Agnes Tyrrell (Brno, 20 September 1846 – Brno, 18 April 1883) was a composer and pianist of English and Czech descent.
Tyrrell was born and lived all her life in Brno, the regional capital of Moravia which was at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
She was the daughter and third child of English teacher Henry Foster Tyrrell and his Czech wife Josefina Kotulanova.
Henry had established himself among the German-speaking
community of Brno, and Agnes grew up in this environment speaking fluently English
and German, but also Czech. A child prodigy, she performed in her first piano recital at nine and attended the Vienna Conservatory
at sixteen. She studied piano with Wilhem Kunst in Brno and Josef Dachs and Adalbert Pacher in Vienna.
Her composition teachers were Brno conductors Toman and Otto Kitzler (the latter was also the composition teacher of Anton Bruckner).
Tyrrell had to give up an active pianist career due to failing health, so instead she devoted her short life to composition.
Yet, despite her large catalogue of works in almost every genre of
classical music, only a few piano compositions and an art song were published during her life.
Tyrrell's music reflects the aesthetics and style of her times. She was influenced by the music of Liszt
and Bruckner but was able to process these influences into a highly individual synthesis.
Tyrrell's autograph scores are deposited with the Moravian Land Museum Department of Music in Brno.
Below you will find a catalogue of Tyrrell's piano, chamber, and choral music published to date.
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Voglein im Walde, op. 2
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
Available from: IMSLP
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Andante, op. 6
Piano score. 8 pages
Publisher: Certosa Verlag | Körborn, 2017
Editor: Dieter M. Backes
ISMN: 979-0-50224-348-7
Catalogue No.: CV Ty2
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Eight Choruses for Mixed Choir (including 5 Gesänge für Gemischten Chor, op. 7)
Choruses. 68 pages
Includes Sommerfrühe, Sonntags am Rhein, Vorüber, Abschied, Liebestpredigt, Gebet, Mutterthränen, and Winterlied.
In: Agnes Tyrrell. Brno Composer and Her Choruses for Mixed Choir. Master's thesis, pp. 103–170. | Brno, 2019
Engraving: Blanka Snajdrova
Editor: Blanka Snajdrova
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Choruses for Mixed Choir and for Men's Choir
Fuge
für gemischten Chor a cappella / Schlaflied für
Männerchor und Klavier / Mailied für Männerchor a cappella /
Auf dem See für Männerchor a cappella /
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2023
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue Nos.: 65125 / 63035 / 63036 / 63037
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Songs: Die Liebende schreibt, Nur du, When Time Who Steals
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Short piano pieces: Landler, Marsch, Mazurka, Walzer
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Rondo for piano
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Theme and Variations, op. 8
Piano score. 8 pages
Publisher: The Kapralova Society | Toronto, 2021
Engraving: Dejan Badnjar
ISMN 979-0-9001582-2-2
Catalogue No.: KS 011
Performers may request the score by writing to: society[at]kapralova[dot]org
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Allegro di bravura, op. 9
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Impromptu I. pour le piano, op. 11
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Meg, op. 11 No. 1 for voice and piano
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Impromptu II. pour le piano, op. 12
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Mazurka, op. 15
Piano score. 7 pages
Publisher: Certosa Verlag | Körborn, 2013
Editor: Dieter M. Backes
ISMN: 979-0-50224-249-7
Catalogue No.: CV Ty2
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Vier Albumblätter, op. 18
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Lied ohne Worte für das Pianoforte, op. 23
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Wanderlied, op. 31, for voice and piano
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Impromptu Nr. 3 für das Pianoforte op. 32(a)
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Fantasiestücke Nr. 1-3
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Rhapsodien Nr. 1-2
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Sechs Charakterstücke für das Klavier op. 32(b)
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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Zwei Gesänge für Sopran I / Sopran II / Alt und Klavier op. 33
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2023
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 64014
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Streichquartett G-Dur
String Quartet in G Major
Publisher: Certosa Verlag | Körborn, 2022
Editor: Dieter M. Backes
ISMN: 979-0-50244-545-0
Catalogue No.: CV Ty4
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Abendfeier, op. 46, for voice and piano
5 pages
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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An den Mond, op. 53, for voice and piano
8 pages
Text: Goethe
Editor: Jocelyn Swigger
Typesetting: Riley Dunbar
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Grosse Sonate No. II fur das Pianoforte (Grand Sonata), op. 66
Allegro moderato – Andante – Scherzo.Molto Allegro. Trio – Allegro moderato.
Piano score. 32 pages
Publisher: The Kapralova Society | Toronto, 2021 (rev. 2022)
Engraving: Dejan Badnjar
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh (revised edition)
ISMN 979-0-9001582-3-9
Catalogue No.: KS 013
Performers may request the score by contacting society[at]kapralova[dot]org
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Clavierstück, op. 67
Piano score. A part of the collection "Ausgewählte Werke für Klavier 2-händig".
Publisher: Ries and Erler | Berlin, 2021
Editor: Kyra Steckeweh
Catalogue No.: 10148
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After 140 years of neglect, Tyrrell's music is finally being rediscovered by scholars (read this blog), musicians, publishers, and music
lovers. Listen to Tyrrell's orchestral overture to her Oratorio Die Konige in Israel and her chorus Gebet.