This is a list of the compositions of Malcolm Williamson. It is sorted chronologically by genre.

Operas

Ballets

Cassations

Williamson used the word cassation in the sense of a miniature opera including audience participation. He wrote ten such works, of varying complexity and duration. His primary intention was to teach children the mechanics of putting on an opera, and the idea for the pieces first came to Williamson while teaching his own children about music. Williamson had a great deal of success with these cassations, which have had performances in Britain, Australia, France, the US, and in hospitals in Tanzania and Zambia.

Orchestral works

Choral works

Works for voice

Chamber music

[the String Quartet No. 1, subtitled Winterset, which dates from 1947 to 1948, remains unpublished.]

Works for solo instruments

Scores for film and TV

Musical theatre works

Unfinished works

Williamson left a number of works unfinished at his death. These include a Strindberg-based opera Easter (with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper), a Symphony No. 8 Agamemnon (based on the poem by Dame Iris Murdoch), and sketches for a Piano Concerto No. 5, which he had hoped to write for his Australian friend, the pianist Antony Gray.

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