Symphony No. 1 (Hill)

Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Stiles 1.3.4.1 Sy1,[1] the so-called Maori Symphony, is the first symphony by Alfred Hill. Its first three movements were completed by 1898,[2] but the last movement remained unfinished. This may have been the second symphony composed in the Antipodes (the first was George Marshall-Hall's C minor completed in Melbourne in December 1892).[3] The first two movements (and maybe the fourth, if it was reconstructed correctly) of this symphony are the only symphonic movements by Hill not to be arranged from his earlier chamber music. The Finale was reconstructed by Allan Stiles, and the whole symphony got its first performance in 2007. The approximate duration is 40 minutes.

  1. ^ Allan Stiles. A Catalogue of the Music of Alfred Hill
  2. ^ Lam, Y. C. (2006, June). Analytical study of Alfred Hill’s String Quartet no. 2 in G minor (Thesis, Master of Arts). University of Otago
  3. ^ Stiles Music Publications