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(music available from the Canadian Music Centre may be ordered on their website)
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Mr. Weisgarber wrote a total of 449 compositions during his 82 years many of which are not yet available to the public and will be gradually added to this list.
More details, including complete program notes, are available at the Canadian Music Centre's website.
All music is available in digitally produced printed format except those marked (Ms.) which are in the composer's manuscript.
Aki - no - Hinode (Autumn Sunrise) (1968); flute & piano; very evocative, intermediate level work; 6:00 (Canadian Music Centre)
Chamber Music for Clarinet and Violin (1944); 3:15 (Canadian Music Centre)
Diversions on an Air by Thomas Campion (1975); alto recorder & bass viol; 6:30 (Canadian Music Centre)
Divertimento No. 1 (1950); 2 violins & viola OR oboe, violin, & viola; 11:00; intermediate level; (Canadian Music Centre)
Divertimento No. 2 (1950); 2 violins & viola OR oboe (or clarinet), violin & viola; 14:00; intermediate level (Canadian Music Centre)
Divertimento No. 3; (1956); for clarinet, violin and viola; (Wiltshire Music Co)
Divertimento No. 4 (1959) for Horn, Violin and Piano; (Wiltshire Music Co.)
Eight Pieces for Recorders (1962); for combinations of soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders; 15:00 (Canadian Music Centre)
Fantasia a Tre; (1977); for horn, violin and piano; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
In Country Sleep; (1956); tenor, clarinet, violin, viola, bass, piano; 18:00; A stunning setting of Dylan Thomas' poem of the same name. Also orchestrated (see Orchestra and Soloist below). (Canadian Music Centre)
Kojo - no - Tsuki (Moon Over the Ruined Castle); (1972); flute & piano; elementary level arrangement of a famous melody by 19th C. Japanese composer Taki Rentaro; 2:30; (Canadian Music Centre)
Six Miniatures after Hokusai; (1972); 15 min.; violin & piano; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Soliloquy for Andrei Sakharov; (1990); for flute, viola, cello and piano. A one movement work of great drama and passion based on the composer's work for solo trumpet composed on the night of the death of the great Russian scientist and humanitarian.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; (1973); 16 min.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Sonata for Flute and Piano; (1963); inspired by the composer's year of study with Halsey Stevens; 30 min. (Canadian Music Centre)Sonata for Horn and Piano; (1979); 20 min.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano; (1980); 25 min.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Sonatine for flute, clarinet & piano; a delightful work which uses as one of its themes the well-known Auvergne folk-song “La-bas dans le limousin”; (Ms.); (Wiltshire Music Co.)
String Quartet #6; (1980); 27 min.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)Three Pieces for Flute and Piano; (1954); beautiful intermediate level pieces inspired by the composer's study with Nadia Boulanger; 11 min. (Canadian Music Centre)
Tsugaru Yama Uta (Tsugaru Mountain Song); (1972); flute & piano; arrangement of a Japanese folksong; 2 min. (Canadian Music Centre)
Wind Quintet; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)Winter Day's Journey, A; (1995); soprano, English horn & harp; settings of poetry from an early 13th C. Japanese anthology (in Japanese); alternate parts for alto flute, clarinet or viola may be substituted for English horn; 14:00 (Canadian Music Centre)
Canticle; (1978) 20 min.; solo low voice, SATB chorus, horn, string orchestra; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
In Bed'lam; for children's chorus and organ; medieval text; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Night; for baritone soloist, chamber chorus (SATB) and string quintet; text by Robinson Jeffers; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Songs of a Thousand Autumns; settings of poems from the Man'yo-shu; with piano; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Music for the Morning of the World; (1977); 15 min.; the composer's musical impressions of the island of Bali which was given the picturesque epithet “the morning of the world” by the great Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Ama Dablam (1994); 9:15; commissioned by the Canadian Music Competition, 1994; inspired by the magnificence of the Himalayan region; (Canadian Music Centre)
Japanese Miscellany, A, Vol. II (1968/69); the second group of short pieces that completes a set of nine. Vol. I is listed with the published works. Both sets are available through the Canadian Music Centre.
