M.J. Retford

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Biography

M.J. Retford (d. December 1923) was a British composer and arranger.

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Works for Winds

• Always Ready Galop
• Amour Waltz (as arranger) (1902)
• The Barber of Seville (as arranger)
• Bill Bailey March (1905)
• Coburg
• Dream Pictures (as arranger)
• Eton Boating Song (as arranger)
• Florodora Second Selection (as arranger)
• Four Humoreskes (as arranger)
• Humming Bird (as arranger)
• If I Had the World to Give (as arranger) (1911)
• Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (as arranger) (1911)
• Nirvana (as arranger) (1907)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 2 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 3 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1907/2000)
• Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 4 (as transcriber; ed. Reed) (1907/2000)
• Post Horn Galop (as arranger) (1907)
• Quarto Sitio de Bilbao
• Risurrezione (as arranger) (1906)
• Sail Away (1903)
• Selections from "Adriana Lecouvreur" (as arranger) (1902/1905)
• Snake-Charmer (as arranger) (1911)
• Sussex by the Sea (as arranger) (1907)
• Twilight Dreams (as arranger)
• Zampa Overture (as arranger) (1831)

Resources

• Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "M.J. Retford." Accessed 4 December 2020