Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde
Composer Title Genre Date Notes
George Bassman The Canterville Ghost film score 1944
Alexander Knaifel The Canterville Ghost opera 1966
Jaroslav Křička Bily pan ( The Gentleman in White ) , Op . 30 opera 1927-29 2 acts , with libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budin ; a 3-act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931
Jaroslav Křička Spuk im Schloss , oder Böse Zeiten fur Gespenster opera 1931 3 acts ; a revised version of his 2-act 1929 opera Bily pan
Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville television opera 1964 telecast by ZDF , Mainz
Sergei Vasilenko The Garden of Death ( after Oscar Wilde ) , Op . 13 symphonic poem 1907-08 Vasilenko 's title is sometimes said to have come from one of Wilde 's poems , but he wrote no such poem . It comes from a passage in Chapter V of The Canterville Ghost where the character Virginia is speaking with the eponymous ghost and asks it where it sleeps . It talks about a certain garden . She whispers : You mean the Garden of Death , and it answers , Yes , Death . Wilde 's lover , Lord Alfred Douglas , whom he did not meet until 1891 , later used The Garden of Death as the title of one of his own sonnets , published in 1899 in the collection The City of the Soul
List of works -- The Canterville Ghost
Short story ( 1887 )
This is an incomplete list of music based on the works of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. In classical genres, these include operas, ballets, incidental music, symphonic poems, orchestral suites and single pieces, cantatas, and songs and song cycles. Of more recent times, some have been the subject of musicals and film scores. Some are direct settings of Wilde's words or libretti based on them, and some are wordless settings inspired by his writings.