Pieces for Harpsichord (1959); 6:00; (Canadian Music Centre)
Three Teaching Pieces (1949); 9:20; moderately easy works for piano students; (Canadian Music Centre)
Kioku (originally "Journeyings and Memories") (2001) 24 min.; orchestrations by the composer of eight of the nine piano pieces in "A Japanese Miscellany" (see "Keyboard" section in this listing); written for Sinfonia of the North Shore, North Vancouver, B.C.; 1(picc.)111/2100/perc./harp/strings (Canadian Music Centre)Kyoto Landscapes (1970; rev. 1972) 32 min.; the composer's impressions of Kyoto, Japan; commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; solo voice (in 4th mvt.)/3232/2200/timpani, percussion, harp, piano/strings; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Musica Serena (1974) 9 min.; commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on the sudden death of piccoloist Conrad Crocker; 1(with picc.)111/1000/strings; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Northumbrian Elegy (1977; rev. 2000) 11 min.; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Pacific Trilogy; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)Sinfonia Pastorale (1961); 15:00 - 20:00; 1111/111/perc./harp/strings; (Canadian Music Centre)
Autumnal Music; (1973) 15 min.; English horn and orchestra; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)Canciones de Amor, del Sur y del Mar; orchestrations of 6 songs from the voice and piano collection; soprano solo/11(+Eng. hn)11/2000/harp/strings (Canadian Music Centre)
Canticle; (1978); (see Choral)Colloquies for Flute and Orchestra (1996-97) 25 min.; solo flute/0002/2000/harp/strings; 2 movements inspired by two of America's greats, Homage to Howard Hanson, a tribute to one of Weisgarber's teachers and Shenandoah ~ A Fantasia, a tribute to one of America's most beautiful melodies; piano reduction also available for both movements (Canadian Music Centre)
Concerto for Viola and Strings (1957) 15:40; solo viola/strings (Canadian Music Centre)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1974; rev. 1984) 20 min.; solo violin/2222/2000/strings; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)In Country Sleep; (1962); tenor soloist/1111/2000/timp/harp/strings; orchestrated version of Weisgarber's 1956 setting of Dylan Thomas' poem of the same name. (18:00) (Canadian Music Centre)
Omnia Exeunt in Misterium; (1993); for soprano and orchestra. settings of poetry of American poet George Sterling; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Canciones de Amor, del Sur y del Mar; (1999); 15 settings of poems from Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda; for soprano and piano; in Spanish (Canadian Music Centre)
Divine Immanence; (1996-97); 9 settings of poems by Robinson Jeffers; (Ms.)
Illusions of Mortality; (1976); 8 settings of poems by Clive Simpson (Canadian Music Centre)In Country Sleep (see Chamber Music and/or Orchestra and Soloist)
Irradiations: Eight Poems by John Gould Fletcher; (1945-1952; rev. 1998); soprano and piano; 17:30 (Canadian Music Centre)
Of Love and Time (Ai to Toki ni tsuite); (1971); 30 min.; soprano, flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello, harpsichord (or harp or piano); settings of 4 sonnets by Shakespeare translated into Japanese by Tsubouchi Shoyo; in Japanese; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Omnia Exeunt in Misterium; (1981); 22 min.; medium or high voice & piano; text by George Sterling; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Seven Poems by Robinson Jeffers; (1973; rev. 1980); medium or high voice & piano; (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Songs of Love and Nature; (1997); 3 settings of poems by Thomas Hardy; (Ms.)
Ten Japanese Folk Songs (1981); 20 min.; medium voice & harp (or celtic harp or piano); (Ms.); (Canadian Music Centre)
Vier Lieder; (1995); settings of 4 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (Herbst, An die Musik; Herbestag; Abend); in German; (Ms.)