His output includes Ulysses (1947), a cantata on words by James Joyce and a clarinet concertino; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm (1954); a setting of the Scottish "poet and tragedian" William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale (written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals); three string quartets; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.
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Several of his students went on to become eminent musicians themselves, including Peter Racine Fricker, Don Banks, Anthony Milner, Hugh Wood, Malcolm Lipkin and Wally Stott (who later became Angela Morley).
McGonagall's poem was set to music by the composer Mátyás Seiber in 1958.
Mátyás Rákosi | Mátyás Seiber | Mátyás Korányi | Jindrich Matyas Thurn |