
*3 Songs (C. Day-Lewis, E. Sitwell, Joyce), op.55, 1946
*3 Songs (Hilaire Belloc), op.61, 1947–8
*6 Songs (S. Smith), 1952

References

*Michael Barlow, "Stanley Bate". "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" online.