KEYBOARD WORKS

Bird wrote a large number of works for keyboard (piano solo, piano four-hands, organ, reed organ),  but accessible score are almost non-existent as are any recordings. We include (below) only          those works for which either scored or recordings are available.

PIANO SOLO

2 Pieces, 1883–4

Score: Heilbronn: C.F. Schmidt, n.d.[1899]
IMSLP

Recording: none located. 

4 Pieces, op.26, 1888

Score: Warsaw: Aleksander Rajchman, n.d.
IMSLP

Recording: none located

4 Pieces, op.33, 1890

Score: Boston: A.P.Schmidt, 1891 
IMSLP

Recording: none located

Album Leaf and Scherzando, op.35, 1891

Score: Scorser

Recording: none located

PIANO FOUR-HANDS

Three Characteristic Marches, Op. 11

Score: Breslau: Julius Hainauer, 1886
Scorser

Recording: none located

American Melodies, op.23, 1887

Score: Berlin: Paul Koeppen, 1907
IMSLP

Recording: none located

2 Poesien op. 25

Score: NY: G. Schirmer, 1888
IMSLP

Recording: none located

ORGAN SOLO

The largest recorded collections of Bird’s organ music are on cds produced by Artis Wodehouse. Some of that music has been included on Arthur Bird. Music for American Harmonium, Artis Wodehouse, organist. 

3 Oriental Sketches, op.42, 1898 (New York, 1903)

Score: NY: Schirmer, 1903
IMSLP

Recording: none located

Marcia, 1902

Score: NY: Schirmer, 1903
IMSLP

Recording: none located

Concert Fantasia, 1904

Score: NY: Schirmer, 1905       
IMSLP

Recording: none located

10 Pieces, op.37, 1897 for Harmonium

Score: IMSLP

Recording: “Improvisato,” op 37:6
 “Auf dem Lande,” op. 37:9

3 Pieces, op.39, 1898. “Intermezzo,” op 39:3

Score (on recording) 

Recording: Youtube

Music for the American Harmonium, op.44, 1902; 3 Sketches, Op. 45, 1903

(Waltz, op. 44:2; Skizzen, op. 45:1; Gavotte, op. 44:4; Skizzen, op. 45:3)

Score: none located 

Recording: Youtube