• Name: Alan Bush
• Birthday: 12/22/1900
• Birth Place: London, England
• Died: 10/31/1995
• Period: Modern
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
Ballads (2) of the Sea, for piano, Op. 50 W
(4) Concert Studies (3) for piano, violin & cello, Op. 31
Concert-Piece for cello & piano, Op. 17
Contrapuntal Studies (3) for violin & viola, Op. 13	2002
(2) Corentyne Kwe-Kwe, for piano, Op. 75
Dialectic, for string quartet	1997
Easy Pieces (2), for cello & piano
English Suite Op 28 for string orchestra W	1986
Le quatorze juillet: esquisse, for piano, Op. 38
Letter Galliard
(2) Lyric Interlude for violin & piano, Op. 26 W	1994
Meditation on a German Song of 1848, for violin & piano, Op. 22+
Meditation, for double bass & piano, Op. 93/1
Melodies (2), for viola & piano, Op. 47
Nocturne for piano Op 46 W	1994
Phantasy for violin & piano, Op. 3	2002
Piano Quartet, Op. 5	2002
Piano Sonata, Op. 2 W
Preludes & Fugues (2) for violin & piano, Op. 108
Preludes (24) for piano, Op 84
Râga Melodies (3), for unaccompanied violin, Op. 59
Relinquishment, for piano, Op 11 W	1994
Scherzo, for double bass & piano, Op. 93/2
Serenade and Duet, for violin & piano, Op. 111
Sonata for cello & piano, Op. 120	2002
Sonatina for viola & piano, Op. 88
Song and Dance, for violin & piano, Op. 117A
Suite for piano (or harpsichord), Op. 54 W
Suite of Six, for string quartet, Op. 81	2003
Summer Valley, for cello solo with piano accompaniment, Op. 125
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21	2004
Symphony No. 2, Op. 33 ("The Nottingham")	2004
(2) Voices of the Prophets, cantata for tenor & piano, Op 41 W	1986

Bush studied at the RAM as well as philosophy and musicology at the University of Berlin. He has served as a professor of music at the RAM and as conductor to the London Labour Choral Union. A committed communist, he founded the Worker's Music Association in 1936. Bush developed a 'thematic' method of composition in which, similar to Schoenberg's 12-tone serialism, every note must be thematically significant. The series is used with a tonal structure, accompanied by or as an accompaniment to other moving, thematically composed parts. Bush gradually moved from contrapuntal style to a more sensuous, directly harmonic one. These later works also contain a national element and his political beliefs played a role in his compositional decisions. The simplifications of his style may be attributed to his sensitivity to the accessibility of his music to the general public. These ideas were expressed particularly in his later operas, such as = Wat Tyler= (1953) and =Men of Blackmoor= (1960). He has also written choral, chamber and solo vocal music. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide