Albert Ketelbey Music Catalogue

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INTRODUCTION

Scope and presentation of information

This catalogue aims to list all British editions of Ketèlbey's music, together with details of unpublished works. A few interesting editions from continental Europe and USA are also included. The recordings listed are those made under the composer's supervision

The catalogue is divided into sections for different performing media. Within each section the works are arranged roughly chronologically by date of publication. Details are given of title, subtitle, pseudonym, publisher, copyright date, numerical section of plate number, date when a copy was deposited in the British Museum/Library, miscellaneous notes, and a single known location of material.

Chronology

Works are arranged within year-bands by publisher and plate number. Where these details are lacking or ambiguous, other factors have been taken into consideration, including date of first known performance, and the date when the British Museum received a copy under the copyright deposit legislation (normally within two years of publication). Works which cannot be assigned accurately within a year or two are listed after the chronological sequence. Works listed in Pazdírek: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur are assumed to be have been contained in publishers' catalogues not later than 1906.

Titles

Titles are given in English, except in those editions where another language is given first. Capitalization follows the standards used in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. The title information used for recordings has been standardised.

Names and pseudonyms

The composer used the form Albert W. Ketèlbey in his personal correspondence, and for most of his published music. The accent does not appear on his birth certificate, nor in his recordings made with Columbia.

He used several pseudonyms, which are shown alongside the relevant titles: A. William Aston, André de Basque, Dennis Charlton, Raoul Clifford, Geoffrey Kaye and Anton Vodorinski. He was almost certainly the pianist in the recording duo Louis and Lewis, the latter name being borrowed from his father-in-law.

Publication details

Most published works bear a copyright date, which is shown in the column marked ©. In the cases of arrangements and reprints, this does not always correspond to the actual year of publication, which is indicated in the Notes column.

Works in several different versions

Most of Ketèlbey's music can be identified as being originally for one particular performing medium, which was often later followed by arrangements. These latter are indicated in the notes column. From around 1920, however, piano and orchestral versions seem to have been prepared simultaneously, especially by Bosworth, who used their London office for piano versions and their Leipzig office for orchestral versions. It can be assumed that the orchestral version represents the composer's preferred medium for these works.

Locations

The information was checked in 1998, but some archive copies have been lost since then, in particular when Bosworth merged with Music Sales. Single locations for each edition are given, where known. In most cases an alternative location will be my own private collection. Works still available from the original publisher can be traced from the list of publishers below, but where the publisher has changed, details are given in brackets.

BBC BBC Music Library

BL British Library Music Library

BM Banks Music Publishers

BP Birmingham Public Library

LC Library of Congress

MP Manchester Public Library

MS Music Sales Ltd

MV The Music Vault

NSA National Sound Archive

PD Peter Deverill’s collection

TM Tom McCanna's collection

pub publisher's archive

The following publishers issued Ketèlbey’s music, but many no longer have archive copies.

Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew (Music Vault)

Bosworth (Music Sales)

Boosey (Boosey & Hawkes)

Curwen

Tuckwood (Music Vault)

Ashdown (Music Sales)

Francis, Day & Hunter

Hammond (Music Sales)

Hawkes (Boosey & Hawkes)

Keith Prowse (Music Vault/Banks Music Publishers)

Larway (Music Sales)

Novello (Music Sales)

Paxton (Music Sales)

Patey & Willis (Music Sales)

Presser

Rudall Carte (Boosey & Hawkes)

Schott

Trinity College of Music, published by Hammond

WE William Elkin Music Services (Music Sales)

Recordings

As Musical Director for Columbia Graphophone Company, Ketèlbey would have been responsible for many recordings issued by Columbia and Regal, even if he was not named on the label or in the company's lists. The Recordings section of this catalogue includes several recordings which lack conductor details, but were almost certainly recorded under the supervision of the composer.

His work would also have entailed making arrangements and orchestrations for recording. The Arrangements section lists a few which were attributed to him, but many of the recordings of other composers' works must surely have been selected, arranged and edited by him. Details of his other recordings can be found in the following sources:

Columbia 10" records 1904-30, by Frank Andrews (City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society, 1985)

Columbia twelve-inch records in the United Kingdom 1906-1930, by Ronald Taylor (Symposium Records, 1994)

The complete Regal catalogue (February 1914 to December 1932), by Arthur Badrock & Frank Andrews (City of London Phonographic & Gramophone Society, 1991)