Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.
Quilter wrote mostly songs, but he wrote a few piano pieces, some orchestral pieces and some incidental music to theatrical works. There are a few chamber works, too: these are almost always arrangements of his other pieces.
I’ve known about his Children’s Overture for a long time, and was also aware of his song “Now sleeps the crimson petal” as my father used to sing it, but I have only recently “discovered” his other works.
His piano works : They are typically “English” pastoral sounding Edwardian?
They adapt well for wind ensemble
i have arranged for wind quintet:
3 English Dances Op.11 (individually and as a collection of all three)
His orchestral works:
I have also arranged
Children’s Overture (wind dectet)
and his incidental music for
As you like it (wind dectet)
At the Rainbow’s End (wind quintet)
I am also arranging some of his more popular songs for wind quintet:
Check out ALL my Quilter arrangements.