Composer Profile

Graham Powning

(1949–2020)

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Biographical information is accessible at the Australian Music Centre and the United Music & Music Publishers website.

Graham Powning was an extraordinarily prolific composer for the horn ensemble format. Powning’s entire compositional output, of which his horn ensemble works make up only a small subset, was bequeathed to Stiles Music Publications upon his death in 2020. Records held at Stiles Music Publications indicate that Powning composed eleven duets, ten trios, sixty-five quartets, one quintet, and one sextet. However, due to the sheer volume of material (the vast majority of which remains unsorted) and the recency of his passing, it has not been possible to ascertain clear data suitable for this catalogue at the time of writing. One major issue contributing to this is uncertainty about whether some of Powning’s pieces are original compositions or arrangements of existing works. To maintain consistency within this catalogue, the first two entries below list works for which sufficient data can be presented. The remainder are listed below simply as titles in collections of Unsorted works, grouped by the size of ensemble.

Horn Ensemble Works

Horn Quartet Album
Horn Quartet Album
- Horn quartet: For Clarence Mellor (1976)
- Waltzing Matilda (date unknown)
- Carillon (1999)
- Homage to Alan Mann (1998)
- Majestic March (2001)
- Woeful Waltz (2003)
- Maudlin March (2006)
- Mysterious March (2006)
- Funeral March (2001)
- Frantic Fanfare (1994)
- Botany Bay (date unknown)
- Cor Blimey (2009)
- In Memoriam Richard Merewether (1990)
1976–20094 horns
QuincorQuincorc.19815 horns
Unsorted works (duets)
Unsorted works (duets)
- Sonata for Two Natural Horns or F Horns (1993)
- Year 10 Fanfare (1996)
- Anzac Fanfare (1999)
- Filet Mignon (2002)
- Harry’s Heroes (2002)
- Feudal Fanfare (2003)
- Horns of a Dilemma (2004)
- The Mayonnaise: A Parody on the French Anthem (2004)
- For Wolfgang (2006)
- Delicate Duo (2008)
- Feral Fanfare (2009)
2 horns
Unsorted works (quartets)Unsorted works (quartets)
- Four Encores, Vol. 1 (1980)
- Three Australian Songs (1980)
- The Siegfried Scherzo (1981)
- Variations on Der Freischütz (1981)
- Variations on Semiramide (1981)
- Another Four Encores, Vol.2 (1982)
- Variations on Weber’s Hunting Chorus (1983)
- Aimez-vous Brahms? (1992)
- Where’s the Fox? (1992)
- A Hunting We Will Go (1993)
- The Furtive Fox (1993)
- Well I’ll Be Foxed! (1993)
- Heed the Hounds (1994)
- Robin the Hood (1994)
- The Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Uneatable (1994)
- Sherwood Forest Shuffle (1995)
- Eerie Echoes in the Forest (1996)
- Stop Hounding Me (1996)
- A Fugitive Fox (1998)
- Passionate Prelude (1998)
- Thames Tribute (1998)
- Valse Triste (1998)
- A Furtive Fox (1999)
- Reynard’s Requiem (1999)
- Robin Hood Rhapsody (1999)
- Tosca Treatment (1999)
- Silent Horns (2000)
- Reynard’s Requiem No.2 (2000)
- Vale Victor Borge (2000)
- Fiery Fanfare (2003)
- Take the High Road (2003)
- Majestic March (2004)
- The Mexican Horn Dance (2005)
- What’s the Time (2006)
- Woeful Waltz (2006)
- Gaudeamus (2007)
- Harmonious Horns (2010)
- Mercenaries’ March (2013)
- Minotaur’s March (2013)
4 horns
Unsorted works (sextets)
Unsorted works (sextets)
- Gaudeamus for Barry Tuckwell’s Doctoring (1994)
19946 horns
Unsorted works (trios)
Unsorted works (trios)
- Millennium March (1999)
- Feral Fanfare (2000)
- Marche Macabre: After the Fox Hunt (2000)
- Valse Lente (2002)
- ‘Ornery (2003)
- Horny Hoot (2004)
- Three Christmas Carols (2007)
3 horns